Cooperative Games

We have been having loads of hilarious fun cooperating with others in PE this week!

As with any 'Photo Peach' show, please add comments here instead of on the Photo peach site - thanks! Cooperative Games :)

Market Day Term 3 2014

We had a great time at Market Day today - raising$1080 that goes towards our Year 6 Camp

Sound of the Week "V"

Loads of inVestigating happened in DiscoVery today!. The sound of the week was "V" so we put our Scientists hats on and obserVed what happened when we made laVa lamps. (Click on the link to make this at home)

 We also made lava for volcanoes - one to also be tried at home using vinegar and baking soda. Red food colouring made this look even more impressive!

Argo Floats and the Argonaut Club!

Argo Floats are instruments that float around in the ocean, measuring temperature and salinity (how salty the water is). They float at a parking depth of 1000m and move with the ocean current for 9 days. On the 10th day they sink to 2000m and for the next 10 hours , take measurements all the way back to the surface. Once on top of the water, they send this info off to a satellite and sink back down to 1000m for another 9 days. Argo Floats do this for over 5 years and there are more than 3600 floats all over the world.
(More info here - Way Down South)

Google Earth has a cool application that allows you to see where all these floats are. Click here to get this.  Google Earth Argo Application 
You'll find that your Google Earth will be covered in little green dots!

We are now able to adopt Argo Floats  - hence the Argonaut Club.
We made some Cartesian divers to see how Argo Floats 'sink' and we also adopted an Argo Float. Float 5903324 is in the Southern Ocean and has travelled 292 km so far.

Te Papa Scientists visit us!

We were really fortunate to have Scott, Laura, and Sarah visit our school today. All three work at Te Papa as educators and scientists.

Scott told us how all Scientists do 3 things - they observe, they hypothesise, and the report back on their findings. He showed us how we can do this with bubbles. Although we know and love bubbles, today we learnt a lot more about them!
 

(Our own Bubble writing will feature later next week)

Laura showed us some different penguins and told us about what sort of things she does as a scientist at Te Papa.

We really enjoyed having them visit.

The NED Show

Today “The NED Show” performed at school today. Matt showed us some cool yoyo tricks and told us a really whacky story about NED’s adventure on the way to visit us.

 There was the circus, roller coasters, round-the-world travel and those crazy aliens… what a funny story with a great message behind it!

NED stands for Never give up, Encourage others and Do your best.

Yoyos are available for sale from our school office.

Water Tension and other Water Experiments

We were investigating water in Discovery Time today as this week's sound of the week was "W".

 Water tension - how many drops can a cup really hold?



Water and air
">We tried to see if molecules of air could stop paper from getting wet.

What we needed:

Small Glass

A screwed up ball of paper

Glass bowl filled with water

What we did: Put the paper in the bottom of the glass then turned the glass upside down over the bowl and lowered it in to the water. We then lifted the cup straight up out of the bowl and took the paper out.

Water going up hill! (Absorption)

It was interesting to observe that clear water travelled up to paper towel first