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

ASB Sports Centre

The whole school had a trip to the ASB Sports Centre today. What a wonderful time we had! We tried our hand at netball skills, athletics and floorball (a little like unihoc) I'm sure we'll all sleep well tonight! Many thanks to Luke's mum and Nikora's dad for coming with us :)

100 Days of School!

We have been at school for 100 days this year so we had to celebrate! Joining in with Rooms 1,2 and 3 we had fun making 100 styled glasses, creating pictures of what we might look like when we are old, exploring patterns, the 100s chart, and finding 100 things in nature.

Ma te Mahi Ka Ora

We love singing in Room 4! Here is one of our favourites - Ma te Mahi Ka Ora
(Found on Kiwi Kidsong 11)

Marshmallow Shooters - Force and Motion!

We couldn't look into force and motion without making Marshmallow shooters - and this is something you've got to try at home as well!

You need: a paper cup, a balloon, sellotape, and plenty of mini marshmallows!

First cut the bottom off a paper cup











Next, cut the end off the balloon














Tie a knot in the balloon and stretch it over the bottom of the cup. Secure the balloon to the cup with some sellotape.
















Now have some fun! Place a marshmallow in your shooter, hold the top of the cup with a couple of fingers, aim, pull back on the balloon and fire!

Measure how far you can go and let us know in the comments below.

Reading Buddies

We are lucky to have Room 7 as our Buddy Class. Today they came and helped us with our reading.
 (I think they were quite impressed with us - you find great readers in our room!)

O is for Oobleck!

When the sound of the week is "O" (Long and short) you just have to make Oobleck for Discovery time!

 Oobleck is a funny substance. It is runny when you move your hands through it slowly, but goes quite solid when you speed things up.

 The Science behind it… Cornflour is made up of lots of tiny starch particles, these are very attracted to water so the water gets in amongst them very quickly. The water acts as a lubricant, so when you move it slowly the particles have time to move past each other and they can flow like a liquid.

 However if you apply a rapid force it causes the particles to move slightly causing the particles that are almost touching to jam together. And the water that was between them moves sideways slightly into the gaps. Now instead of having lots of lubricated individual particles you have a solid structure of lumps touching each other which can't flow.

Recipe:

You Need:

1 bowl (or tray)

Cornflour

Water

Food colouring

What to do:

1.    Mix 1 part water with 1.5 to 2 parts Cornflour. You may wish to start with one cup of water and one and a half cups of Cornflour, then work in more Cornflour if you want a more 'solid' oobleck. It will take about 10 minutes of mixing to get nice homogeneous oobleck.

2.    Mix in a few drops of food colouring if you want coloured oobleck

Kapokapo Matariki Concert

Here is a utube clip of Hampton Hill Kaka Haka group performing at the Kapokapo Matariki concert. Room 4 had 4 performers involved in this - all in the front row. Ava on the far left, then over to Judy, Jessica and Ella. Well done girls - you did a great job looking after the little kids from the kohanga reo.

(Click on image for link)

Momentum

We have been learning about momentum. Bill Nye is a favourite of ours. Here is a short clip of him explaining momentum.


If you have time, click on the full version on the right.