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.

Milk Mosaics

Following on from our Science Experiments with milk, food colouring and detergent, we had a go at capturing our beautiful patterns

Science Week 2014

What a great time we had during Science Week. Lots of curiosity all stirred up as we went about  various investigations. Great observations (and fun too!) Click on headings for experiments. - Try these at home!

Floating Bubbles

Super Cold Bag

Milk Mosaics 

(Milk Mosaic Art Work - next post!)

Dry Ice....

...and a whole school "Dry Ice Bomb" display

Dry Ice Bomb - Science Week1 from Mrs B on Vimeo.

Science Challenge Evening

On Tuesday evening we had a Science Challenge! All that you had to bring along was one parent and a whole lot of determination and creativity!

They had to design a carrier that would carry a map across a wire.

Great fun!

Science Challenge Evening on PhotoPeach

Richard Schole's Magical World of Crazy Science

We had a special time at assembly today. Richard Schole entertained, enlightened, and enthralled us with his Crazy Science Show!

Hockey Champs

The Hockey Season has started and we have 6 players from our class in school teams.

The Weekly draw and results are found on our school sports website - http://hamptonhillsports.wikispaces.com/Hockey

P is for Paper Planes

We looked at how the shape of the wing can change a planes direction in Discovery today
First we decorated, then folded a piece of paper in half so that the long sides met. Then we opened it

out and folded the top corners to the crease
Then we folded down the whole triangle shape that we just made so that the tip lined up with the crease in the middle
Next, we folded down the corners at the top so that they met a little way above the tip of the triangle.
Then we folded up the tip of the triangle so it overlapped the folded-down flaps and held them in place.
Once we had done that we turned the paper over, folded it in half down the middle crease and smoothed out the creases.
To make the wings, we folded both sides down.

This would have been a fun dart throwing competition, but we took it further. We looked at how the planes flew then tried curling the wings up or down to see what happened to the flight direction.

Mihi - Introductory Speeches