Topic

Friday 14th February

We created these "wordles" or word clouds on the computer.  It shows all of our favourite things.  We really liked changing the layout, font and colours.

Thursday 21st November

Our farm animal posters using Comic Life.

Monday 11th November

This term we are learning about farm animals and equipment.  We can't wait to visit the A&P Show on Thursday!
At the moment we are researching animals you can find on a farm with a buddy so we can create a poster using Comic Life.  Today we decided on the facts we would use on our poster and started to plan what it would look like.  This involves a lot of co operative work with our buddy which Miss Hyland says we are doing well.  Next week we will be using the new MacBooks to create our posters.

Wednesday 14th August

Thanks Alex and Ian for bringing along your salt and sugar crystals for us to look at.  They are very cool.

Friday 9th August

Our next science experiment is trying to grow crystals.  We have three solutions of sugar, salt and salt with food colouring.  We can't wait to see what happens.

Jamie's hypothesis:  I think a crystal will only form in the blue cup
Kate hypothesis:  I think that the crystals will grow in the one which has the blue food colouring
Savannah's hypothesis:   I think that sugar and clear water will mix together to make a crystal
Alex's hypothesis:  I think that all of the cups will grow crystals


Monday 5th August

Today we found out what happened to the egg that was in vinegar for 3 days!  We found out that the vinegar is an acid and it made the shell dissolve.  It then made the egg feel all rubbery.
The raw egg was very soft and we could gently squeeze it.

When we went outside to test the egg we found that the hard boiled egg bounced!!!!!

Friday 2nd August

Today we were learning to write up an experiment.  We needed to remember to write the aim, hypothesis, equipment and method.  Next week we will write the results and conclusion.
We are loving being scientists!

Thursday 1st August

Today we set up a new Kitchen Science Experiment.  Our aim is to find out what happens to a hard boiled egg when you put it in vinegar for a few days.

Gabby's hypothesis:  I think that the egg will explode
Thomas' hypothesis:  I think the egg will grow big and explode
Sienna's hypothesis:  I think the egg will crack and come up (float)
Lily's hypothesis:  I think the boiled one will not crack and the raw egg will crack and will come out
Grace's hypothesis:  I think it will turn green!


Wednesday 31st July

Today we started our new Kitchen Science Topic.  It was sooooooo much fun.  We were excited the whole day.  We did three experiments using baking soda and vinegar:  exploding sandwich bag, bubbly colours and balloon fizz-inflate.
experiments

Here we all are waiting to see what happens when the baking soda and vinegar react together in the sandwich bag.

WAITING WAITING .....  BANG! 

Friday 5th July

Today we started our "Fact Files"  It was very exciting and you can see the concentration on our faces.  We are trying our best to make sure our work is presented neatly.  Next week we will start writing our facts.

Tuesday 2nd July

For Topic we are making a "Fact File" about either Margaret Mahy or Lynley Dodd.  Today we started planning the facts we will use.  We need to have five interesting facts about our chosen "Amazing New Zealand Author"

Monday 24th June

On Friday we read "Dragon in a Wagon" by Lynley Dodd.  We created our own rhyming sentences and pictures following the same structure.

Wednesday 19th June

This week in Topic we have been learning about Lynley Dodd.  We have read a lot of her books.  We thought it was funny that she did not like Maths when she was at school.

                 

Sam is enjoying doing his Hairy Maclary puzzle

Kate and Gabby are working on their
activity sheets too.  The dot to dot of
Bottomley Potts was the best!

In Topic we are learning about Margaret Mahy.

We know these facts about her:

• She went to Auckland University to study (Joel)
• She was born in Whakatane (Madi)
• She was a good swimmer (Paige)
• She loved salad sandwiches (Isabella)
• She was born on 21st March 1936 (Sienna)
• Her mum was a teacher and her a dad a bridge builder (Jessica)
• Her dad told her adventure stories which helped her write her own (Gabby)
• She wrote more than 100 picture books, 40 novels and 20 collections of short stories (Thomas)
• She wrote her first story when she was 7 years old and it was ""Harry is Bad" (Merrin)
• She had 4 younger brothers and sisters (Henry)
• Her first book was published when she was 7 (Sam)
• She won lots of awards for her great stories (Ian)
• She trained to be a librarian (Kayla)

How does Margaret Mahy relate to our school vision and values?

Respect:
Margaret Mahy showed respect to other people (Grace)
She showed respect by listening to the people who trained her (Alex)
She respected other people's ideas about books (Savannah)

Learning:
She learned how to write books (Joel)
She learned how to be a good swimmer (Lily)
She learned how to be a librarian (Jessica)

Perseverance:
She persevered to write all of her books (Joel, Kayla, Thomas)
She persevered in her swimming because she was good at it (Gabby)

Spirit of Generosity:
She showed a spirit of generosity by helping other people  write (Olive)

Motivated and Independent Learner:
She was a motivated and independent learner because she chose to write all of the stories (Merrin)