Room 18 science experiment

Today room 18 did a science experiment with Miss Dunne. Ivor ( a scientist) and Mrs Sila'ila'i (deputy principle) came in to our class to observe what we were doing. We used vinegar, water, baking soda, raw spaghetti and cooked spaghetti. 

We all made our predictions on what would happen to the water when we pour it in the vinegar. After that we checked our predictions if they were right. Following on from that, we made another prediction on what would happen if we put baking soda in the water and vinegar. After a while we had to explain the whole thing. We all had fun doing this. Here are some photos!

                                  

    "Isaiah don't drop your pencil!"

    War time. Water vs Vinegar.

    Raw spaghetti, cooked spaghetti just put it all in.

    Starting to fizz!!

   Exploding time!!

The spaghetti that was at the bottom started to float back up again!!

Why do you think this happened? 
What is your explanation? 

By Merina and Jenna. 

Interesting facts about The Chicken-leg Effect from today's reading.

You may have not realised this but two really weird things happen to you when you get out of bed.

When you get out of bed heaps of blood rushes down your body and you even get shorter.

Jenna

All of the blood goes to three places. Your arm,head but mostly your chest.

Caleb

Your heart can beat more slowly when your in a relaxed position.

Adam

To experiment how your body is reacting when you a sleeping try this.

1.You need a sausage shaped ballon.

2. Fill the ballon with water,knot the end and now lay it on the table.

3.Pick up the ballon from the knotted end.

4.Finally the gravity will force the water downwards, giving the balloon a heavy-bottom, bulging body shape.

By Caleb,Jenna and Adam.

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3-D shapes

Today we are learning to make 3-D shapes and learn about it.  We learnt that it is a shape that can pop up to you like a punch.

Good work Bradley you're almost there!!!!   

Our growing knowledge of geometry

Check out our new educreations lesson about using protractors

*There are a couple of mistakes but we hope you will be understanding*
We will show another lesson soon :-)

Believe and achieve

In room 18 we are focusing on setting and achieving goals.

We are calling it Believe and Achieve! 

We are recording goals using google presentation and using google calendar to remind us to have scheduled check points. 

We think that if you believe that you CAN do something you will achieve it :-) 

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

William Arthur Ward

Sour cream.Mmmmmmm

                 Yesterday our class put some sour cream into containers but,we left one lid on and off.   We are working on our observation and note taking skills. We are thinking like scientists.          

                                       

        "looks very gooey and smelly,I wish I don't smell like that." Montell

     

Here are our predictions and observations.     

Come back and check how our experiment goes!            

 Thank you for coming on our blog.

Paddy, Montell and Sammi. 

                                           

Jump in!!

Today for fitness we practised our skipping and timing our jumps. 

                Great jumping styles Caleb.

               Hard luck Xavier at least you gave it a try.

         Come on Victor you can do it! 

It was frustrating at times but we will work on communication and timing. 

By Paddy, Montell and Sammi. 

 

Inspiring speeches

We are working on our persuasive speeches for our school speech competition that is coming up.
Here are some examples of inspiring speeches.

Interesting facts from today's reading lessons

Mercury and Venus have no moons at all! 

Jordan t 

Earth's moon is the fifth largest in the solar system

Bradley

Mars was the roman god of war.

Patrick

Our moon is 384 000 kilometers away it doesn't produce any light of its own.

Losa

The biggest craters are over 300 kilometres across.

Leah

Neptune was the sea god.

Patrick

About five billion years ago, a huge cloud of dust and gas in space started to shrink under the pull of its own gravity.

By Leah. 

Maori language week assembly

Kia Ora

Today was the last day of Maori language week so our school celebrated it with an assembly with Avondale College.Here are some photos of Avondale College doing their kapa haka items. 

  After all their items room 26,room 25 and Avondale College done a Haka all together. Here is a photo of their performanc.

             

                They did a magnificent job at the assembly and thank you room 25 and 26 but most of all Avondale College.

Ka Rawe!

Kiwi sport!

Today our class went to learn rugby in kiwi sport and we learnt how to pass quickly and catch properly. The best thing was that we played some new games like rock papers scissors dragon. thanks to Matiu in the junior warriors.

Everyone is teaming up but also remember your number.

                Be careful Xavier don't drop the rugby ball!

   

 Thank you Matiu for showing us how to do all this.

Circle Measurements

We are using an app called educreations on the i-pad. In class we have been learning about geometry and circle measurements. Check out our video here.

Our first ideas about adaptation

We have been experimenting with lots of different ways to record our first ideas about adaptation. Which one do you think is the best way?

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 Educreations

Our mindmeister map 
    

Created with Padlet

Google drawing and maps

Today we were learning how to use google maps and google drawing. We even linked the two!

Access the interactive link here

Poetry using the technique of exaggeration

We created some poems using exaggeration.
Enjoy

Sanitarium

Today and yesterday year 6 students learnt how to cook healthy things and also made their names out of vegetables like this.

They were cooking coleslaw and chick pea burgers.  This is what it looks like when it's finished and ready to eat.

                This experience of making food was really fun and also really helpful too. It was really delicious which was the best thing of all.

Thank you to all the sanitarium staff for making our time amazing!

Holidays!

The holidays are here!
Two weeks to relax and enjoy the company of friends and family....

all the students in room 18 need to keep working on their schoolwork throughout.

For those of you that have internet access, use the links on our literacy support tab.
e.g.
Maths-use the daily maths quiz, access studyladder and watch KHAN academy for tutorials
Writing-use the literacy shed for writing topics and continue writing your class speech
Reading-read the novels that you have borrowed from our class library and access studyladder
Spelling-look back over previous spelling words and learn the essential spelling words on the homework tab

Don't forget to record your daily reading on our online log!

We will collect and graph the results when we return to school in two weeks.

Enjoy the holidays everyone.

Miss Dunne. 

The senior school human ladder

Here is room 18 passing the box full of books 

Here is the seniors having fun passing the boxes.

Say cheese!

Mike is storing the big container full of books.

Don't drop it Liana !

Congratulations!

Today Rosebank School voted for their first ever school council! 

The students below were voted in by their classmates. I am very proud of all the students involved. 

It was an awesome day with many things to celebrate. More information and photos to follow. 

Miss Dunne