FUN FRIDAY (and Thursday!)

Last week (Week 6) we had a lot going on...

First of all we watched the big kids do their cross country...

Then we had our first Buddy class session.

We made ANZAC cookies with our buddies!  YUM YUM

We read a book called "When You're Not Looking"

Then we wrote our own book based on the story.  We wrote our own stories about what we could do when no-one was looking...here are a couple...

AND, last but not least we did an experiment 

FIrst we discussed what scientists do...our thoughts were...

MICAH - they might build houses

MAX - they do potions they can turn anything into any colour

CATHERINE - they make experiments like tie dyed milk and erupting volcanoes

JESSE - they can make a night vision potion

Then we discussed what a HYPOTHESIS is - this is our guess about what we think will happen...here are some of ours...

LILY - it will spread out

CAMERON - it will change to green because yellow, red and blue make green

NGARANGI - it will change colours like a rainbow

JOSH - colour dust might come out of the container like steam

using milk, food colouring and dishwashing liquid...

After that we made sure our experiment was fair - everything had to be the SAME, except one thing.  We had to use the same milk, the same amount of food colouring and the same amount of detergent...this made our experiment a FAIR TEST.

 CAMERON - We made an experiment.  It was a rainbow.  It was beautiful.  We were learning to be scientists.  It was so much science.

KUPA - This morning we were doing an experiment.  We needed milk, food colouring and a bowl and a cup.  We put in blue, red and yellow.  Two people got to stir it and then it was changing colour.  It changed to grey - they both turned grey.

ELLA - We made a rainbow in a bowl.  It was awesome and now it is green and grey and on the outside it was blue.
Here is Quinn's explanation of what happened...

Week Five

This week we had a cartoon workshop where we learnt how to draw cartoon and do fancy cartoon lettering!

On Friday we found some wood and Wairakau, Josh and Jamin decided to make a slide...We had to sand it to make sure that we didn't get any splinters OUCH!

Now we just have to work out how to make it safe and stable...Sophie thinks we need to add some safety matting, and Jamin thinks we need something to hold onto as we slide down (Ms Boon hopes the nails hold strong!)

Week Three and Four Highlights...

We had HEAPS of rain on Thursday and our school turned into a "WATER VILLAGE"

On Tuesday we had a visit from the circus...

We created our own clown faces...we even used pastels - and didn't make too much mess!

They look amazing up on our wall...