Science Fair

Yahoo! The science fair day had finally come.  We were all excited to share our science experiments with the rest of the school.  Here are some photos of our experiments.

          

                                      

                                

 

                                  

Balloon Blow-up Experiment

We are really enjoying our science experiments.  Everyone is looking forward to completing their own experiment ready for the science fair.  Here is a video of a experiment we did using baking soda, vinegar, a bottle and a balloon.

We did this experiment three times.  We change the amount of vinegar we used the second time and the amount of baking soda the second time.  More baking soda produced a bigger balloon.
As the baking soda mixes with vinegar a chemical reaction takes place and creates carbon dioxide which blows up the balloon.

Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3 - a very fun packed term with lots of things happening. We have started our science experiments ready for the science fair in week five.  We have been following the Commonwealth Games and are very proud of New Zealand.

New Bikes

Today we had a very special delivery to our school.  We are now the proud owners of 15 new bikes.  Our class was lucky enough to be chosen to be the first ones to use the bikes.  Here is a picture of us all with the bikes.

Communication over time

This term we have been busy looking at the history of communication.  We researched different types of communication and discussed why communication has changed over time.  We put a timeline presentation together to share our findings.

Click on the above image to view our presentation!

Geometry

For the last two weeks we have been exploring Geometry.  We have looked at 2D and 3D shapes, symmetry, reflection, rotation, translation and tessellation.  We have been using shapes to create pictures.  Here are a couple of pictures that the children have created.

A robot by Arlo

A rocket by Royston

A table with food by Jorja

A person by Georgia.

Everyone has poster their tessellation patterns and their 2D shape pattern to their blog. We are looking forward to seeing if we get any comments.

Term Two

Welcome to Term Two.
We all had a very exciting morning with a visit from the U20's New Zealand Football team.  They bought along the World Cup Trophy that they will be playing for next year.  We all got to have our photo taken with it.  We also got to player little games and learn lots of skills and tricks from the team.

Adam has met Beckham.

Nikora was a star!

Georgia and Charlee with the Trophy.

The team arriving at school.

Watching the tricks!