Arts Rotation

The Senior Syndicate has an arts rotation this year, where each Thursday afternoon we go to a different teacher to learn about a different form of art. We do Drama, Dance, Music and Visual Art. We go to the same teacher for 6 weeks, so that we can produce some amazing things.

With Mrs Knofflock, we drew Toucans, then painted them with bright colours. Then we decorated our backgrounds with bright crayons. Next, we coloured over the background in black crayon and scratched interesting patterns into the black, so that the bright colours would shine through. These are some of our masterpieces. What do you think?

Our second rotation was with Mr Mac. We made mosaics of Sea Horses or Lizards. We learnt all about colour combinations,  fitting pieces of tile together and how to grout. We love our mosaics. Do you?

Science Fun!

 Ashleigh's Experiment

For this experiment my question was "Will other acids react with baking soda the same way vinegar does?"

My hypothesis was that Lemon Juice would have the biggest reaction as I thought it had the most acid in it.

I put two teaspoons into a jug. I cut a lemon in half and squeezed  it into a quarter cup, than I poured it into the jug. The result wasn't as big as I had thought it would be.

         

The Lemon Juice Reaction     

Next I used an orange, I cut it in half, squeezed it into the quarter cup and tipped it into the jug.

Woah! 

Again, not the results I was expecting! I expected the orange to have less acid in it but the fizz was significantly bigger than the lemons!

At home I plan to repeat the event to see if I get the same results.              

For the final test I used a quarter cup of vinegar to compare all the results. Vinegar had a bigger reaction than the lemon juice, but a smaller reaction than the orange juice. My hypothesis may have been back to front, but I learnt a lot by doing the experiment!

What an awesome science experiment! 

                                                                                                                      

The orange juice reaction

                                                                                                         

                                                                              

Experiments!

We have been doing lots of science experiments this week as part of our fair testing unit.

In this experiment, we soaked chicken bones in vinegar for 5 days. When we took them out, all of the calcium had been drawn out so the bones were really bendy! It showed us why we need to drink milk - we don't want our bones to bend like that from a lack of calcium! To make this a fair test, we are going to do the experiment again and put the bones in wine vinegar, malt vinegar and white vinegar and compare the results.

In this disgusting experiment, we put half of a tooth into a bottle of Coke and put half the tooth in water. We checked it 24 hours later and were horrified with the results! 

The half that had been in water was still perfect - white and clean. The half that had been in Coke was about a quarter of the size and brown with holes in it! We now realise the damage Coke could do to us it we drink it too often!

More Science Raps!!!

 

    Science

What is science?

it's the thing,

the amount of science possible

 can make your ears ring!

Do a hypothesis do it now,

will it explode? POW, POW,POW!

It's experiment time right now,

so get your things and show us how! 

Wasn't the experiment ever so cool?

So show your friends how much it can rule. 

That's what science is today,

you do science this way!

By Ashleigh, Mikaela, Laura and Paige

Science

- What is science? I don't know! Will you tell me?

- Let's go, go go!

First we need to make a goal,

then hypothesise, yo, yo, yo!

Then we should do experiments

(Make sure you add fair testing in,

Otherwise just throw it in the bin.)

- Will you tell me what's next in line?

- Analysing data that's oh so fine.

- How should we present results?

- Graphs or posters, free of faults.

-Wow, science is so much fun today.

Thanks for telling me, yay, yay, yay!!

By Megan M, Amy and Maddy

Science Raps!

We are learning about fair testing in Science. We were struggling to remember all of the different things that you have to do as part of an investigation, so we created Science Raps! We will share them with you here and once we have practised them, we might even be able to video them and upload them. We are really proud of our raps - what do you think?

Shervonne, Jannisa and Carey's Rap

Science is really fun, and this is how you do it.

First ask questions: how or why? Then your hypothesis.

Your aim or goal comes up next: what you are trying to do.

Experiments give you results, they're really important too.

When you get your information,you analyse, then present it.

Make sure you only change one thing: that is called fair testing.

A method is very important: it shows all your equipment,

and if you do it all correct, your results will be perfect.

SCIENCE!

Oh yeah.

Justine, Bailey and Paige's Rap

S-s-s Science What do you know?

S-s-s Science What's your goal?

Experiments are next

I hope it's the best

Now we gonna analyse the results

Yeah Yeah Yeah

Present your work in a really big burst

So your friends will think you're the bomb (Boom)

Now you know a lot about science

Cause we wrote the rap

Now you need to clap

YEAH!

Our buddy class, Room 13 came to visit us today and we taught them a new song. It is called 'Things We Remember'. It is New Zealand Music Month this month, so we were learning a song with a Maori chorus. It was really hard to say the Maori words so fast, but we think we did a great job. What do you think?

Learn about Volcanoes!

In Term 1 we studied all different types of safety - from Outdoor (for camp), Water, Technology and Disasters. We learnt a lot about how to staf safe in each of these ways. The highlight of the unit was the presentations of our learning. We had working models of volcanoes, plays, music and powerpoints.

This is a group of Room 6 students performing their play about the Mt Vesuvius eruption.