Year 6 Camp

Here are some photos from the sensational Year 6 Camp at Marahau. What awesome kids you are!!!

Marble Runs

Here was the challenge- Using 1 shoe box and selotape, create a ramp for a marble to run down. The winning team is the team that's marble takes the longest time! Great use of team work, determination, and creativity
Here are the results!

Wellington Interzone Athletics

Click here for Photos from Primary Sport Wellington Interzone Athletics - 2009

Kainoa the Magnificient!

Today at the library, Kainoa got a book out on card tricks. Look what he can do!! Great persistence with being self-organised and communicating Kainoa! Kapai!

School Athletics Results

Here are the results for the recent school athletics. Some of our class went on to the Tawa Zone competition, and even the Wellington Zone
Way to go everyone!!!

Last Market Day for 2009

What a beautiful day! Great organising of those stalls everyone! We raised over $700 for Y6 camp.

Boredom Busters!

An Unusual Visitor

Sanita bought along a skink to school today. She had found it in her Dad's gumboot!
We have had a look at different types of lizards. Skinks and Geckos are similar but Geckos have frog-like eyes.
Our visitor was the common Skink. Click here for information about it. We may look at developing a habitat for skinks next year. (A definite if Jackson has anything to do with it!!)

Powhiri- A Maori Welcoming Ceremony

We are learning about the different sections of a Maori Powhiri. The different sections of the Powhiri are:-
Inoi ,Wero, Karanga, Haka, Mihi , Waiata , Koha, Hongi , Kai
Have a look at the links to a videoed Powhiri (its in 7 parts).
Can you identify all the different parts of the powhiri? We will be learning more about these terms throughout the term.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6 (explanation)
Part 7

We are using the Blooms Taxonomy to help us with our Machine Inquiry

Machine Inquiry

We are looking into Machines-Things that move this term

Starting off with the 6 simple machines and then delving deeper.

Click here for more information on

Term 4

Here we are at the start of the last term! And what a busy term it is as well. Lots of awesome things in store! Swimming, Tawa Intermediate Visit, Athletics, Market Day, Year 6 Dinner, EOTC week (y5) and camp (y6)

Lots and lots of hard work thrown in as well!

The wonders of Baking Soda!

We had a serious look at Sodium bicarbonate or Baking Soda today. We knew that when mixed with vinegar, it froths up but were not sure why.
We've found out that when it gets mixed with something a bit acidy there is a chemical reaction and the baking soda gives off Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in bubbles.
This cool reaction happened when we mixed the baking soda to a melted golden syrup mixture (which is slightly acidic). This carbon dioxide gas, which formed when the baking soda was mixed with the boiling golden syrup enlarged, creating little air pockets in the hokey pokey. Very yummy too!
Click here for the Hokey Pokey recipe

BUBBLE BUBBLE BOIL AND TROUBLE!!

Milo Cricket

We had a fantastic time today when the guys from Milo Cricket came to teach us some great cricket skills.

Making Butter

We made butter in class. First we watched a scientist, Robert Krumpf, explain the process on utube, and then we had a go ourselves.

It was so yummy that we served it up at our Parent Evening that night.

Sports Drinks vs Weetbix!

Which is a better recovery fuel?
We set up a fair test by selecting 6 fit athletes to run our cross country course for 15 minutes. Three of them then had a glass of ‘Mizone’ while the other three had a bowl of 2 weetbix with milk and a bit of sugar.
We then recorded how they felt recovered 10 minutes later.
One hour later we repeated the test, only this time the athletes who had the ‘Mizone’ had the weetbix and those who had the weetbix had the ‘mizone’.
Here are our results:

The result was unanimous! Everyone felt better recovered after the weetbix!
Special thanks to our athletes: Magnus, Andre, Henry, Leanne, Flynn, and Reilly
Thanks also to our scientists: Jai, Shanyn, Nasan, Teniel, Amali, and Brittany. And to our kitchen staff: Louise, Sanita, and Jackson

Click here for photos of the event

Blue Vein Cheese

Continuing our investigation into mould we had a look at blue vein cheese today. We smelt it, looked at it under a microscope and had a taste as well. Various reactions!!

Term 3 Market Day

What a great time! A great day fundraising for camp. Even with the heavy downpour of rain in the middle of it all!

Mould! What's the FUZZ all about?

As part of our Inquiry this term we are using the Blooms Thinking skills to research Mould and food. Here is a rubric checklist to help us keep on track.

Cupcakes for SPCA

We had a great time baking cupcakes and then decorating them today. (Henry may end up being camp cook!!) As a class we raised $26 for the SPCA. Many thanks to Olivia's mum for helping us and to everyone who brought along ingredients. Click here for our cupcake recipe.

Droodles!

Healthy Lunch

We had a look at our lunches, and whether they were healthy or not. We read through the nutrition facts on the packaging. Some things are fine if we have them just as treats once in a while.

We also talked about packaging and what would have been biodegradable or not.

Fabric Collage

We have been busy making 'food' fabric collages, using scraps of material.
Julia R Berkley's fabric collages inspired us!

Awesome results- making us hungry!!!

Breakfast @ school!

A healthy start to the day!

When you have breakfast @ school you simply must wear your pjays!