Jump Jam

Brett from Jump Jam came to run us through a few routines

Jurassic Park -Discovery

Science, The Power of Bleach

We had great fun experimenting with household bleach.  We predicted the water would change to blue when we bleached navy blue cotton fabric, and were surprised to find it went orange, the material also changed to a red/orange colour but the cotton stitching stayed navy blue. We learned that natural fabric such as cotton bleaches more easily than nylon.  Bleach releases oxygen molecules = oxidation, this breaks the chemical binds of chromophores.   Chromophore molecules either reflect no colour or a colour outside the visible spectrum.
No colour is white to people.

Sharing Discovery

Discovery

Two Truths and a Lie

For writing we wrote about our holidays but we wrote 2 truths and a lie.  We shared our writing and children had to guess the lie.

Swimming

It's amazing to see how confident the children are in the pool now! :-)

Pamphlets and brochures

We wrote a brochure advertising the things you could do on holiday at a place we have been to.

Information Reports

We combined 2 animals and wrote an information report on our 'new hybrid'."

Descriptive Poems

We read the book 'Toad' by Ruth Brown then wrote some amazing descriptive poems about a snake.

Green Fingers

Mika and Aryan in Kapa Haka

We love the enthusiasm the junior Kapa Haka show when they perform.

When I grow up

We wrote about what we want to be when we grow up.

Rock Art

We painted special rocks and made cards to give to someone special!

Writing Procedures

Spring Poems

Landscape water painting

City Perspective Art

We love our city water paint art!

Sunsets

We are learning about perspective and blending.

Calendar Art Practise

We chose a few different art styles to try before we did our calendar art.  We reflected so we knew what we could improve on.

Making Meringues

As part of our Turangawaewae (Our place - where we belong) learning we looked at 'Kiwiana'.  Today we made mini pavlovas with cream and kiwifruit, then wrote a procedure.  We also looked at the science in meringues - they were first made in 1600's when chefs realised whipping egg whites fluffed up.  Egg whites are 90% water made up of protein molecules.  When whipped the water loving bits cling to the water and the other bits cling to the air.  Cream of tarter is an acid and stops it collapsing.  The vote was 'They were YUM!!'

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