River walk tomorrow?

Hmmmmm will we or won't we get to go on our walk by the Manawatu River tomorrow morning?
Current river level...

Current forecast...

Discovery Time

Here are few photos from Discovery Time this morning.

Armistice Writing

Dancing Raisins

We put some raisins into bottles of Sprite Zero, and Soda water.
We noticed:
The raisins had little bubbles on them.
Lots and lots and lots of bubbles were coming off the bottom.
The bubbles come up but never go down.
When you opened the bottle, there were a few bubbles, but when you added the raisins, it started exploding!
The raisins went up and down in the Sprite.
When the Sprite exploded the raisins kept going down.
The top of the Sprite was like a shield and the raisins coudn't get on top of it.
Near the beginning, when the bubbles went up they stayed on the top for ages. Then the top went all white.
The raisins that went to the top were covered with bubbles.
When you opened the brand new soda bottle, it exploded like a volcano.
As soon as you put the raisins in the Sprite bottle it overflowed.
The raisins in the bottle were getting wrinklier. They looked weird.
The Sprite bottle had more bubbles than the soda bottle.

We thought:
 The carbon dioxide or air was escaping. Less bubbles came up as we did it.
We think the bubbles made the raisins go up and down.

Shakeout- outside

Yesterday Mr Gilmore asked Room 11 if we knew what to do if we were outside when an earthquake struck. So today we used PicCollage to show him the answer. You move away from trees and buildings a few steps, and you drop, cover and hold. If you are out in the middle of the field, this means you need to make a turtle.

More Inertia investigations!

We had some more fun today with our inertia experiments, and we used Slo-Mo on the iPads to record what happened. Here are a few of our videos.

The Great New Zealand Shake-out!

It felt like it was actually shaking!!! It felt real. It was fun. It was squishy under the tables. Everybody did it sensibly. Everybody was being good under the tables, and nobody did it crazily! Someone said it was very uncomfortable cos she had to hold onto two table legs. Someone else said she kept knocking her head on the table!

We are glad we all know what to do if an actual earthquake happens!

Science Investigations -Inertia!

Today we have been exploring inertia. We have been trying to get an 'egg' to fall into the glass. We filmed some using slo-mo so we could really observe what was going on!

Icecream flavours

We have been working out maths about ice-cream flavours. Today we used the Maths300 software to help us. Here are the 24 ways Chelsea worked out you could make non-repeating combinations with 4 flavours.

Olivia's wind story

It was so windy the other day that we went outside to run on the playground, and feel the wind in our hair and faces. Here is the story Olivia wrote about it, and the picture she drew.

Daffodil Day

Quite a few of the Room 11 children dressed with yellow for Daffodil Day.

our writing

Lots of us in Room 11 are getting better at using our 'personal voice' in writing in a way that interests our audience. Here is an example from Peytin. You can tell she felt passionate about her painting.

Heads and Legs

Today we had to do some problem solving in maths, about heads and legs. We were told how many heads and legs were on animals in a field. We had to work out how many roosters and cows there were.
Here are some of the ways we did it with equipment, making a model.

Using Brushes on the iPad

Today Miss Riordan had some time to learn about some new Apps on the iPad. This afternoon we made some pictures with Brushes. Here are three paintings by Rebecca, Katie & Brooke, and Jewel.

Discovery time

Room 11 love to be Creative at discovery time, and use their imagination. Look at this snowman!

And look at this beautiful bed for a cat puppet!

Maths Week

This is maths week. We are all working with a partner to solve the problems on the Survivor series!

Moon Poems

At writing time this week we have been writing poems about the moon. The children have put their words together in very interesting ways. And they have decorated their night skies very well too. Come and see them up on our classroom walls soon!