Friday, 28 November 2014

A symphony of colour

 
In our science rotation today we explored what what happens when you put drops of food colouring and dish washing liquid in milk.  
Before we added the dish washing liquid it looked like this.

When we added the dishwashing liquid it looked like this.



The reason for this is the dish washing liquid is breaking down the fat in the milk.

You can find the instructions for this at Science Bob.

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Our Gardens

Our gardens are growing really well. There are flowers on the tomato plants and the peas are starting to grow. 
Thanks for helping to take care of our gardens.

Friday, 21 November 2014

Worser Bay School's Got Talent

Do You Have a Special Talent?

Enter Worser Bay Schools Got Talent
Bands, Singles, dance/gym, Duet, are all Welcome
Monday 15th December- Wednesday 17th December
There will be two age groups:
0-3 Monday 15th
4-6 Tuesday 16th
Final Wednesday 17th 

Bring your own instruments or Costume.
Please Read the Blog for More Information.

Wednesday, 19 November 2014

Apple Corer Explanation Writing

Today we have written explanations about an Apple Corer. We used different apps on the iPads to help us with our writing.  We were very lucky to have some helpers from Mahutonga come in and help us with the iPads. Some of us learnt to use Piccollage and some of us learnt to use word Q.
You can read our writing below.


Apple Corer Explanation from Matariki on Vimeo.

Apple corers are things that make it easy to peel apples,they also take out the core. Apple corers peel the apple skin off in one go.

By Ben and Orla and Rico (written on word cue)

Apples are fun to eat because You can do stuff like silliness.
You can eat an apple faster by coring it using an apple corer. 
By Daisy and Milla  (written on Wordcue)


Space Place - Learning Celebration

We had a great learning celebration -  Our students got to share all of their learning with whānau.  We also topped off our Inquiry with a v...