Sugar Crystal Experiment

Ingredients:

Sugar

Hot water.

You will also need:

Pencil

String

Paper clip        

glass cup

Bowl                   

Spoon

Method:

1. Pour the hot water in the bowl

2. Add 3 cups of sugar to the hot water

3. Stir until the sugar dissolves in the water

4. Wrap the string around the pencil and attach the paper clip to the end

5. Put the paperclip in the mixture.

By Eva

What do you predict will happen?

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Eggciting Eggsperiment

We are learning to write up experiments. This piece of writing is by Marnie.

This is what happened to the eggs after one day.

Please add a comment in the padlet below to say what you observed...

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Mystery Skype with Fergusson Intermediate

Today we did a Mystery Skype.We talked with a school.We were trying to guess which school it was by asking questions. It was an intermediate school. We figured out that it was in Upper Hutt. They figured out where was our school first. It was awesome!

Fergusson was really, really clever school.

By Leola and Charlotte

Today at school we did a Mystery Skype and we had to guess what the other school were.
We found out that they were in New Zealand.
They were in Upper Hutt.
They were an intermediate school. They are Year 7 and 8. 
They are in the south of the north island. 
We are learning how to ask good questions. We had to ask good questions to find out their location.
We figured that they were Fergusson Intermediate school. 
By Cruz and Will

Today we did a Mystery Skype with a school. At first we did not know who it was but then we did. You want us to tell you how we did it? We guessed where the other school was and asked them questions to find out.  It was Fergusson Intermediate School. We prepared questions beforehand. We had to answer yes or no and then we did a video chat it was fun.
By Greta and Georgina

When we did mystery skype we first asked if they were in New Zealand they said "yes".
They found out that we were Worser Bay first.
They were Fergusson Intermediate School.
By Matilda

We skyped a different school and guessed where their school was. The other school was in Upper Hutt guessed the name of our school first.  We guessed some of the things near their school.      

We liked skyping with their school in Upper Hutt. That  school was very clever. Their school was different to our school and we still liked skypeing them.

By Molly and Violeta

Today we made contact with another school and tried to guess which school they guessed ours we lost but it was still awesome! We looked on google maps and we were so close to winning but unfortunately a very clever kid looked at nicola’s name and looked 

it up and found out what school we were. It was really fun! I want to win next time.

By Nela and Phillipa

We had a Killer whale mystery skype today with Fergusson Intermediate School. We learnt that they live in Wellington, Upper Hutt. They are one of the two intermediate schools in Upper Hutt. The time went fast.We took turns asking yes or no questions. They were clever and searched Nicola's name and found Worser Bay school :( It was awesome.

By Dylan and Jupiter

Spanish Restaurante

Today in Spanish, we recapped on some of the things that we have learnt. 



We also learnt some Spanish words that we would need to use in a restauante. 

We will be watching this song during the week to learn our vowel sounds...

Egg White Experiment

Today we did some experiments to see what happened if we heated egg whites. We broke an egg white on an oven tray and predicted what would happen when we put it in the oven. We thought it might bubble, set, turn white, crystalise, pop, explode or flame up. Thankfully the last two didn't happen or else we might have burned the school down, but we did observe that it looked like cheese, turned from see through to white, went solid, milky and hardened up.
We also predicted what would happen if we beat the egg whites (and added sugar) and then heated them. We are excited to go back to school tomorrow to see what they are like and maybe eat them!

Mystery Skype Questions

We are very excited to learn that we will be doing a Mystery Skype tomorrow. It is when you ask questions to find out where the other school is. Today we wrote some questions that we can use to guess the school. 

Some questions we thought of:

1. Are you in NZ? Are you in Australia? Are you in London? Are you in Asia?
2. Are you in Wellington? Are you in Hamilton? Are you in Auckland? Are you in Adelaide
3. Is your school in the city?
4. Is your school big?
5. Is your school a primary school?
6. What temperature do you normally live in?
7. Does your school go to year 6, 8, 10, or 13?
8. Do you have a uniform? What colors are your uniforms?
9. Is it a private school?

By Pippa and Leola 

The Music Festival

The Cool Music Festival By Griffin

I listened for Matthias’s warning and then I started. BANG! I rolled my ball around the pot like a tornado.  Lily shouted “Dragons, dragons!” for the battle to start.  “How would I keep the ball in the pot?” I thought to myself. I kept the ball going slowly but I knew I had to go faster. Suddenly my ball flew out of the pot nearly hitting Ella!. I found it just in the nick of time as the music started for our battle performance.  Joni started and Raffy did too.  When it got to one minute Pippa, Gina and Alex started.  The battle started. Me and Ollie bashed the pots together six times. Once the battle was over it was time for the sad part and that was the last performance.

Have you ever done seven performances in one night?

by Eden

There I was standing on the stage with everybody looking at me for my school performance. I didn't know that everybody could fit in the school. I was so nervous before I heard the bell ring. Now it was time to start.  

I started to dance, clap and sing. I heard the next part and started to drum. Then it was time to dance together in slow motion.  I saw Edward get the spaceship and I knew it was time to move towards the ship.

Then we finished I was so proud of myself. But as I heard the bell ring I was really sad it had ended.  I finally saw my Mum and Dad  and I was so proud of myself.  

I felt happy to be in bed and I slept like a bear.

Dragon Attack

I was about to perform at school. It was Tuesday night and I was awake later than I usually am. Fifty eyes were watching me because the parents were watching, including mine.

It felt like I had butterflies in my stomach.I heard people chatting to others but the  audience were very patient. I was waiting to start for a long time. I heard a buzzing noise in my ear and it felt like my brain was about to burst to bits.

I liked smashing the buttons in the battle scene. My heart was pumping crazily. I stood as still as a lizard once it was all finished.

I was excited through the show because I liked playing the instruments. I was really happy because I was performing. It was really fun and exciting.

That night I was really proud of myself. I went to bed straight away because it was a very late night.

By Hunter T