WOW...it's the WOW Awards!

Look at these creative Room 10 people who entered the first CCS WOW Awards.  We are so proud of your amazing designs and clever ability to turn your ideas into real costumes!

Meet Hamish - 'Toothless' from the movie How to Train Your Dragon.

Next we have Grace - 'Queen of Recycling'.

Here's John - 'Bumblebee'.

Now we have Lily - 'Flower Girl'.

...and lastly, Anya - 'From Bags to Riches' (Cinderella).

Using strategies in maths

A group in Room 10 has been thinking about...thinking!  How do we work out problems in maths?  How do we get to an answer?  Our thinking is our 'strategy'.  Here are some examples.  The problem was about how many planks of wood you would need to build a pig pen!  The answer was 70 but you can see that there are different ways to work it out when we looked at the different sides of the pig pen:

Great strategies Joel W, Christian and Hamish!

More skipping

We told you it was catching!  Here are some more 'snippets' of skipping from Room 10:

From the top - Gabriel showing the basic jump, Hamish doing a criss cross, Namitha hopping and Petra doing a fast jump!  Well done, guys!

Hamish the scientist

Hamish showed us how to make a tornado in a bottle!  You will need:

• 2 plastic bottles
• a special joiner (which he bought from Te Manawa when he was having a special visit there with his dad).  If you don't have one of these you could experiment with the lids of the bottles - drill holes in them and join the bottles with really strong tape (duct tape).
• water!

1. You put water in one of the bottles then use the special joiner to stick the other bottle on to it upside down.  Make sure it is on tight!  Then turn it so the water is on top.

2. Then you 'swirl' the bottle around... (thanks Mrs Williams for helping!)

3. Soon you will see bubbles forming and you can stop swirling it...

4. Now you have a tornado in the bottle!