Anya the Scientist

Anya did some amazing research about our topic, "Water'.  We have been thinking about the water cycle and Anya found a diagram that shows a lot of detail.

Anya sharing her information with the class

This is the water cycle diagram Anya told us about.

Remembering Term 1

At the end of last term we made some 'word clouds' on the computer to show what we had enjoyed the most.  The words that are the biggest in the pictures are our 'favourite things' from term 1.  Can you see them?

Snowy the rabbit seems popular and so does NIE (Newspapers in Education)!

Meet Riley-Jane

Mrs Sutherland had another special visitor on Friday after school.  Mrs Williams brought her beautiful baby girl, Riley-Jane in to Room 10.  Just so that you don't miss out, here is a photo.  She will be 7 weeks old on Sunday!

Science is fun!

In case you didn't know it...science is so much fun!  Dr Ferrar came to Room 10 on Friday and surprised us all with an amazing 'show'.  There were balloons, hydrogen gas, explosions and fire!  It was spectacular!

Dr Ferrar lit a wick and when he put it up to the balloon...BOOM!  We had to stand well back and block our ears very carefully.  No Room 10 work was harmed in the making of this explosion :-)

Some of the things Room 10 said afterwards were:

• Hydrogen explodes when fire comes near it
• Scientists wear a special coat to protect their clothes when they do experiments
• The explosion was so loud!
• There was so much fire!
• Can we do that again...??!!

We learnt that hydrogen and helium both make balloons float up but that helium is expensive so it is better to use hydrogen.  We wonder if hydrogen makes a better explosion too?  It really made us ecstatic!

I see, I think, I wonder...

We have started learning about science and what scientists do.  We will be learning a lot about water this term.
Yesterday we wanted to see if ice would float or sink.  We predicted then voted about whether we thought it would sink or float.  We experimented by filling a cup and a bowl with water.  We put a BIG block of ice in the bowl...and it floated!  We put small cubes of ice in the cup and they floated too.  We were surprised because we thought the big block of ice would sink!

There really was a BIG block of ice in the bowl!  It melted really quickly!

Egg-cellent!

This is Lily and her beloved hen, Midge.  She is in her mum's vegetable garden.  The article is in the New Zealand Gardener magazine.  Now she is world famous!

Awesome Autumn!

Room 10 wrote some amazing autumn poems with Mrs Bannister on Tuesday.  We were trying to 'paint a picture' with our words.  How do you think we did?  In the afternoon we also did some art and created incredible leaf shapes to display our published poems on.  Come in and visit Room 10 to see more!  We hope you enjoy them!

Beautiful work by Martha, Maia and Anya.

Great effort by Edrei, Paula and Xander.

Here are two more poems:

Autumn by Caragh

In autumn the grass is soggy

In autumn Jack Frost has awoken and he is running across my roof

The sun is peeking through the grey clouds just to say hello

The orange, yellow and red 'butterflies' are fluttering down from the berry trees

As the smell of shepherd's pie blows across my face

In autumn the snugly clothes keep me warm.

Autumn by Christian

In autumn I go into a colourful forest

I bite into a juicy mandarin...mmm

The freezing wind talks to me "Ssshhh"

I hear rustling leaves and crackling leaves

I eat my juicy mandarin for lunch