Visiting Harold in the Life Ed. Truck

We went to visit Harold in the Life Education Truck. He taught us about the respiratory cycle and why clean air is important. You can find some of our stories on the Life Education Facebook page. Here is a link to the photos we took with Harold as he explained how trees give us oxygen, which we breath in through our mouth and nose. It goes down our windpipe, or trachea and into our lungs. From the lungs it goes into the drops of blood that the heart pumps all around the body. Oxygen gives our muscles energy. They release carbon dioxide which goes back to our lungs in the blood, it then goes up the wind pipe, or trachea, to breath out our nose and mouth. The carbon dioxide is then absorbed by the trees. The trees then make this into oxygen and the cycle starts again.

Ordering the Cups

Harvey, Renny and Ben worked on the coloured cup challenge. We didn't have cups so substituted coloured popsicle sticks. Then we did not have a white stick so used a purple stick instead. Do you agree with their solution?

Don't Throw That Away!

The Tui's group read 'Don't Throw That Away' last week. It was a story about a girl who collected unwanted materials to make a dragon. This is Ben, Skye, Jasper, Connor and Lincoln's dragon.

Stream visit

We had a wonderful day at Dorothy Falls Stream. We found lots of mayflies, stoneflies, and damselflies under the rocks. Our father helpers netted an eel! Thanks to Lauren from Department of Conservation who showed us how to kick net and helped identify our critters. We had a lovely walk around the Kahikatea Walk at Sunny bight before lunch. We are learning how to identify fresh water that is safe to drink, and learning how we can help to keep our water clean.

Maths problem of the week

Name the Pets: Four pets are kept in cages in the rectangular backyard. There is a cage on each fence. There is a rabbit, a hen, a guinea pig and a rooster. There names are: Chip, Tommy, Dale and Mickey. Use the clues below to name the pets. 1. the guinea pig is next to the hen and the rooster. 2. Dale is opposite the guinea pig. 3. The hen is Chip. 4. Mickey is opposite the hen.

Slime Time

WE have had a wonderful time making slime in Room 4. it took a couple of goes to get right but now we think we have refined the art of Slime. We used Mr Science Slime Time recipe: 1/4 teaspoon Guar Gum, borax solution, glitter, two drops of Food colouring and 100ml of water. First we mixed the borax in a cup of water and set it aside. Then we got 100ml of water and sprinkled the guar gum on stirring as we added it so we did not have any lumps. Next we added two drops of food colouring and stirred. Then we added 2ml of the borax, and stirred, stirred in the glitter then 2 more ml of borax solution. We were very proud of our efforts

How many ways can we make $1

Today we looked at how many different ways we could make $1. We found out that the least number of coins was one (a $1 coin). The most coins we could use was 10 (ten 10 cent coins). How many other ways can you make $1?