Kapa Haka

Kapa haka with Miss Smith is pretty fun! Today we practised the waiata from the past two terms for Mrs Hyslop because she hasn't seen us perform anything. She thinks we are tu meke at the waiata!

Science with Henrica

On Tuesday Henrica came down to see us from the University of Otago and showed us some cool science experiments, the first one she showed us was one with coke and milk, she put some milk into a glass of budget coke and we left it till later. When we looked after we did our other experiment we saw that the acid in the coke had eaten all the calcium out of the milk.

We also did a fun spud gun experiment where we had a long straw and a skewer and and we stuck a piece of potato in each end and then pushed one end up the straw to shoot the front piece out. This happened because of the air pressure that built up in the straw and the friction on the pieces of potato. 

After we finished we talked about taking our results and making tables and graphs to record what we found out, then we had to scramble around the tennis court to find the pieces the birds hadn't got, so they wouldn't grow into potato plants on the turf. 

We all thought our experiments were really fun, and we are now thinking of doing a follow up spud gun experiment to finish.

Holly

Science Words

Expanding in Science

Today we did some science experiments involving ice and heat. We were focussing on observing the reactions and making predictions about what was going to happen.

The ice is melting inside the cup of water, the level of water didn't increase as much as we predicted because when water freezes it expands.

We placed a balloon over the top of an empty bottle and then put the bottle into a bowl of hot water. We predicted that the balloon would rise because the air in the  bottle would hear up and expand which in turn will make the balloon rise and grow in size. We also predicted that the small bottle would have a bigger balloon as the area was smaller. The boiling water makes steam which acts like a hot air balloon and makes the ballon expand, both balloons rose to the same diameter and height.

Triangle Geometry

Last week with Mrs A we studied the geometry of triangles. We looked at Equilateral triangles, Scalene triangles and Isosceles triangles. There are also three main angles, Obtuse angles, Acute angles and Right angles.

All triangles are polygons with three sides, three interior  angles that all add up to 180 degrees.

Triangles come in different shapes and sizes and each type has a different name.

Equilateral Triangle

Equilateral triangles have three equal sides.

They have three equal angles, always 60 degrees.

They always have acute angles (less than 90 degrees).

Isosceles Triangle

Isosceles triangles have two equal sides.

They have two equal angles.

Their angles are usually acute.

Scalene Triangle

Scalene triangles have no equal sides.

They have no equal angles

Their angles are obtuse (more than 90 degrees)

Working on our triangles

Kids in the Kitchen

7/8/15

Today the year sixes used their cookbooks from Clued up Kids called 'Kids in the Kitchen' to try out a recipe called salmon and potato cakes. 

First we peeled the potatoes and then we cut them up and put them in a pot to cook while Lucy opened the salmon can. Then we got to look up information about potatoes, we found a song about potatoes, here's the link https://youtu.be/q7uyKYeGPdE. Next we cut up some bacon and put in a pot with some onions while Leah chopped up parsley. We whisked up two eggs and put it in a bowl with corn, bacon, mashed potatoes, salt and pepper. We mixed that and rolled little balls into bread crumbs and cooked them in a little oil. We also made another batch where we added one egg, salt, pepper, salmon, mashed potatoes and parsley and then rolled balls of the mixture into bread crumbs and then cooked them they where DELICIOUS!!!

Harold

On Monday Harold the Life Education bus came to Warepa School to teach us about our body. 

Some things that we learnt are that our brain has over 100 billon neurons and our brain weighs 1.5 kg. We also learnt about our organs, if you roll out your teachers lungs they will be as long as a tennis court! We also learnt that your stomach is as big as your fist, it can hold up to1.5 litres of food.

We were given some cards which had examples of stress on them, we came up with different ways such as breathing, trying to relax, eat, talk to someone. 

Finally we did some karaoke with Harold, the girls sang louder than the boys and there are only 5 girls in our class!

By Isla and Callum :):)

The Human Body - our major organs.

Neurons in our brain.

Harold singing us Karaoke!

The Stafix Comp

Last term Mrs Bissett entered a Stafix competition to try to win some money for a new school van that will benefit our school and the community.

There was prize money for first, second and third place.

The top prize money was five thousand dollars, the second prize was three thousand dollars and third was two thousand dollars.

We came third!!!! 

On the 6th of August some Stafix men came to present the cheque of $2,000. He asked us some question about different things like fencing gear and Highlanders. If you got the answer right you would won a free highlanders hat.

We will spend the money wisely on our new school van!

The Stafix men who presented our cheque - Thank you!!

The awesome Highlanders hats that some lucky children won!!

The whole school posing with the cheque!

Written by Leah & Blake