Kindy reading.

Last week room 7 walked down to the kindy and read to the little kids. I read brown bear brown bear what do you see. If we read books that were to long they would loose there focus.

Air wieghs somthing

Our focus this term is science. In room7 we have been doing expiriments, one of them was was about if air weighs some thing. The first experiment we did was by putting a popped ballon at one end of a make do scale  (a ruler attached to a string) and on the other end a balloon with air in it, it turned out the ballon with air in it was heavier. The second one was an air cannon ( a buckst with glad wrap on the open end and a hole at the other) then we hit the glad wrap and hey presto a cannon and something .We leararnt that matter is anything that takes up space and wieghs something. So if air weighs a lot we were wondering why we are not being flattened. We learned that is because we have pressure and it repels the air pressure around you so the pressure is equal.

Cyber saftey

We watched this video on cyber safety and how to deal with it.

Dry ice

In week 11 term 1 room 7s bible in school teacher Mrs Graham came in and taught us about dry ice.

She explained how people use dry ice to make music by putting metal on it. She also told

us how dry ice goes strait to a gas rather than to a liquid first. then we got to have a game of ice hockey because the gas has a thin layer of gas under it

Fishy business

On Monday we got to experiment on a fish. First we had to estimate how much it would weigh. Most of us estimated that it would wiegh about 5 kgs but it weighed a good 12 kgs. Then we had to guess how long it was. We all thought that it was 1 meter long but it was 84 cm long. Then we took a fillet out and

had a look at that. Once we had done that we did an experiment on what sort of substance would remove the smell of fish best.

The substances were lemon juice, baking soda, water, vinegar, toothpaste, salt, soap and detergent. All the people in the class thought that vinegar would be the best but detergent won.

 

Silage stacking

In week 8 room 7 went to the Kelly farm to stack tyres on to the big silage stacks.

The stacks were covered by polythene plastic to keep the water off.

We ended up doing it in 2.5 hours rather than 4 hours. we ended up raising alot of money to go towards trips.  :)

 

Pencil portraits

In term one we did a self portrait of ourselfs. We had to use different shades of grey and black to show lines and other things like that. After we did that we had some practice on our eyes.