Lava in a cup

Lava in a Cup

We had fun doing some science experiments, learning about change of state.

In this experiment we used:

water

oil

food colouring

salt

When we put the water and oil in the jar the oil floated on top of the water.  They didn't mix.  We added food colouring so that it looked like lava.  Everyone had turns putting some salt in and it sank to the bottom of the jar.  Then small lumps of salt floated back up to the top and it looked like bubbling reddish lumps of lava.

Shared Reading in Room8 - Kiwi Kids News.

For shared reading in Room 8 we like to check out the news stories on the Kiwi Kids News website.
This morning, for example, we read an article about an automatic bed maker.  The electric bed-maker was programmed to make the bed when the person got out.  Two mechanical arms popped up and attached themselves to the blanket, and pulled the blanket straight while the pillows were lifted up by two claws.  We think this would be an excellent bed to have because lots of people in room 8 are a bit lazy about making their own beds.
This bed has been designed in Spain and will be on the market soon.  If you would like to see this, try this link.


http://www.gadgetreview.com/2012/06/ohea-smart-bed.html

The website is called  kiwikidsnews.co.nz.

Our tadpoles are nearly frogs!

Room 8 have got tadpoles.  As you can see, they are developing into frogs.  The tadpoles that have grown legs, but are still swimming in the water, are called froglets. When a creature like a frog changes from one type of animal to another it is called metamorphosis. Frogs are a special type of animal called amphibians.  Amphibious animals can breathe in the water and survive on land. 

Oliver and Blake are going to make some fly-traps so that we can catch some live flies for the frogs.  The boys will need to make them soon because it looks like one of the froglets will be a frog any day now!

This is the habitat we made for the frogs.  They need to be able to get out of the water and onto land when they have finished growing their legs.

Harvest Festival

We made a salsa for our school's harvest festival to celebrate growing and harvesting food at Hamilton East School.

Schools Day Out

Room eight saw some alpacas at the 'Schools Day Out' event at Claudelands Event Centre. There was a cria which is a baby alpaca.  The cria was only 4 days old.

Some lucky children got to lead some alpacas around an obstacle course. The alpacas didn't always want to go in the right direction.

Marae Trip

Room 8 went to the museum to see the exhibition 'How to Make a Monster'. 

We got to move the exhibits by pressing buttons and pulling levers.  Some of the monsters made sounds, too.

There was a big monster in the North pole and a monster in the South Pole and they were talking to each other on the phone. These monsters were for an advertisement showing phones that could call from anywhere in the world.

A monster came out of the elevator!!  It turned out to be Rebecca, Oliver, Avikash, Angel, Lachlan, Tayla-Jayde, Blake, Akari and Josh dressed up and making the monster move.

We also got to put on a play showing a legend about a tree that turned into an ugly taniwha who didn't have any friends.  But at the end of the story another taniwha made friends with the ugly taniwha called Waiwaia.