Reflections

The Kidd-li-winks reflected on our day in Napier using Pic Collage.

Caitlyn

Livy

Louie

Nick

Skyla

Te Au

Character Clues

The Magic Key Series is a real favourite in Room 5. The children have read many many different magic key adventure stories. 
Bottomly Potts re-read the stories to create character clues for others to guess who their character is. The character clues couldn't be too easy but needed enough information for people to read the stories and figure out who it is. 

Can you guess the characters?

 Created by Piper and Emma

 Created by Mitchell and Caitlyn

 Created by Louie and Skyla

Created by Thomas and Nathan

Science is so much fun

The Kidd-li-winks love science so much.  

We started off with 1/4 of a cup of liquid hand soap and mixed in 3/4 of a cup of warm water.

Next we stirred in 2 tablespoons of baking soda.

After that we stirred in 2 tablespoons of citric acid. The more we stirred it the bigger and more bubbly it got.

It was a chemical reaction!

It was carbon dioxide making the bubbles.

Soon it was time to play.

 Bubbles bubbles everywhere!

And we made funny noises

and drew pictures and wrote our names.

This experiment was a bonus because it cleaned our tables. They are sparkling clean.

As requested by the children I have put the amounts needed so they can do the experiments at home. 

Mixing colours

Mixing lots of different yellows

We have been learning to mix paints to make new colours and light, dark and medium colours.

Red and white make pink

Mixing different browns 

Mixing in little areas

Some of our great art work.

Cat on a roof. 

Artist Livy

Artist Ella

Artist Louie

Artist Piper

Artist Skyla

Artist Kady

Chemical Reactions

Our Science Experiment

Equipment

Cup

Baking soda

Vinegar

Food Colouring

Some of our predictions were 

The cup will explode because it has an acid and an alkaline.

It will bubble everywhere.

The colour will change when the bubbles bubble. 

Baking soda tastes yuck! Well to most people.

First we put 1/4 of a cup of baking soda in a cup.

Adding a few drops of food colouring

Slowly we poured in the vinegar.
Something is happening!

A chemical reaction!

Waves crashing over the cup

Lava bubbling out of the cup

The vinegar mixed with the baking soda and made bubbles. The bubbles are carbon dioxide. It is a gas like in fizzy drinks.

Boom! The science experiment exploded out of the cup on to the table. It was a dark dark red. The bubbles bubbled up the cup. Pop pop pop pop went the devil bubbles. The explosion speedily happened. If you want to do this experiment you will need two scoops of baking soda one cup of vinegar and four little drops of food colouring. Next you have to put the colouring and the vinegar into the cup to make it go Boom! 

Author Emma

Bubble bubble bubble the magic ingredients over flowed like a fizzy drink. It was covering the container with vinegar and baking soda. It was a chemical reaction. When the soda was ready the chemical reaction gushed down the cup. The bubbles were pouring down the cup. Then the bubbles got on the plastic lid. There were bubbles all over the plastic lid and the table.
Author Nick

Boom! The experiment exploded with bubbles coming up and up. Soon we had to watch the experiment. Soon it rose up and red bubbles appeared up fast like the wind. the experiment looked like a volcano exploding down an angry mountain. First we put in baking soda. Next we put in any colour of food colouring. Then we put in vinegar. Suddenly the experiment exploded everywhere.
Author Isaiah

Pop pop the science experiment started to crackle and fizz over the rim of the cup. Blue crashing waves smashed into the hard sand. The bubbles rose quickly up so you have to watch carefully because I nearly missed the reaction. If you want to do this experiment you've got to use food colouring, vinegar and baking soda. First you put a third of a cup in your container. Second you drip in food colouring in your container. Last of all you deposit the vinegar in the container and something impressive will happen.
Author Beau

Making colours

Beau had to show perseverance
to make his colour. Lots of adding.

Our challenge in maths was to make exact colours. We were like the paint shop where we had to match colours. We had the primary colours and had to use these to make new colours.

We had to calculate the how much of each colour we used.

George calculating how much he used
of each colour

Teague estimating how much more blue he needs
to make his green dark green

Calculations with a few water splashes

Boys making their colours 5mLs at a time
5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40

Te Au made his orange colour.

What a lot of fun with water everywhere. Surprisingly there was only one spill.  

Soccer Skills

 We are so lucky because we have soccer stars from Napier City Rovers to teach us skills. They are coming each Tuesday to teach us new skills.

This week we learnt how to dribble. 

To dribble we need to

*Use the inside, outside and the bottom of our foot

*Keep our eyes up looking out for other people (teachers can steal balls off you if you aren't looking)

*Have little touches so you have control of the ball. 

Listening carefully for our next tip to be great at dribbling

                                     

Beau doing the 'Happy Feet' skill.
Do you like his penguin arms?

We dribbled the ball around and when we heard the whistle we had to stop the ball with our foot and touch the ball with different parts of our body. It was a competition between the girls and the boys. 

I wonder who won the competition?

Can you use the clues in the picture to infer?

It was so much fun. We can't wait for next Tuesday.