Term 4 Inquiry topic: Transport

Kids Can Cook Show

On Monday 8 August we went to a show by Kids Can Cook to teach us how to cook some things they also taught us about other cultural foods including French pancakes A.K.A crepes.The cook chose a sous chef and told us some tips about cooking while the sous chef made some crepes with apple and silverbeet. Yum! Fun fact: frogs legs taste like chicken. The chef asked us how many sides do we think an apple has - apparently an apple has six sides, wow! That’s only if you cut it though!  We really enjoyed the show.

By Finlay and Adriel

Stardome

On Monday 20th July the year 5s went to Stardome with our teachers, student teachers and parent helpers.

First we went on the bus to One Tree Hill where Stardome is.

When we got there Vannesa showed us a slideshow about space, then we got free time to look around! After that we went into a room called the Planetarium where we watched a movie happening right above our heads it was like being in space!

Finally we went back to school on the bus to eat our Morning tea and lunch.  

We had an awesome time.

By Jack

Science Roadshow

On the third of June 2015 we went to the science roadshow at Wairau Intermediate School so we could learn about ‘scientific stuff.

There were two other schools there Saint Mary's and another which I can’t remember. The guy there, I’ll call him ‘presenter’ who coinsidently presented to us a slide about water , we learnt that :

• salt water makes up 2 thirds of our planet and only 3% of the water on the planet is freshwater
• 70% of this freshwater can be found in Antarctica.

cool facts right.

After the slideshow he let us look at some totally mean machine engines, a spiky (but strangely comfortable bed of nails), a pulley chair, and a 3D printer - cool :)

The 3rd thing we did was listen to another cool bananas show about  . . . . . gherkins ( you're probably thinking what the heck do you mean ) the have a high concentration of salt, meaning a lot of salt and apparently salt is a good electrical conductor so if you're having trouble connecting 2 wires in a circuit just use a gherkin to connect them.

Then we did the tesla coil here is a picture of Nikola Tesla’s  one

 

pretty freaky how he just sits there reading his newspaper and they made one and showed it to us.

I loved going to the science roadshow I really want to go again.

By Levi

Finlay and Adriel's War Presentation

Adriel's Letter from the Trenches

Soccer

On the 22nd April 2015 Room 11 went out to the school field to practice soccer with the Football kids NZ Northern Football Federation coaches.

We played lots of fun games including Bull rush with soccer balls. This works by having one tagger in the middle and everyone else with a soccer ball trying to get to the other side without the tagger kicking the ball out of the boundary.

Next we played cowboys and cowgirls. This game works by having two people on each side of the pitch trying to kick their ball into other peoples ankles,feet or soccer balls. If they succeed they go to the side and they become a cowboy/cowgirl.The people who are not in are running to each side of the pitch (not running around in the middle).

The coaches were really cool. At lunchtime one of them even dressed up as an orange dragon and stood in the middle of the goal and blocked kicks from all the kids.

We had an awesome time and we hope that they come back to Sunnybrae school!

By Finlay and Adriel

Adriel's Persuasive Writing