Today in Team Wha we were thinking like Scientists again.  We took Skittles (yum) and put them into a petri dish.  We predicted what would happen...the colours will come off, the colours will mix, the water or H2O will get sucked into the Skittle and disappear.  Some really great thinking Team Wha.   This is what happened.

We learnt that because sugar is heavier than H20 the colour that comes out of the Skittle will not mix with the other colours, instead it will fall to the bottom of the petri dish.  We then decided to test if the colour that came out of the Skittle would change the flavour.  You guessed it, it doesn't change the flavour it just make it a white Skittle.  So we also discovered that food colouring has no flavour.  Some wonderful learning, questioning and predictions going on in Team Wha. A big thank you to Peyton for taking the photos.

 Samoan Language Week

In recognition this week of Samoan Language week we decided to make our own Tapa Cloths.  These are just some of the amazing efforts the children went to.  Showing some real pride, connectedness and a fantastic attitude towards their learning.  Well done Team Wha.

Thursday in Team Wha

Today we had a sharing time with kids in Team Wha telling us about different things.  Alex was super proud of his achievement last weekend with being made player of the day.  He got this neat trophy for showing a wonderful attitude to his team and helping them to do well in their game.  We are proud of you too Alex.  Well done you :)

 Team Wha has been learning all about area and we made leaf rubbings in our books so we could find the area of the leaf.

Area is all about how much space something has inside and we drew these wonderful area robots. Some of them were small or larger in area than others.

 By Alex

 By Joshua

 By Olivea

By Jak

Finding the area.

Today we went on a leaf hunt for the sole aim of finding out what the area of a leaf is.  We discovered the area of a leaf can be many things.  We used the blocks to measure this and the biggest area was 41 blocks. I wonder if you can guess who found the biggest leaf...

BANGERS AND MATHS

Measurement, measurement, measurement

What a fantastic night had by everyone 

There were so many different types of measuring activities at our Bangers and Maths evening.  Paper chains, sherbet making, IT apps and so much more.  It was a fantastic night.  

If you want the sherbet recipe this is the one we used and it was so yummy.

HOW TO MAKE SHERBET

1. Add 1 level teaspoon of citric acid to the cup
2. Add 1 level teaspoon of baking soda to the cup
3. Now add 3 dessert spoons of icing sugar to the cup
4. Add at least 2 dessert spoons of jelly crystals

MIX ALL TOGETHER AND ENJOY

A bit of useless information: 2 teaspoons are equivalent to a dessert spoon and 3 teaspoons are the equivalent a tablespoon.

This week is all about measurement.  We have been reading the story of The Grouchy Ladybug and decided to find out the size difference between the Whale and the Lady bug.  WOW - heaps of difference.  We made a chain that was 37 meters long a lady bug is only 5millimetres long.

 We the decided to lie down and measure if Team Wha was as long as a Whale.  We discovered we were not.  We learnt all about centimetres and metres as well as millimetres.  We also had fun doing it.

We had just the best time today at Keirunga Gardens.  We found at least 7 teddy bears hiding fro us in the trees.  We had fun looking for items on our Scavenger Hunt.  We got back to school and got to hang out with Room 14 our buddies.  In Team Wha today we have a the most wonderful day. We are tired though.