Welcome to Te Māhuri's blog for 2019! Here you will find a range of different information about our school life. Keep your eyes open, subscribe to our blog and leave us comments so that we can share our knowledge with the blogging community!
Miss Clark has been with us for seven whole weeks and she was pretty cool! She came from university to come and learn about being a teacher. She watched what we did and then she started to teach us too. We learnt about our bodies and how to be healthy and she also taught us how long we should exercise and what to eat. Miss Clark taught us reading, writing and maths and she was very nice. On the last day she gave us a lovely card and did a lolly scramble! We have been missing her this week!
This week for Cybersmart we were learning to cover up things that shouldn't be shared online in our photos. We looked at Cooper's Blog and saw he had a photo of him wearing a hat that showed somewhere that he visits often.
We didn't think that was very CyberSmart because that is private information, but we liked the photo because he looked really cute. We had to change some pictures and cover up the private information so the photos were CyberSmart.
We also talked about how some information online might not be true or real, so we practiced editing photos to see how easy it is. Miss W showed us SnapChat and the filters that people can use to make things look different in a photo.
We played around and we were even able to turn some of the boys into girls, give people fake glasses and change how they looked! It was quite funny but it also showed us that not everything online is true!
This afternoon we have been working on a Pick A Path story! A Pick a Path story is when you have links and you pick a path. We have been talking about being kind to little kids, because they don't know everything yet and they watch us to know how to do things at school.
Please leave a comment and tell us what you think. Have you ever made a pick a path story before?
On Friday Miss Clark did a science experiment with us. We had to put mentos into a bottle of coke and look at the reaction. We also looked at the difference between the diet coke and the full sugar coke because we had been looking at how much sugar was in different drinks. Have a look at our video and see if you can spot the difference. Do you know what is supposed to happen?
Can you figure out why our experiment gave us different results?
We have looked really hard at the different types of drinks this week and how much sugar is in each one!
We looked at coke, sprite, red bull, fruit juice, V, ginger beer, strawberry milk, flavoured water and powerade zero.
We had to work out which one had the most sugar and then order the drinks from the most to the least sugar. We also put the teaspoons of sugar for each drink into a bag so we could see how much sugar was dissolved into the liquid.
Then we looked at how sugar can give us cavities in our teeth, because of the bacteria in our mouth. If we don't brush our teeth and we eat or drink lots of sugar then the bacteria starts to attack your teeth and make holes called cavities in your teeth, because they make acid.
What drinks do you drink and how much sugar is in them?
Last week Miss Clark taught us all about the respiratory system and how we breathe. We take the air through our mouth and nose and down our windpipe. The air travels through our windpipe and into our lungs. After it goes into your lungs some of the oxygen goes into our blood and our blood moves it around our body. We decided that we wanted to find out how much air we each breathe. We blew up a balloon in 8 seconds and then we tied it up and put them behind Miss W's desk. That first balloon was how much air we had to start with. After that we ran to the end of the field and back, then we blew up another balloon for eight seconds and we tied that up. We needed to do it at the same time, but we ended up in two groups! One straight away and then the other group ended up waiting. Then we had to measure both balloons.
We realised that most of the balloons after our run were bigger than the balloons before our run. Dylan said that this was because after our run we are puffing more than we normally do. Angel-Mey said that the balloons were bigger after our run because we took in more air than before. Bridie said that we discovered that when you blow calmly, you're putting some air into the balloon but when you're puffed you're putting extra air in. A few of us found out that our second balloons were smaller than our first one and we thought that would be the case. We thought that our second balloon would be smaller because we would have less energy and less air to spare! Miss Clark made a graph to show us how big our balloons were before and after.
What are you doing for science this term? Do you know another way to measure air? Do you think this was a fair test? Why or why not?
