Precipitation

Rain in a jar

To make this you will need:
A jar
Water
Shaving cream
Blue dye
5 ml syringe

Method:
First we put water in our jar. Then we put a thin layer of shaving cream. When this was ready and covering the water we carefully dropped 5 drops of blue dye in and watched what happened.

It was like slow motion rain. The blue dye acted like precipitation and slowly went to the bottom of the jar.

This is easy to do if you want to try it at home.

Term 2 update notices

• Please look in your child's bag for a notice re Seesaw. We need to change our individual blogs as Easy Blogger has shut down due to circumstances beyond our control. You will receive information about how to view your child's new blog on Seesaw. Below is a screen shot from our Seesaw main page.

• We have a paid union meeting on Monday, we are asking that you please collect your children at 12.30 in order for us to attend. Thank you
• We will be moving classes during the holidays. Our new build is due to be ready in the first week of the school holidays. We will continue to be known as Room 18, Ruru Hub, Tōtara Team.

Any questions feel free to email me. 

Thanks, Hine

Making a korowai

We have been working together as a team to create a class korowai.

Look at our videos to see our process. 

We asked Miss August's mum some questions about making a korowai. 

Inquiry writing

We have been learning about explanation writing. Our inquiry this term is about 'Human impact on planet earth' so we have been looking at our planet and what happens on earth.

We have written about how earthquakes happen, about volcanoes, the life cycle of a turtle to name a few! We post some of our writing to our easy blogs.

Here is a piece from Tyson. You can view it on his blog too.

Sea Turtles

A sea turtle has four phases of its life cycle. 

Phase one: egg a mother turtle lays about one thousand eggs in a nesting pit high on the beach. 

When the eggs start to hatch it is phase two. This phase they are hatchlings. The little turtles continue their desperate dash for the seas repelling force. 

Then phase three: juvenile. The vulnerable turtles swim frantically forwards then the last stage is adulthood. The adult turtles lay more eggs and the stages repeat over again-egg, hatchling, juvenile and last but not least adult. 

At approximately two decades of age, the turtles change their size from the size of a dinner plate to the size of a dinner table.