Finding Out And Reporting Back

This afternoon we have been researching about what could possibly be underground. We then had to report what we found out back to the class. We were finding out about: living underground, volcanos, dinosaurs, fossils, rocks, and earthworms.

Operetta 2016 - Turangawaewae

The One And Only Super Rat Dude

My rat is now super rat - he is made of ice block sticks, 2d shapes and some cubes. He's got 2 swords, 2 guns, a jetpack and a power source. His super power is to shrink.

My Amazing Creation

This Is My Amazing Art Peace. It Was Very Hard To Make It Took Me Before And After Lunch WOW That Is Was A Long Time To Make. It Was Supposed To Be A Raft But I Got Carried Away And Made This..... Do You Think Its Cool. I Used Many Different Coloured Blocks And Purple And Blue Ice block Sticks. In My Opinion I Think It Was Pretty Cool. It Broke A Few Times But I Managed To Do It! I Also Added A Turquoise Ice Block Stick. Can You Spot It?

Curtis's House

This is my old house. We had two bedrooms, one kitchen, a fire place, a deck and two doors to go in and out. Me and my brothers bedroom was small but we could fit our three beds in. My bed is yellow, Nicolas had a green one and Lucas had a blue one. Tawhiti slept with my Mum. We had a pet dog called Reneak and Ceasar. Also we lived quite close to our Nan. We used to visit each other every single day.

Colour Changing Daffodils

Room 10 carried out a science experiment to see if daffodils could change colours through the veins in their petals.

First Mrs Maunsell put water into the three cups.  Then we cut a little part off the stems diagonally.  Second we put the daffodils into the cups of water.  Now it was time for the food colouring!  Kelemete put the red food colouring into one cup and Jerome put the blue food colouring into another cup.  We left the last one plain.

It was going to turn out incredible.

When we got to school on Monday the transformation had been completed.  The daffodil in the red food colouring didn’t have red, it had orange in its veins!  The daffodil in the blue food colouring didn’t have blue, it had green in its veins!  Red plus yellow equals orange.  Blue plus yellow equals green.  The one with no food colouring didn’t change.  

The petals changed colour in their veins because the daffodil sucked up the food colouring.  Then it went into their veins.  That is called capillary action.  What happened to the daffodils was extraordinary and very cool.  The daffodils showed us how they sucked up the water through their stem to their petals.

Written by Anahera

Operetta 2016 - Turangiwaewae

Our scene in this year's Operetta takes place early last century, when New Zealand was involved in World War 1 and World War II. These are the soldiers from the Maori Battalion. Come and enjoy the show next week. The show is looking amazing.

Blobs in a Bottle

We want to explain how we made the blobs in a bottle that looked like a lava lamp. First we put ¾ of a cup of water in a bottle. Second we filled up the bottle with vegetable oil. Third we put 10 drops of food colouring into the bottle. We had to wait and watch the food colouring go down to the water. Fourth we broke a berocca tablets in half and put half into the bottle. Next we watched to see what would happen: the dark bluey/greeny coloured sphere shaped blobs went up and down very slowly in a oval shaped pattern. Then it went to sleep like a lazy volcano, with the water at the bottom and the oil at the top. Written by Room 10

Room 10's Movie About the Hamilton Bridges

Dantes War ship

One rainy Monday I was working on making a war ship. This war ship was made out of Knex but it didn't take long to make. I got a little bit of help from Maz to make it too. This war ship can reload really easy it also can charge up to fire a big rocket and bring it back again.

Our model of the Union bridge

Our model of the union bridge was made out of dull orange Popsicle sticks. The bridge was washed away during a flood in1907.It was rebuilt and named Victoria bridge.On the side of the union bridge there were zigzags. So with a thick piece of paper and a sharpie we drew some zigzags.

Our ASB Get Wise Lesson With Kimble

Today Kimble came to teach us about being financially literate. He made us laugh when he pretended to be a caveman. Then when he was a pirate Flynn predicted he was going to split his pants and he did! We have learnt that a long time ago people used to trade what they had for something they wanted. We learnt that a bank is a safe place to keep our money so it doesn't get lost or stolen. We can get an eftpos card so we can get our money out of the bank but only if our Mum or Dad says we can. Kimble talked to us about doing chores so we could earn some money. We learnt it is a good idea to spend some money on us but also to save some too, Shanil, Jackson and Jahquinia helped Kimble teach us it is important to shop around to save money.

My Super Epic Build

This is a awesome build because it looks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo cool. At the back of it (with the long wheels) it has a little drone that can be unattached and it can fly around. It can also split into three pieces. The top piece has rapid fire! The middle piece has charge attack! Now comes the last piece. The last piece can fly around attacking from the skys! Written by Flynn

My Epic Build

Our Science Experiment

We set out 7 cups and then we put water in every second cup. We put red, yellow, or blue food coloring into the water filled cups. Then we folded up 6 paper towels and put them into the cups. One end went in one cup and the other end went in the cup next door. We waited for three hours and this is what happened. The water moved into the empty cups through the paper towels and made different colors. We started with red, yellow and blue. We made orange, purple and green.

When we got back after leaving the water and paper towels in the cups over the weekend - look what had happened!  All the cups had an equal amount of water.  Plus our yellow water had turned orange, our green water was very green and our purple water was really purple.

Watch Our Pepeha

Please visit our "Learning Te Reo Maori" page to hear all of the students Pepeha.  A Pepeha is the way in which you introduce yourself in Maori.  Apart from learning their Pepeha, the students learnt a lot recording them for you.  This included; how to take a photo, how important it is to speak loud and clear,  as well as how to use the Explain Everything App on our IPads. Here's Harlynn's:

Balloons Over Waikato

As part of the Balloons Over Waikato Festival, Marian Catholic School invited all the Hamilton East School students to share their visit of a Hot Air Balloon from the Waikato Hot Air Balloon Club.  It fitted in perfectly with Room 9 and 10's swimming lesson at Hamilton Boys' High School on Thursday 17 March.  The whole of Totara Team and Kowhai Team walked around and joined us there.  We were all very patient and well behaved.  In fact we were so well behaved that the Balloon's pilot and crew commented that we were the best behaved schools they have ever visited.

Visiting Marian Catholic School to see the Hot Air Balloon as part of Balloons Over Waikato on PhotoPeach

Swimming Lessons at Hamilton Boys' High

Since 3 March, we have been receiving swimming lessons through the Find Your Field of Dreams Trust.  Every Thursday we walk to Hamilton Boys' High with Room 9 and Whaea Georgia for our lessons in their lovely heated swimming complex.  We are so lucky to be having these lessons for free.  Click on the link below to see some photos of us with our amazing swimming instructors.

Swimming Lessons on PhotoPeach

Welcome to Room 10

Here are the beautiful students who are in Room 10 for 2016.  We just wanted to make sure you knew what room we are in.