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