2021 Operetta - Te Ra

During Week 3 of Term 3 here we are concentrating really hard as we practice for our class item. Fingers crossed the show will go on ...

The NRG Science Box from the House of Science

We were lucky to have a Science Box in Room 10 last week. It was based on the story of how Maui Slowed down the Sun.  We undertook three different experiments.

The first experiment was to see what colour paper attracted the most heat from the sun. Was it white, red, black or tinfoil? We had to keep an eye on the weather and as soon as the sun came out, we were out on the court with our thermometers, paper and stopwatches. 

We had to design our own experiment to see what type of fabric was the best insulator.  We finally worked out we could put hot water into a cannister that we wrapped with different types of fabric. We measured the temperature at the start and the temperature at the end of a set time to see which fabric held in the heat the best.

The very last experiment was to see which sunscreen was the most effective in cutting out the UV rays from the sun.  We smeared a small amount of sunscreen on a piece of film and placed some UV beads under the film.  We then used the stopwatch to time how long it took before the beads changed colour.  This was another day we needed the sun to shine.

 

Term 3 is Operetta!

 This term is Operetta, so Catherine decided we need to visit Room 17 to work learn how they dramatically present their poem of the week.  We worked really well with the students in Room 17 and had a lot of fun presenting our poems to the class.  Thanks Whaea Kat for your help. We learnt a lot. 

The Day the Bee-Bots Came to Visit

We borrowed the Bee-Bots from Kowhai Team so that we could have a go at coding them. We had to work collaboratively in our groups, deciding where we wanted the Bee-Bots to go, recording this and then inputting this into the Bee-Bots. When we pushed go we were able to see the output - the Bee-Bots following our directions. We all worked really well together, with everyone have a different role to play so that we were successful.

NZ History - what we discovered about Waikato's History

Early this term we went to visit the Waikato Museum to see the Shaping Hamilton Huringa Kirikiriroa Exhibition. We also went to visit Seeley's Gully. The question we wanted to answer was: This is Thomas's explanation of why the Pa is no longer there: The Māori King Tāwhiao said, "If you cross this river (Mangatawhiri) there will be war." General Duncan Cameron led his soldiers across the river and the war begun. Battles took place at Rangiriri, Orako, Ngāruawāhia and many other places. Pakeha confiscated massive amounts of land. They raided Pa, confiscated Pa and burnt Pa. But the big reason Pakeha started the war was because there was a Māori King and Pakeha saw this as a major threat. The British gave the land they confiscated to the soldiers. The soldiers moved onto that land while the Māori were driven out. Some Māori fought alongside the British because they thought if they did they would be able to keep their land but they didn't. The Pa in Seeleys Gully was either burnt, confiscated, or raided but I think it got destroyed by the Pākeha after they drove the Māori out.

Before we start looking into the History of Aotearoa/NZ, let's see what we already know.

We wrote some amazing Character Portraits based around our Role Models!