Welcome to 2017

Tena koutou and welcome to Room 10's class blog for 2017. This year Room 10 will be a Year 4 and 5 class in the Kauri team. Their teacher is Whaea Georgia. Please come and see us in Room 10 to find out about who we are and our learning. Check back here for regular blog posts about current learning too. 

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