Testing Day - Will our eggs survive!!

TESTING DAY:

Egg Drop!!!

Have a look at our video to see what happened... 

Making our egg parachutes!

The next session was making day!

Is it going to work?

How high will the walls be?

Where will we stick this and that?

Will it be strong enough for the egg not to crack???

Our Technology Challenge With Miss Graham

Our Technology Challenge

Our Brief:  To design and create a parachute to safely drop a raw egg from a height without the egg cracking.

What materials we were allowed to use:

* 3 A4 pieces of paper

*  A piece of A5 card

*  1 Plastic bag

*  1 metre of string

*  tape and scissors

Planning Stage:

We chose our own groups and then began to draw our ideas on paper.  We had to listen to each others ideas and then agree on which ones we would use.  Some groups decided who would make each part of the design. Here are a couple of our photos at the planning stage.

Ross Creek on a plate

'Ross Creek' on a plate!

One of the children brought in to school an arts and craft book to share at book selling and found this wonderful idea for homework.  It was to create a garden on a plate.  We adapted the idea to create 'Ross Creek' on a plate.  Here is what the children and their families came up with.  Once again Room 9, you have blown me away with your creativity!

Ross Creek Mural

We have been very lucky to have Miss Graham with us for the last two weeks from the University of Otago.  She is in her 2nd year of her teacher training course.  Miss Graham loves art and she helped us to create a wonderful Ross Creek mural.  The children worked very hard with Miss Graham to create their masterpiece.  Here are some photos of the experience.

Our 1st visit to Ross Creek

As part of our topic for this term we are learning all about Ross Creek and how it is a treasured recreational reserve for  our community at Maori Hill.  The junior school set off to explore what Ross Creek had to offer and they were not disappointed!

 We had a wonderful walk exploring, using four out of our five senses;  looking, listening, touching and smelling and we used our 'writers notebooks' to capture our memories as we went so we could turn it into some descriptive writing.  Here are a few of the children's pieces about Ross Creek.

ROSS CREEK

I felt excited when I first entered Ross Creek. I felt air tingling on my face and warmth coming down between trees. Birds were tweeting and fantails were fluttering about. We walked on slippery rocks with beautiful blue streams around the rocks. There were little mushroom cities and fluffy moss everywhere.  I saw colourful leaves falling to the ground and bumpy bark coming off trees. I can’t wait to go there again.

By Hannah Hemi

Ross Creek

As I entered Ross Creek a SHIVER went down my spine because the temperature dropped. When I was walking I saw a fallen tree and some bark was hanging off the tree. The tree leaned up against a skinny thin tree like it had fainted. As I went on, I saw millions of little cute mushrooms. They looked like mushroom homes for fairies. When my group got starving, Thomas’s mum got out some CHOCOLATE. We had three PIECES each.    Then we started to say “more chocolate please!” Then she gave us three more PIECES. Suddenly we saw a creek. I put my foot in it. It was icy cold.  Ross Creek was AMAZING. I can’t wait to go again.

By Harry Easton.

My Adventure In Ross Creek

As we stepped past the sign, a cold chill went down my spine like waves crashing against the shore. The trees were twisty and crooked. I hoped I wouldn’t fall off the edge of the track. It was like a haunted forest, but there were just no ghosts. I could smell a soily, musty smell among the trees, as if someone had stinky feet in a strong scent, Eeewww! The branches that hung over us were chipped like the ragged old clothes of a pirate. The stream made trickling noises. It was whooshing and whirling, twisting and twirling. The mushrooms were like fairy houses. And then I knew, that was an adventure I would never forget.

By Amelie Warlow

Ross creek

As I  heard people saying we were there , my heart  started to rise with happiness . We were at Ross Creek. The first things I saw were... people entering of course and obviously gorgeous trees. 

Next we started walking.  I heard the chit chat of children voices.Then I just saw the most amazing sight. It was a billion tiny mushrooms just sitting there looking like smurf houses in their cottage. Next I tasted and smelt fresh air blowing past my nose. After that I saw the most coolest sight, it was a tree with bark peeling away like thrown away banana peel, some falling and some not but they were amazing.  I then saw two spider webs. They looked awesome and they looked like bubbles forming. Then  finally I crossed a gorgeous... creek .The water was rushing so so fast.  We moved on and suddenly stopped because that was as far as we were allowed to go . We turned around and  carried on all the way back to school. I had so much fun that I wished  I could do that all again another day. 

By Harriet Miller

Space Art

Room 9's Fabulous Space Art!

As we have been learning about space this term, Mrs Weatherly thought it would be fun to create our very own wacky space crafts using water colour paints. We were allowed to be as creative as we wanted!  We used pastels to colour in some bright planets then cut it all out to stick onto black paper.  Once we had positioned all of our work we then used some colourful chalk to put in stars and comets.  Finally Mrs Weatherly took a photo of us all and put us into each of our rockets.  Here is our finished work.

Room 9's Awesome Sunglasses!

ROOM 9's AWESOME SUNGLASSES!

As part of our technology in term 1 we were looking at designing our very own funky sunglasses prototype.  The children had to think carefully about their design and what would make them exciting for children to wear.  The children worked very hard problem solving how to join different types of materials together, ensuring their sunglasses could stay on their faces and of course the embellishments - to make them look super amazing. Here are the finished prototypes!

Keynote Presentation: Earth

Keynote Presentation - Uranus

Keynote presentation: Venus

Keynote Presentation: Jupiter

Keynote Presentation: Mercury

Keynote Presentation: Neptune

Keynote Presentation: Saturn

Keynote Presentation: Mars

Star Trekking Through our Universe Keynote presentations

Keynote Presentations

Room 9 have thoroughly enjoyed making their keynote presentations on planets in our solar system and sharing them with Room 8.  The children have worked very hard on researching information about their chosen planet.  The children then sorted through all of their information and grouped their ideas together using key questions.  They then used the 'keynote' program to present their information about their planets.  I hope you enjoy watching them.

Homework Rockets

Have a look at some of the truly amazing rockets the children created for their homework.  They needed to think carefully about what they had learnt about their planet that they were studying. The children needed to design special features on their rocket ship that would help them to either land on or fly around the planet they were inquiring about.

Welcome to Room 9's Blog

WELCOME TO ROOM 9's BLOG

On this blog I hope you will see some of the amazing things that Room 9 have achieved.  We will use it to record our learning experiences so we can share all of our learning with friends and family.

At the end of each week the class will get together and write something on the blog and upload some of our photos from the week to illustrate our writing and learning experiences. This is a chance to write to a real audience. As you become more familiar with the blog it would be wonderful if you could comment on the blog to Room 9.