Aotearoa Christmas

WOW! What a year! 

Thank you so much for choosing us to teach your children this year. We are so proud of how far they have come and what wonderful people they are!

We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and hope to see you all in the New Year.

Lots of Love

Mrs Grant and Mrs Turner

Fun Day

Here is a short video with highlights from Fun Day

Mad Scientists!

Team 8 have been learning about reversible and irreversible change.

Here is a snapshot of some of the experiments we did in class this Term.

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Mrs Turner made us a frozen hand-man. He was pretty cool. We learned that the heat from our hands was causing the frozen water inside him to melt. This was a reversible change because we can keep changing water into any of it's states (Liquid, Solid and Gas) by heating it or cooling it.

Then we made gloop (just for fun) this was REALLY hard to determine if it was a solid or liquid... It would fall through your hands like liquid but when you pressed it with your finger it felt like a solid!

We also had a go at turning Chocolate into a liquid. I guess we could have changed this back into a solid, but it was WAY more fun to eat it!!!! he he

Throughout the Term we have also made a rocket canister, tested Jelly AND exploded some glad bags. Science is sooooo much fun! Why don't you try some experiences over the holidays and leave us a comment about how it went.

Love lots,

Team 8, 2018

Mathematics in Action

You might be inclined to think that we are are on the 'wind-down' till the end of Term, in-fact here in Team 8 it is quite the opposite! We are trying to cram in as much learning as we possibly can before we say goodbye.

In Mathematics we have been learning about Mass. We have been using words like 'heavier than' and 'lighter than'.

Here is a picture of one of the balance scales we made. 

It was really fun to see what sorts of things we could pile on to make the scales balance.

We had a go at making playdough shapes too. We learned that even if we changed the shape of the playdough, its mass (or weight) stayed the same.

Maybe you could try to make a balance scale at home over the holidays. We'd love to see what things balance from your house!