School gala written by BLAKE,CHARLES and CHRIS

On Friday the 17th  we had our school gala. It was so cool to see all the parents there. Every kid was at their stall waiting for a customer to come. Here are some photos,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

of us at the gala. ps the school made $ 2,875 and 24 cents.

Room 6 Science Day 2013

Room 6 Science Day

EXPERIMENTS IN ROOM 6

• DANCING SULTANAS
• DISSOLVING SOLIDS
• OOBLECK
• LAVA LAMP
• MENTOS GEYSER
• REACTIONS - INFLATING A BALLOON
• SECRET MESSAGES

Room 6 splited up into two even groups with Miss Phillips and Mrs Robinson.

 Frist of all we tried

 DANCING SULTANAS.

These are the steps   

1. We poured the soda water into the bowl 

1. Next we added the sultanas one at a time gently into the soda water.2.
2. We poured three quarters of the soda water into the bowl, and then each of us gently dropped a sultana into the water. 
3. We then predicted what would happen. 

What Happened:  When we dropped a sultana in the water slowly they started to float up and down. We tried a sultana in ordinary water but it didn’t have the same reaction.

Next we tried Oobleck.

Oobleck

Oobleck is a non-newtonian fluid, that means it acts like a liquid when being poured, but like a solid when a force is acting on it. If you can make enough Oobleck you can even walk on it.

Recipe:

Water, Corn Starch and a drop of food colouring. (Optional)

1. We poured some corn starch into a bowl and added  the water to the mixture
2. We then started mixing the two together. 
3. We mixed until hard stuff (Oobleck) was at the bottom.

4          We grabbed the mixture out of the bowl and started to play. By the time we were finished the       court was covered in Oobleck.

     When we touched the Oobleck it was hard and when we tipped it from hand to hand it turned to a  liquid.

We had a lot of fun and excitemen. It  was a great day playing and learning with science.

 

 Dancing Sultanas

   Dissolving Solids

Jeremy doesn't like that smell.

 Oobleck

See how it is a solid that turns into a liquid...

 Class projects

By Caitlyn & Ana & Chloe

Book Week at Korakonui

Book Week

Book Week has been a blast at Korakonui School!

We started off with buddy reading. The seniors mixed with the juniors and they read to each other their favourite books they liked to read.

We had some Dads come in and show us what they like to read.  Duncan Parrott showed us his comics that he treasured when he was our age. Thomas Bull showed what he likes to read now days. He reads hunting magazines and the newspaper. Mark Sweeny also came in to share what he likes to read.

THANK YOU to all the Dads that took their time out of work to come share their books with us.

Students take their time to look after the library in there break. A BIG THANK YOU to Pinzy and Tessa for setting up the library for book fair and all your nonstop help to look after our library also a BIG THANKS to all helpers to keep our library spick and span.

On Thursday we had Zedong the story teller he showed us his wonderful quilt and told us his many stories of his insisters. A BIG THANK YOU to Zedong

All week there was a book fair in the library and the students would have come home with a big list of all the books they wanted to buy.

On Friday we had book character dress up day all the students came to school dressed up as their favourite book characters. All the staff dressed up as Woolly. You look great staff! We all did a pride on the stage to show of our impressive work on our character day MAN WE LOOKED GREAT! Well done to our winners! The winners got to pick a $20 book. There where spot prizes and they got bookmarks.

By Nikki & Paige

 

 

 

Triathlon

Triathlon

Bike… Run… Swim

Juniors

Juniors Biked 2 laps of the tennis court, 1 lap of the field and 2 width lengths of the pool. Gosh that bunny rabbit was tried.

Seniors

Seniors Biked 2 laps of the field, 1 lap running and 2 lengths of the pool. From bunny rabbiting the juniors they were all VERY tired for their race.

Parents

“What you have all been waiting for…” Give a round of applause for the parents.

• Rules…
•  NO Cheating
•   NO Walking      
• Well just NO Cheating really.
• JUST HAVE FUN.

Created By Caitlyn & Annabelle 

Happy Birthday Annabelle

Day Three at Camp Tapu

 

Day three of camp

HEY GUYS!

TODAY WE DID WATER ACTIVITIES.  IT WAS VERY JAM PACKED. WE DIVIDED INTO two different GROUPS.

THE FIRST GROUP  WANDEReD DOWN THE BEACH  READY TO LEARN HOW TO SAIL ,KAYAK AND PADDLEBOARD .

 

THE KAYAKING WAS VERY CHALLENGING!  we had TO RAFT UP AND WE HAD TO GET INTO EACH other's KAYAKs- THAT  DID NOT GO SO WELL.

 

ANY WAY  THEY SAY ONE OF THE ADULTS [CRAIG  Mc CULLOUGH ] COULD NOT GET THE HANG OF SAILING AND TIPPED THE YELLOW  SAIL BOAT , AND SPENT MOST OF THE TIME SCOOPING OUT WATER OF THE SAIL BOAT  WHILE THE OTHER PARENTS GOT THE HANG OF IT, UNTIL THE END WERE THE PARENTS HAD TO BE TOWED IN.

 

WHILE this was happening down at the beach, THE OTHER  HALF ENJOYED A WALK UP A STREAM TO A BEAUTIFUL WATER HOLE. MOST OF THEM SAY THEY JUMPED OFF A ROCK INTO A DEEP  WATER HOLE BUT THE  RULES WERE TO JUMP AS FAR AS YOU CAN OTHER WISE YOU Would HAVE BIG SWoLLEN PURPLE BRUISE.

 

THEN  WE HAD A BBQ LUNCH AND THEY SWAPED OVER.

that’s  IT FOR NOW THIS WAS RILEY WYBER AND PAIGE GIBBERD REPORTING  TO YOU LIVE ON  THE INTERNET.

Day Two at Camp Tapu

 Today we ventured into the Kauranga Valley. A very dusty, gravel road lead us to the start of the walk to Cookson's Kauri. We headed off, full of energy. Before too long we came across our first flight of stairs, followed by another, and another, and another. There were 705 stairs altogether!! (Yes we counted). The energy we started with began to fade. Luckily we had some strong Dads who acted as pack horses for some of us-carrying up to 3 extra backpacks!! We were relieved to see the sign which said there was only 15 minutes to go until we got to Cookson's Kauri and the lunch stop.

 

After our walk we were feeling rather hot and bothered. A swim was in order!! We arrived at a magical spot-Hoffman's Pool. It was pretty chilly though. A rock at least 5 metres high was a great launching spot to jump into the pool. Most of us had a go-including the parents and Miss Phillips!!!

 

 

We enjoyed finishing off our day watching a movie under the stars with children from Tapu School.

Day One of Camp

Day 1 for Camp Tapu

 

When we arrived at camp we had to set up the

tents. That was kind of tricky.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today we challenged ourselves with all of the

outdoor activites.

 Some of the activities were beach volleyball,

snorkelling, Rock Run, orienteering and

fishing on the boat.

Each group had a go on the boat to try catch

some fish. The only fish we knew we could

catch were, Snapper, and BIG Kahawai.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The first group on the boat was group 1 and

they came back with 1 Snapper and 1 Kahawai.

They also saw a baby Hammer Head shark

swimming in search of a meal.

Group 5 caught 1 Snapper by Blake.  Riley and

Jeremy both caught 3 fish that had to be let go.

 

By Caitlyn and Blake J