Museum Trip 2013 Rm 6

MUSEUM   TRIP

THURSDAY THE 20^TH OF JUNE 2013 

Hi all,

  It’s been a while since we have blogged because we have been  non - stop  learning about Matariki which means "eyes of god" or "tiny eyes". Matariki is also the name of the Maori New Year where you see the constellation of 7 stars in the sky. Finally the day came and it was time to go to  the museum. Thank you to the parents that transported us to the museum.  We soon arrived and Alan Reiley ( The museum educator)  had a slideshow  to see what kind of Manu Tukutuku kites they made in the older days. He then showed us the materials we were going to use. All of us started  with blank  minds on how we were going to make the kites. Our materials we had were flax and some other materials. Then he showed us how to make them while we  were in groups of 3 our 4 . He showed us how to make the Manu Tukutuku kites step by  step. Soon we finished with the help of  parents the teachers and Alan Reiley.And man do they  look amazing.

Caitlyn , Annabelle , Boston and Paul were in a  grop

Paige , Pip and Nikki were in a group.

It was a great day for cross country. All the children were amped for the big day. We would like to thank Sam, Catherine and Daniel White for building the track and letting us use your farm. Also a big thank you to the parents and caregivers for coming to watch the race, We all disserved a sausage and an ice block!!!

By Riley Wyber, William McNeil,  Willem Grond - Holmes.

Here are some photos about Cross country.

The winner is Jack Bull!!!

All the way to the end!!!

Sprint Chris sprint!!!!!!

Lorien wins the race the crowd goes crazy !!!!!

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.