fives senses

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we have been learning use our five senses in our writing. the five senses are feel, smeel ,taste, sight,hear

cross country

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This week it was Cross Country. Lots of schools and lots of people came to our school.The races were great. There were some yummy cakes and drinks and sausage sizzles for sale. People ran really fast and did really well and I know I definitely did. Cross country was awesome and really, really fun. There was lots of cheering and clapping for everyone. I wonder what it'ill be like next year? Check out these awsome photos.

scince fair

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On Wednesday it was the science fair .My experiment was parachuting eggs and failed the first few times. I should tell you that five hard-boiled eggs gave up their lives during our parachute trials. After they were shattered and beyond help, I ate most of them. But  in the end everything turned out fine and we could safely parachute raw eggs to the ground instead. Read my science report and find out how we made it work.

B E G I N N I N G	TITLE	Parachuting Eggs
	QUESTION.	Will a parachute made out of cardboard and plastic allow a hard-boiled egg to land without cracking when we drop it from the highest level of the junior playground ?
	THESIS.	An egg is a kind of life capsule for a baby animal. Some animals like chickens lay eggs which have the baby inside a hard shell. Humans like to eat  chicken eggs and one way they cook them is to boil the egg whole for about 5 minutes. Then, when the egg cools down, you peel off the shell and eat the egg which will be a bit rubbery but tasty.  If a hard-boiled egg was dropped from the height of the top level of the junior playground, the shell would crack when it landed. Parachutes are devices made out of rope and fabric which people attach to themselves as a safety device in case they need to jump out of an aeroplane. As the person falls, the fabric fills with air and slows the speed of the person so that they can land without being hurt.
	HYPOTHESIS.	If you can make a parachute which lets a person fall slowly to the ground without being hurt, then you should be able to make a parachute do the same thing for a hard-boiled egg. We predict that we will be able to design a good parachute for an egg.

M I D D L E	EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS:	Hardboiled eggs Plastic bag String Scissors Plastic netting
	PROCEDURE	Do a test by dropping a hard-boiled egg from the top of the playground and observe what happens. Create a parachute using plastic, netting and string. Put the hard-boiled egg into the plastic net beneath the parachute and drop it from the playground. Observe what happens.
	OBSERVATIONS:	When we dropped the hard boiled egg by itself it’s shell cracked and shattered, but it  didn’t crack completely. When we dropped the egg with cardboard around it, it looked the same as the one without cardboard but slightly better. Next we tried the egg with a bigger plastic bag and it had less damage. So, we decided we should enlarge the canopy of the parachute by about three times. When we dropped the egg using the enlarged parachute canopy, the egg landed safely with no cracks at all.

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ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION

The goal of this experiment was to see if a parachute made out of cardboard and plastic would allow a hard-boiled egg to land without cracking when we dropped it from the highest level of the junior playground. The result of our experiment proves that our hypothesis was correct, we were able to design a good parachute for an egg. Our new knowledge gained was that the most important design factor for a parachute is to have a big enough canopy.

Learning how to read scientific reports

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We are learning how to read and write scientific reports. We have been doing experiments and writing about them. This is a reading activity we did. We had to be able to match a thesis with its hypothesis.

We are learning how to understand the structure and language of a report about a scientific experiment #3 Understanding that a hypothesis is a brainy prediction based on what you already know.

In this exercise you need to match a thesis with its hypothesis.  Use the ‘Fill tool’ to colour code the matching ideas.

                               Thesis                                                                      Hypothesis

I know this……                                                                         So therefore if I do this I think this will happen…

I know that a puddle of water is a small amount of water lying (usually) on the ground. I know that water is a substance which is found on our planet and that it can exist as a solid (ice), liquid or a gas (water vapour). I know that the main reason water changes from one state to another on Earth is because of  temperature -heat or cold. On Earth a sunny day is when there are no clouds, the sky is blue and the temperature is usually warm or hot.	I predict that when I mix vinegar and baking soda together that a chemical reaction will occur and that I will be able to notice this. I might feel hotness or coldness, notice smoke or bubbles, smell something, hear some kind of noise or  find that the taste or texture of the foods has changed.
I know that heavy things usually sink and light things float. However, container ships are heavy but they still float so there must be more things that have an effect on floating than just weight. Blutack is a squishy material that is quite light. It usually comes as a wide, flat strip but you can shape it into a round ball, a sausage shape, an O shape etc or you could flatten it out into a thin, wide shape like a leaf or saucer. Leaves usually float and ships look a little like a leaf shape.	I predict that when I take an ice cube out of a freezer it will begin to change back into liquid water (this is called melting) because it will no longer be colder than 0 degrees centigrade.
I know that an ice cube is water which is frozen. I know that that liquid water freezes into ice when the temperature reaches 0 degrees centigrade. An ice cube will stay an ice cube as long as it stays in a freezer.	I predict that if I make a puddle of water somewhere on the playground on a hot, dry day that the puddle will dry up and disappear quite quickly.
I know that everything we eat is made up of different kinds of chemicals.Sometimes when you mix different chemicals together they react with each other in different ways and the substances will do things that they didn’t do before (chemical reaction) and become different to what they were like before (chemical change). You will be able to notice things happening by using your 5 senses to  listen, smell, feel, look at and sometimes taste what is going on. I know that vinegar and baking soda are both food substances and I learned that they are chemically different	I predict that if I take some ice cubes out of a freezer and wrap them in different materials, I will find that one material will keep the ice cube frozen for longer than the others. This material would then have proven itself to be the best insulator.
I know that liquid water changes into a solid (ice) when the temperature reaches 0 degrees centigrade. I know that a freezer will keep water solid because a freezer’s job is to keep food at a temperature just below 0 degrees centigrade.	We are going to use Bluetack as our material. We will use the same amount of Blutack to make three different shapes. One will be a straight, rectangular strip of Blutack, one will be a compact, round ball and the third will be a rounded  saucer shape like a boat. We predict that at least one of these will float.
I know that insulators are materials that can be used to protect yourself from too much heat or cold. When we put clothes on because we are cold, the clothes are insulators which help our bodies stay warm. If you put insulating material like Pink Batts in the ceiling of your house, in the winter the Batts help keep warm air inside the house. In the summer, The Pink Batts help stop hot air coming into the house so they help to keep us cool. Many  food containers like Thermos flasks and Chilly Bins are made out of insulating materials to keep food hot or cold.	I predict that when I put some liquid water into a freezer it will change from a liquid state into a solid state (ice) because the temperature in the freezer will be below 0 degrees centigrade.