Yellow Heroes

Daffodil day dress up winners.


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Community Time

Ben reading a Maori legend to the younger kids.



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The Plant Field Trip (Jeremy and Bryn)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to the plant food and we learnt about potatoes. We made crisps and French fries and we learnt about different types of potatoes and their colours. There are some that are purple and some that are red on the outside. Overall there are tons of different potatoes which have many uses. Such as for spuds, alcohol, and chips.

Netball Canterburys (Brodie and Libby)

Yesterday our whole netball team went to the Canterbury tournament. We went to Hagley park and we played five netball games but one was a bye. On the first game we played St. Albans and we won 4-0. In our next game we played Waimairi and lost our game and the next and the next we were so disappointed but the good thing is that we had a lot of fun. So thank you to our coaches that helped as to get to the Canterburys and all of the supporters that cheered us on.

Field Trip (Nathan & Caelan)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to Lincoln Uni and Plant & Food Research.

We went to see a man who talked about potatoes. He showed us different potatoes e.g purple and yellow ones. He also made some crisps and turned on a potato peeler/cleaner. Did you know that McDonald's makes long chips that makes it look like your buying lots of chips?

And that lots of little chips is a rip off when you can buy big chunky chips. 

You might think that thin chips are better and less fat but no. The fat chips are better because the thin chips soak up the oil. After that we packed up and left to have lunch at a park that a High school made called Mahoe Reserve. We really enjoyed the morning.

Plant Field Trip (Fran and Georgia)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to Lincoln university and the people in our group were Henry, Elan, Regan, and William. Our group went to Plant And Food where  we met Neil, Charlotte, John and a French scientist. We learnt what a nanometer was and we saw some melted plastic get spun into nanometre widths.

After that we went for morning tea across the road from Lincoln high school and after we finished our morning tea we did a challenge where we had to fill out  a sheet with questions like (find the Maori names for three plants and find three plants that feed birds.) 

Next we went to see Trish at a field site. Trish showed us what good soil looks like and what disturbs the soil the most. When Trish had finished speaking about soil we got back on the bus and headed back to school. It was a great day for us.

Netball Canterburys (Sophie W and Ellie)

Yesterday our netball team went to Hagley park to play in Canterburys. We played four games and we only won one of them. We were very supportive when we were off because we had green and black pom poms!  Also there was a Westpac helicopter that landed right beside our court and it was vey loud but cool. We played against St Albans, St Joseph Ash, Waimari, and Bishipdale. It was an exhausting day!

Insects Trip (Sevao and Ethan)

Yesterday some of us from the middle school went on a field trip to the Lincoln bug lab. We arrived and the bug man showed us wasps smaller then a bed bug! He also showed us wetas as big as our hand and a huge Fijian stick insect. We found out that there are just over 10,000 named bugs in NZ and scientists reckon there’s another 10,000 that are yet to be named. He even showed us a bug that he discovered and believe it or not it was his favorite kind- a beetle! All in all me and Sevao had a great time meeting the bug man.

Plants Filed Trip (Sophie R and Zarah)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to Plant and Food Research. We got slit into two groups one was with Mrs Taylor and the other group was with Mr T and Rachel. First off we had a walk around the Mahoe research to find out about plants. Next we droped off the insect people and then we went to the farm to learn about special kinds of potatoes. We also learnt how to make crispy chips and french fries. The highlights for us was learning about plants. It was a very interesting trip.

Science Trip (Zayden & James)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to Lincoln university where John showed our group a bug collection. We both thought it was really interesting. I liked looking at the stick bug at the end that was bigger than my hand! I Now have learnt a lot about bugs e.g. there are 10,000 different named insects in New Zealand, but john reckons there's another 10,000 undiscovered ones out there still. we also went to Mahoe reserve and did a scavenger hunt for the signs of the maori names of native plants. My group found all of them including the 100 year old fire box in the bush. It was a cool field trip.

Plant field trip (Max & John)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to an insect lab. We looked at the wasps and they were very small. We also learnt a fact about one of the biggest insects. Its leg to its body is 1/2 a meter long and its about 3 meters long. Then we went to the Field Trial and looked at how they are studying the soil. They use this thing where it see’s how much water there is in the soil and how much carbon comes from the ground. It was an exciting day.

Plant field trip (Zeke & Elijah)

Yesterday the middle school went on a field trip to Lincoln. We got split up in two groups, one group on one bus and the other group on the other bus. Our group went to a farm. We went to study seeds and saw different machines that divide up and clean the seeds. The other group went to potatoes and saw different things about cooking up potatoes.

After that all of the groups went to a plant and food facility. We all had to wait for bus 1 to turn up. Once they turned up we learnt about what different gadgets do on a big field trial. After about ten minutes of learning we headed back to school. It was a great day because it turned out to be such a sunny day!

we got extra break time cause we arrive at school late.

Middle School Plant Biology Field Trip

Plant Biology Field Trip on PhotoPeach

Big Questions for Science

We are getting ready for our group plant investigations.


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Inquiry into Plant Growth

It is now time to split off into pairs or threes and research something to do with growing plants. Follow these steps:
1. Decide upon a question - something you want to find out (e.g. Will plants grow in the dark?) A good place to start is on this website. The class books also have a lot of information for possible questions.

2. Make a prediction, or hypothesis as scientists say, about what you think will happen in an experiment (e.g. We think that plants will grow in the dark but not as fast as in the light). Record this on your experiment planning sheet.

3. Record your results as you do the experiment using sketches / photos / or graphs.

4. Present results at the science fair in some way (e.g. as a poster, movie, or slideshow etc).

5. Be sure to include all the information about what you did and what you found out (a conclusion). For example, did your hypothesis turn out to be proven correct or incorrect?

Kia kaha

Book Review (Lucy)

Dress up day

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Book Review (Ellie)

Book Review (Sophie W)

Book Review (James and John)

Which book character? (Sophie W & Ineka & Ellie)

What book character? (Zarah & Brodie)

Book Week Quiz (James)

Can you guess who I am?

Book Week Quiz (Zeke)

Can you guess who I am?

Book character quiz

Today we worked in pairs to create a book character quiz. We then presented them using the iPad app Explain Everything.






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What a plant needs to grow (Learning Link)

Click here for the knowledge quest about plants.
1. Click on the "Plants" icon
2. Read through the information about what plants need to grow
3. With your buddy- fill in the quiz sheet
4. Play the game
5. Report your answers back to the class

Germinator Experiment Results

We found that the beans which were put in bags with water sprouted in both light and dark conditions.







On the other hand, beans in the dry bags did not sprout at all.







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Our new personal blogs

 

Click Here to take you to the new site (or the Kids' Blogs button above). 

Next, set up your avatar and then start blogging!

Book review using iMovie (Mr T)

Making Ginger Ale

Experimenting with yeast to make a fizzy drink.


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The Germinator Experiment

Volunteers setting up our bean experiment.


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Fruit vs Veges

Today we learnt how to tell a fruit from a veggie. Even tricky ones like tomatoes, pumpkins, and avocados!



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The Germinator Experiment

Today we created our Germinator bag to see how long it takes broad beans to germinate.



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A Gruesome Recipe (Fran)

Ratty soup

Ingredients: 500g of spider guts,a handful of rats brains,a kilo gram of cow dung,one teaspoon of toad sweet,3 kilo of mashed crocodile eyes and 12ml of long tailed bat blood          

1. First clean out the cow dung making sure you leave no fly’s in it.

2. Remove the spider guts using a knife to cut hem open.
3. Next tire out your pet toad so you can get one teaspoon of sweat. 
4. Mash up 3kg of crocodile eyes until it turns into 3 litres of liquid.

5. Skin the rats until you have a handful of brains.

6. Get a needle and poke a hole in your Long Tailed Bat and get 12ml of blood.

7. Put all the ingredients into a cauldron.

8. Boil for 15 minutes.

9. Make sure you serve hot so its not raw!

Goblin Cake (Zeke)

Ingredients:
60g of dog tears
A handful of dinosaur flesh
1 teaspoon of gunpowder
1 teaspoon of pig blood
3 human hearts
9ml of duck brain juice

Method

1.First, pour the dog tears into a bowl.

2.Next, chop up the dinosaur flesh into 6 even pieces.

3.then mix the dog tears with the dinosaur flesh until it starts to look like cow poo.

4.carefully add the gunpowder to the bowl.

5.After that, pour the pig blood with it.

6.Wrap up with glad wrap and set on the bench to settle.

7.Get your 3 human hearts and chop up to little pieces, squish them to a meat ball then roll it to a pancake with a rolling pin.

8.Once done, get the brain juice and pour into a cake tray then ad all the ingredients together and put in the oven for 20min.

9.Finally take out and we hope you enjoy

Goes well with strawberry ice-cream!

Urine mix Luxer (Libby)

Ingredients:

10 KG’s of horse dung

1 cup of porcupines’ urine

A handful of salted dodos’ beaks

1 tablespoon of melted moldy cheese

3 snail shells

1. Mix the moldy cheese and horse dung together.
2. Chop the dodos’ beaks until they are cut into sixths.
3. Pour the urine into the dung and cheese.
4. Pack the dodos’ beaks in the snail shells tightly.
5. Pour the urine mix into a pot and simmer until 69.5 degrees.
6. Pour in the snail shells. Once cooked pour in a bowl. ENJOY!

Ghastly Recipe (Sophie W.)

Revolting Cake Recipe (Zarah)

Ingredients: 500g of sheep wool, A handful of zebra manure, 1 cup kangaroo liver, 1 teaspoon of goat saliva.

Steps:
First chop the kangaroo liver into 3cm long slices making sure you clean them so all of the blood is off.

Next clean the sheep wool until all the dirt is off the wool or it does not taste nice.

Put in a handful of zebra manure in the mixture and mix it all up until it gets into a green goo colour.

After that you add 1 teaspoon of goat saliva with the zebra manure.

Then put it in a round cake tin and cook in oven for half an hour for 180.

Enjoy!

Build an Avatar

Today I learnt how to make an avatar .  Click the link below to make your own  Mess Dude  avatar.

Jame's Avatar

                                             

         Today I learnt how to make an avatar in Room 6.  Click this link below to make your own. 

      Mess Dudes

Mess dude avatar

Today I learnt how to create a mess dude avatar with room 6.

Minecrafters

The giant kiwiana theme park!



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Springston Radio - Episode 3 - News and views from our students!

Is it a plant?

Today in science we studied plant classification.



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