Welcome Cameron

This week we welcomed a super new classmate to the Room 8 whanau, his name is Cameron Wirihana. He has made a super start to working in Room 8 and we are so very pleased to welcome him to our school.

Hokey Pokey

Room 8 have been learning about how things change in science.  Today we experimented with making hokey pokey.  We mixed sugar (solid) and golden syrup (liquid) in a pan and heated it to dissolve the sugar and make the liquid mixture more viscous.  We added baking soda (solid) and watched it change colour and puff up.  We learnt that the baking soda mixed with the hot sugary mixture makes a gas which is why hokey pokey  has holes in it.  We ate the hokey pokey and it was delicious!
 

Otago Museum Butterfly House

Today we were so lucky to visit the amazing Butterfly house at the Otago Museum. We watched Meila turn from an egg to a caterpillar, to a chrysalis to a beautiful butterfly.

Agate

In the weekend Tom went with his family on a Rock and Mineral Club outing hunting for Agate at Nimmo Swamp. Tom brought some of the beautiful pieces of Agate they found too school to share with the children. We looked at the Agate, we touched it and we talked about what it reminded us of. We collected up all our descriptive language and used it to write a poem about our favourite piece of Agate.

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Here is our poem.

Agate
Coloured like coca-cola.
Shiny and sparkly.
Curved like a skateboard ramp.
Pointy like a mountain.
Sprinkled with flour.

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The children have written their own poems about their favourite piece of Agate, come in and check them out.

Welcome!

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