SCIENCE OPT IN - WHAT PLANTS NEED

Ms Udy helped some of us set up a science experiment today. First, we watched a video of a bean plant growing from a seed. It grew really fast, and we learnt that in just 25 days, a seed can create a whole plant! Here is the video for you to see:

We started talking about what a seed needs to make it grow. We decided to test what would happen if we gave our plant no water, no heat, or no light. We worked in pairs and prepared some seeds, then put them around our classroom - on sunny windowsills, in a cupboard, and even in the fridge!

 
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We will water them every couple of days (except the one that gets no water!),  check on them and write down how they have grown. Here are our predictions of how each will grow.

Name	No Water	No Heat	No Sunlight	Everything
Ava	Not grow at all	Freeze and not grow at all	It will die	It will cover the clouds
Maelee	Only grow a little	Grow a bit then die	It will grow a lot then die	Grow big, strong and healthy
Brooke	Only grow to the top of the jar	Grow a little bit	Grow as long as my hand	Grow a medium amount - half a hand
Neva	Not grow at all	Grow a little bit	It will die	It will grow big and strong
Indi	Not grow at all	Grow fast	It will grow a little bit then die	It will grow up past the clouds
Kaiden	Grow up to the roof	Grow slowly	Grow up to the sky
Ella	Grow a lot	Grow big	Grow really big	It will grow really big
Layla	Grow really big	Grow up to the chair	Grow as long as my hand	Grow really high
ACTUAL GROWTH

FRIDAY'S COOKING OPT-IN - SMOOTHIES

Friday rolls around pretty fast in Piako Rua.  

We don't mind though because Friday means COOKING!!!

Mrs Lunn helped us to make smoothies.  We each brought along some fruit to share and Mrs Lunn cut it up for us.  Then we got to choose what fruit we wanted in our smoothie.  There was so much to choose from!

Then we made our own smoothie and you can probably tell from our smoothie moustaches - they tasted delicious!

FRIDAY'S ART OPT-IN

We love the different opt ins on offer on Fridays.  This week Mrs Lunn took the kids who wanted to learn how to use vivid and dye to draw a pirate ship.  The kids listened carefully to the instructions and each created nothing short of a masterpiece!




 

SCIENCE OPT-IN: BALLOON ROCKETS

Some of the children opted in to a workshop to make balloon rockets.  The kids were presented with the materials needed and they had to try and figure out how to make the rocket.  The first challenged they faced was which way to have the opening of the balloon, as you can see here... 😂

We eventually got the balloon working!

Then we worked in small teams to make our own balloon rockets.  It took a lot of concentration and teamwork.

 

Once we were all organised we tested our rockets!

 We had a few races too...

Sophia explains what we got up to today...

And if you are wondering about the science behind Balloon Rockets, this video explains it really well.