Today we carried out a science investigation with Skittles lollies in the S.T.E.M. room.
S.T.E.M. stands for Science,Technology, Engineering and Maths.
We filled a petri dish with water and put 4 skittles lollies spaced apart in the dish.
We made some predictions about what we thought would happen and then watched carefully to see what DID happen.
We were amazed to see that the lollies started to dissolve but the colours did not mix together by themselves and stayed in each corner.
Scientists are still not sure why this happens and are experimenting to find the answer.
When we tried hot water the same thing happened but more quickly!
This week is Seaweek and Room1 have been learning about caring for plants and animals that live in the ocean environment.
Today we walked down to the beach with PE hoops and magnifying glasses. We put the hoops down on the sand at the high tide line and then the low tide line and looked carefully at what we could see inside the circle. We found lots of different kids of plastic, as well as the stones, shells, driftwood and seaweed. We will all make sure we don't drop plastic at the beach as birds and fish may think that it is food and try to eat it!
Congratulations to Yellow Table this week!
You were wonderful at listening and following instructions!
Marshall shared plums with us today at 2pm!
Thank you Marshall.
You handed them out so nicely!
On the past 3 swimming days Room1 have had hungry tummies with all the exercise and learning they have been doing! We have been having Fruit Break at 2pm and it has made a big difference to our concentration! We have had plum day, blueberry day and today we had chilled watermelon day!
Thank you to Isabella's mum Elizna for bringing us yummy chilled watermelon and to Isabella for handing it around so carefully! YUM YUM YUM!
Room1 drew themselves with vivid pens and then coloured with pastel and added a dye wash to create these wonderful self portraits!
Thank you to our KiwiSwim instructors who have helped us improve our swimming skills!
We have now completed our 2 weeks of lessons and everyone in Room1 has made positive progress!
