Exploding Volcanoes

What an awesome day we had making exploding vocanoes!

Earth digital inquiry

Digi Award Entries

By Lourdes

By Justin

By Jackie

By Dyvontei

By Anaru

By Wiremu and Anaru

Earth

Earth looks like a big bouncy ball. Earth sounds like people chatting away and birds singing in the air. Earth smells like the beautiful flowers. Earth feels sometimes hot and even cold. Earth moves very very fast like a speeding motor bike aroun the racing track. By Kitana

Earth

Earth looks like a bouncy ball. Earth sounds like millions of gods whispering. Earth sometimes feels cold when it's sad, warm when it's happy and hot when it's mad. Earth moves like a ghost around a fire place. Earth smells like fresh air when it's sunny and it smells dirty when it rains. By Newdili:)

Earth

Earth looks like a smudged painting when I'm looking from space. Earth sounds like the volcano ready to melt everything. Earth feels like the skin of a bouncy ball. Earth moves like a slow ladybug around a fire ball. Earth smells like a sun flower. By Te Amo

Earth

Earth Earth looks like a ball of bubblegum. Earth sounds like a volcano burping. Earth feels like hard rock. Earth seems like a sloth moving slowly around the sun. Earth smells like a pair of new shoes. By Anaru

Earth

Earth movies slowly like a fat hippo. Earth smells like flowers when i'm happy. I like earth because it's got land to play on. Earth is nice. Earth feels hard like my Dad's head. Earth is the third biggest planet in the solar system. Earth is green and blue. earth feels good when its sunny. The earth makes me feel happy. Earth is the coolest planet in the solar system. By Wiremu

Wonderful ones chose Earth as it's inquiry topic this term and we have found some interesting facts and a cool web site about Earth. On friday we will be learning have a science experiment called Vinegar Volcano. Have a go! Baking Soda & Vinegar Volcano Use baking soda and vinegar to create an awesome chemical reaction! Watch as it rapidly fizzes over the container and make sure you've got some towels ready to clean up. What you'll need: •Baking Soda (make sure it's not baking powder) •Vinegar •A container to hold everything and avoid a big mess! •Paper towels or a cloth (just in case) Instructions: 1.Place some of the baking soda into your container. 2.Pour in some of the vinegar 3.Watch as the reaction takes place! What's happening? The baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is a base while the vinegar (acetic acid) is an acid. When they react together they form carbonic acid which is very unstable, it instantly breaks apart into water and carbon dioxide, which creates all the fizzing as it escapes the solution. For extra effect you can make a realistic looking volcano. It takes some craft skills but it will make your vinegar and baking soda eruptions will look even more impressive!

 Cross  country day!


was a great day for  RUNNING! 

My winning runners were Nikau 1st,  in the year 3's Thomas came 2nd in the year 3's and Manu came 3rd as a year 4.

It was a very exciting time for Ruma Tahi.

Ata Marie koutou

Cross-country day today and what a fine day for this event.   I am looking forward in seeing all the children having fun and running their hearts content.

I will take lots of photos and post them up for all to see.

GO RUMA TAHI! 

Marae Trip

What an excellent day at the Marae on Thursday 17.05.12. 

We learnt about the meaning of the Marae and the kawa o te Marae(protocols of the Marae)  Kara helped Whaea Darnielle   say the karanga which is being called onto the Marae.  

We had heaps of fun activities related to the culture of the Marae on a sunny day.  

Tama-nui-te-ra was shinning bright!

First post ever!

Today i have set up our awesome new blog! we will try and use this regulary to share our learning with the rest of the world.