Dunking Biscuits

In Room 6 we have been learning about fair testing. We learnt new phrases such as; Hypothesis,  Variables etc. A hypothesis is a prediction for your experiment and a variable is something you could change in your experiment. We had to come up with our own experiment with groups of two or three. My buddy was Lachlan and we chose to do "Dunking Biscuits" We had to plan our experiment in a doc where we included what we would change, what we would keep the same so our experiment would be 'fair' and what we would measure.

For this experiment, we had to dunk different types of biscuits in coffee and see which biscuit is the strongest. The different types of biscuits we had were; Arrowroots, Sugar Biscuits, Choc-chip cookies, Scotch fingers, Anzac biscuits and Raisin Biscuits. Our time set was 1 minute and 30 seconds and if it goes over that, we have to stop it. For the results, we had Arrowroots, Scotch Fingers, Sugar Biscuits and Raisin Biscuits as our best.

Our next step was to make our science boards showing our results, measurements, pictures, graphs, etc. We were free to do what type of lettering we wanted and to be creative with our boards.

What I enjoyed: Doing the lettering for our boards as well as deciding what the layout would look like.
What I found frustrating: How I can't change what I put up if I don't like where its placed because we used a glue stick to put it up.
What I can work on: Going in depth with the writing in our boards.

Save South Sudan

WALT: Recognise the impact of a drought and a famine on families and communities and describe what happened in South Sudan during Famine 2017.

In Room 6 we have been learning about South Sudan and how they are suffering through Drought and Famine. For us to be able to show our learning, we had to make a Newspaper report about the conflicts in South Sudan.

Something I found hard: was merging the cells together and trying not to delete any work.
Something I found easy: Was finding the pictures for our newspaper report.
Next Time: I would be more focused on my work to get it done on time.

South Sudan

In Room 6 we have been learning about South Sudan and the conflicts they have in their country. We have also been learning about Caritas and how they help the people in South Sudan. In order for us to show we understand the Impact of the Conflicts we had to make a D.L.O

The Treaty Of Waitangi

In Room 6, we were learning about The Treaty Of Waitangi. To show what we learned, we made a D.L.O about the Treaty Of Waitangi.



 

Matariki Starry Night

WALT: Recreate a famous artist's painting, while incorporating New Zealand themes and celebrations.

 In Room 8 we have been learning about Vincent Van Gogh and the Matariki constellation. We had to learn about the Matariki constellation and some koru patterns. After we learnt about Matariki and some Koru patterns, we had to sketch our own Matariki Starry night. After we sketched our Matariki Starry Night we had to create a poem about our art work. We also needed to use descriptive words in our poem.

Jerminu's Day

WALT: See some differences of how we live in our country and how people live in Timor Leste.