In the holidays, Mrs Narbey managed to find the Kakano Team some tadpoles. They are all at different stages from eggs to medium sized tadpoles. Each class has some tadpoles to learn about. They have some growing to do!
Our frogs are Brown Tree Frogs which often also called Whistling Tree Frogs. Here is some information about them and how to care for them.
Today we learnt about volcanoes. It was a chance to learn some new words and talk about what volcanoes do. Miss Collins made us a salt dough volcano so that we could recreate a volcano through a science experiment.
Miss Collins put baking soda, yellow and red food colouring and malt vinegar in the chimney of our volcano to create magma and lava erupting. We loved watching the volcano erupt and thought that we might like to try this experiment at home.
Here are the videos we watched at Writing and Language Experience time.
On the second to last day of Term Two we raced our cars that each class had made. Room One had intended on making balloon cars but it turns out the milk cartons were too heavy and wouldn't move. We used push and gravity as our forces instead. We got into our groups and pushed the cars down the PMP ramp.
Today we launched our Inquiry "I Like To Move It!"
Room One and Two got together with their teachers and we talked about what Science experiment that we were going to do. The teachers showed us the equipment that we needed. Lots of us didn't realise that there was different kinds of Coca Cola and that Mentos were lollies.
First we formed a question, which was "What will happen if we put a packet of Mentos into a bottle of Coke or Diet Coke?" Then we made our hypothesis which is when we predict what we thought would happen.
This is what we thought...
- The Mentos might sink to the bottom.
- The Coca Cola might explode out of the bottle.
- There might be fizzing.
- There maybe foaming and it could turn white.
- There might be Cocal Cola everywhere
We went outside and sat in a semi circle.
Miss Philp put the Mentos lollies in the full Coca Cola first.
Here is video of what happened with the Coca Cola...
Then Miss Collins put the Mentos in the Diet Coca Cola.
Here is video of what happened with the Diet Coca Cola...
After the experiment we came and did some wondering and thinking. We practised asking questions. Miss Collins wrote them on the window in the Learning Centre so we could see our thinking and come back to it later. Check out our wonderings...
On Tuesday we did our first Science experiment with Room Two. First Miss Collins told us that we were going to move paint on a page but we weren't sure how. We thought we could move it around using a our fingers or a spoon. Then Miss Collins told us we were going to be given a straw. Next we formed a question, which was "How can we use a straw to move paint around a piece of paper?"
After that we formed a hypothesis which is when you predict what you think will happen.
We thought...
- The paint might go all over us.
- The paint might splash off the page
- Paint could end up in our mouth.
After that Miss Collins and Miss Philp explained what we were going to do and recorded it on our experiment chart. We wrote it down because that is what 'real' scientists do.
We carried out the experiment and we found out that we could move the paint around the page by blowing down the straw. The paint was quite thick and hard to move around. Room One then tried the experiment again with dye which was thinner and it moved around the page more easily. The dye spread like fireworks.
The air forced the paint and dye to move around the page.
In the holidays Miss Collins bought Room One a swan plant. A swan plant is the special kind of plant that the Monarch Butterfly lays hers eggs on. A Monarch Butterfly laid eggs on our plant and they hatched into caterpillars. The catterpillars ate ALL of our swan plant and got really fat. Then they hung upside down like the letter J. After a wee while they went into a chrysalis. We have been waiting a long time for our butterflies to hatch and today the did! It was very exciting!
Here is a link if you want to more learning at home:
Miss Collins made use some salt dough at home foe us to make bones and fossils out of. First we had a play with the dough and some of us found that it hurt the little cuts we had in our hands. Then Miss Collins handed out the dinosaurs and we pushed them into the salt dough to make a fossil. We had to be careful not push a hole in the salt dough. After that we pinched and rolled dough to make a bone shape. We looked at dinosaur skeletons to get ideas. After school Miss Collins cooked them for us and made them go hard. Next we will tag them like real scientists.
