Kiwi's Adventure

Kiwi went on a trip. He is one of the Learnz ambassadors. There are lots of other ambassadors there too, all from different schools around the world. Kupe the Kea is the leader and one of the others names is Seven. First Kiwi went to Christchurch and then he went to Kaikoura. He had lunch on the rocky beach and saw some some seals. He saw the hills of salt. At Lake Rotoiti they found a great spotted Kiwi, it was huge. We can look on the computer to see him. Mike is the scientist that travels around all the places that we have been talking about.
by Kate

Dehydrated feijoas

In Room 15 we dehydrated feijoas. We got to chop up the feijoas and put them in some trays with tiny holes in them. There was one big hole in the middle. You had to build up the trays on top of each other then the top went on. It took 12 hours to dehydrate them properly. Afterwards we got to try them if we wanted to. Not everybody wanted to try them! I loved them. I took some home and Dad also liked them.
By Holly

The Egg Bounces!!

We had fun bouncing the egg. Why did this happen? The acid in the vinegar dissolved the shell, leaving behind just the inner membrane which is like the skin of the egg. It made it feel very rubbery.

The Incredible Bouncing Egg

How do you remove the shell from a hard boiled egg without peeling it off?

On week three Ms Cooke came to school with a hard boiled egg. Then Kirsty came up in front of the class and poured vinegar into a jar. Ms Cooke carefully put the egg into the jar with the vinegar. All day everyone wondered what it would look like. We watched for a few days and some brown slime appeared on the egg. John and Jake tipped the vinegar out into the sink. Everyone got to hold and feel the egg.
By Callum

Making Lemonade

Room 15 has been studying kitchen science. We have been learning what dissolving means.

On Thursday Cian, John and me made lemonade. While we made lemonade we talked about how the sugar dissolved. We squeezed the lemon out in a bowl and then we poured it in a pan. I stirred it round and round and took it off the stove and we got a little spoon and we drank it. It was yummy and then the bell rang and we were still drinking it.
By Jake

We found all of the lemons up the hill. It took us three days to find them. We made the lemonade with Callum's Mum. We learnt about the heat dissolving the sugar and I said the opposite of dissolving was what happens to lava rock. When we tasted the lemonade it was sweet and yummy.
By Cian