Tallest Structure Challenge

On Friday room O and room L were put into teams to make the tallest structure. In just 20 nerve breaking minutes we had to make the tallest structure using only a limited amount of materials like: 20 pieces of news paper, one roll of tape and one pair scissors. In each team they sorted out jobs for each other like a person to cut the sellotape, one person rolling up news paper and the others would be planning and putting it together. If a team was having trouble the teacher was there to help you. If your group wasn’t working as a team it wasn’t a really good one. Some teams didn’t work so their structure didn’t really work. But at the end of the day it was really fun.

 

                       

                 

                            

By Bronwyn and Amanda

Liquefaction Experiment

This was a cool experiment we carried out at lunch time.  Interested in the liquefaction we had seen occurring after the Christchurch earthquake we tried to simulate it using a model. Some of us had some good explanations of how it worked – the soil compresses and compresses until it is completely saturated with water and as you can’t compress water the soil turns to mush.

It was quite exciting watching the solid soil (compacted sand) suddenly turn to mush and the buildings and vehicles start to sink. 

Rugby World Cup

Here we are visiting the Webb Ellis Cup right here in Feilding. Some weren’t that interested and others quietly stood back and admired it. Quite interesting.  

Self Portrait Drawings

Can you guess who is who? Some of them have a remarkable likeness…

Enviro Day

Here are a couple of pictures from Wednesday’s Enviro Day. One of the pics show us working busily in our Room O garden. The other picture is of our decorated pots in which we planted Kowhai seeds. We had to scrape the outer layer of the seed (scarification) to allow water to enter so the seed would germinate. This is to mimic nature as the outer layer would be eroded as the kowhai seeds pass through a bird or are washed down stream. 

Bike Out 2011

Here are some pictures of our bike trip to Timona Park, as part of our cycle safety unit. We rode to Timona park under police escort and once there we took part in a variety of cool activities such as being timed around a BMX track, riding through an obstacle course and taking part in a relay.

Dot plot graph of the times Rm O and their families opened the fridge

Room O collected data on when our households open the fridge. We found out that the fridge was most frequently opened at 7am and also at 5 pm; that it wasn't opened between 11pm and 4 am; and that someone has to get up at 4am (because they open the fridge then).

Sport/Exercise Investigations




We have been busy carrying out investigations around sports and exercise. We decided to investigate: ‘How far can Rm O kick a rugby ball’ ‘How many push ups can Rm O do in 1 minute’ ‘How many kart wheels can Rm O do in 1 minute’ ‘Skips in 1 minute’ and ‘Shooting hoops in 1 minute. We made posters to display our information. The poster had to include the aim of our investigation, suitable graphs to display the information and a summary of what we found out.

Here is Room O’s publishing wall. In our 1^st selection of published work are some exciting recounts about our holidays. Please come in and read and enjoy our published writing. As a class we developed our success criteria, which can be viewed in the above image.

Room O's Class rules

Here are Room O’s class rules. We developed them and then Hayley and Jayden typed them up.

Room O's Name Self Portraits

Here are some of Room O's Name Self Portraits. The objective with these was to display our name using a format that tells others about ourselves and our interests.
They speak for themselves...