Hi again.

Today at Enrich we did our environment projects. But we didn't  do the normal  environment projects  like murals.
But instead of that Darryn showed us a clip it was about 
plastic in the water polluting it killing all the animals because 

they were eating all the plastic. We also made a list of what it told us and what it made us wonder a lot of people asked "how long will it be 'til all of those animals just die out ?" If that does happen that will be the end of man kind. So we have to stop throwing plastic into water ways, because is said that now turtles/tortoises are the most  endangered species of animal in the world. What ever happened to clean green NZ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAoyTsyM7M

Hi again (sorry about not doing posts for the last 2 weeks)

Today I did maths we did it on a man called Fibonacci. He discovered that if you go like 0+1=1 1+1+2 1+2=3 it looks complicated right its not. All you have to do is add the 2 most recent numbers together like 2+3=5 5+3=8 etc. Now  cows have nothing to do with maths do they? Well it turns out that they do! Well in Fibonacci's way they do. You see a cow can have babies when they are 2 but are pregnant for 1 year! So we did it with dots. We did it in different colors. Our main cow was called Daisy. For the first 2 years it was one baby 3rd year 2, 4th year 3, and so on we did until Daisy was 8. See if you can do it when you
get the hang of it try predicting the amount of cows she will have. We also did spiral shells. It's the same thing really. You start off with a grid then you do 2 small 1 square boxes then you do a 2 by 2 box etc.
By Mia

Today at Enrich we did high interest stations,  I did science, we made elephant toothpaste. When it works  it looks really cool, it froths up and shoots up to the sky, it just goes on and on until it runs out of froth. We saw lots of videos of different people trying it. It looked so cool. We found that when we did it,  the bigger test tubes did bigger explosions. We put  food colouring in it to make it different colours. We had to choose partners, I chose Anna, we made a purple one.           

HOW TO MAKE ELEPHANT TOOTHPASTE

1. Put 3 tbs of yeast into a measuring cup.
2. Put about 3 dessert spoons of water in the measuring cup.
3. Stir until the yeast has dissolved. 
4.Get some of hydrogen peroxide and fill it up to half.
5. Put soap in any kind you like
6. Put in food colouring, any colouring you like. Only one drop.
7. Then put in the yeast mixture. 
Good luck!
By Mia
                                     WARNING
Do not let the mixture make contact with skin once the hydrogen peroxide is in the mixture

it bleaches on tables (any thing but skin) remember it is poison  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qtX6XgDeDY

Today at Enrich we were making murals we did them on a piece paper,  we drew and put photos on the paper. We did it to look like we wanted it to if we painted it on a wall. My group did it about all the kiwi icons and food. In the middle we had a pic of the water tower and around it we had Tim Shadbolt, tiki and koro, we also had lots of kiwi words like bro, Invercargill and Southland. I think the best bit was our slogan we did "we've got the paua" way better than our old one Invergiggles don't you  think.


By Mia

First day back for term 3. Wow 2 terms gone - 2 more to go. Today we did     

see he liked lizards 

a high interest station. I chose to do a tessellations. It all started off with a square grid and some squiggly lines. The pictures and the lines all have to be the same otherwise it won't turn out like it's suppose to. We looked at some photos of tessellations by M C Escher - they we really good. He also did optical illusions. It also appeared that he liked lizards. When I did mine, it looked like a rooster. Some of the rules of a tessellation is the same pattern over and no overlapping.


Here is a link to M C Escher's webpage:


http://www.mcescher.com/Shopmain/ShopEU/facsprints-uk/prints.html

By Mia.

Term 2 self assessment

Today is the last day of term. Today we did a self assessment for term 2. It had questions about this term. If you want to see it is right above. If you want to make it bigger/smaller click on it and select your size.

Bye Mia

p.s. Sorry if its hard to read 

Hi again.

Today we did passion time its when people choose something,

that they really like and we get some time to do it.

I choose clay and made a mask. This is how you do it

1 wet the board

2 slap the clay on the board until the air bubbles go away

3 knead the clay until it is about in between 5 and 2 cm thick 

4 put 1 to 2 pages of news paper under it 

5 cut off the extra bits
6 make your design with a blunt blade (do not go right through the clay

7 to join on bits put light crosses on the surface of the clay and the back of the piece of clay
Bye, from Mia.