Hola hoop Amoeba

Hi

Today at Enrich we did a Wilson game. Called hula hoop amoeba 


                           HOW TO PLAY

you will need

hula hoops (2 per group)
and 10 or more people


                          HOW TO PLAY                             

decide who is going to be the clapper
the rest of the people get into groups of 3
hold hands in the groups 
and try to hop into the hoops

                             RULES

You've all got to jump at the same time,
You can only jump when the clapper claps and says jump at 
the same time,
It only counts as in the hoop when all of your body is in the hoop and nothing is touching the hoop,
You can only win when you get into the second hoop,
and once you get into the first hoop and out cleanly the hoop is a check point.

By Mia

Wilson Game

Hi

Today at Enrich we played a Wilson game like Piccadilly Circus 

                              How to play:

what you will need

2  orange bean bags 1 plain 1 animal

2 green bean bags 1 plain 1 animal

1 ball

10  or up people

 5 people with ball/beanbags 

a time limit 

how to play

5 people go out and give the objects to the people who haven't had it, but you have to receive the object in a colour sequence: green orange or orange green. You can only get each 1 once. 

You can get the ball at any time.

You can't talk, if you do it starts again!

Hi everyone

Today at Enrich we went to Waihopai River to plant some trees such as flax and toi toi. After we got off the bus we went through a kind of maze. Once we got out we went over to a lady named Anastazia and she taught us how to plant a tree and within 5 mins 20 trees were planted! We did this because if the river ever floods then all the mud will be held  in the roots so it doesn't   go back in the river, making the water cleaner. Over the entire time we planted 250 trees!

Hi 

Today at Enrich we had passion time and I decided to do science, with my friends Anna and Kate. We made Oobleck (corn flour slime). It's lots of fun (but very messy so be careful), its hard when you punch it and soft when you dig your fingers in it.
Question: Do you know why?

                   HOW TO MAKE OOBLECK

Hope it turns out like this

Ingredients:
Water
Food colouring
Corn flour
A bowl
A spoon

1. Add the food colouring to the water and stir.
2. Put 4-5 dessert spoons of corn flour in the bowl (add more if needed)
3. Add 1 quarter of the cup of water/food colouring into the bowl
4. Stir until gooey 
6 Pour into a plastic bag - Make sure lid it is sealed tight.
7. Enjoy 
                                      Helpful tips
If it turns solid, add a small drop of water. 
To get it into the plastic bag, use a funnel.

Answer: When you punch it all the particles jam together making it solid but if you squeeze it lightly all the particles can move past your fingers.

 Hi 

Today is last day of term... sad. But we still have today so...

Today at enrich we did P4C it was about "Is it OK to pollute?

lots of people said no I don't  think its OK to pollute, but you can't help it some times. Like you can't help it if work/school is an hours walk away from your house so you've got to take the car. Here are some things you can do: having quick showers to save water, not turning the lights on if its sunlight.  Then we had a talk about a story that we just read about the green thing, if you want to read it, its right down there:

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment. 

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have

this green thing back in my earlier days." 

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations." 

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.
Back then grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. 

But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then. 

Bye "sniff sniff"

Bye I'll be back next term 

Hi.

Today at Enrich we had a look at the most polluted cities in the world. You would think it was LA wouldn't you, no it seems clean
next to these ones. LA's only got 25 micrograms (particles) per cubic meter of air.  Here are the top 10 air polluted cities in the world:
10 Lahore, Pakistan - 200 micrograms per cubic meter.
9 Kanpur, India - 209 micrograms per cubic meter.
8 Yasouj, Iran - 215 micrograms per cubic meter.
7 Gaborone, Botswana - 216 micrograms per cubic meter.
6 Peshawar, Pakistan - 219 micrograms per cubic meter.
5 Kermanshah, Iran - 229 micrograms per cubic meter.
4 Ludhiana, India - 251 micrograms per cubic meter.
3 Sanandaj, Iran - 254 micrograms per cubic meter.
2 Ulaan Baator, Mongolia - 279 micrograms per cubic meter.
And Drum roll please.........................................................................
1 Ahvaz, Iran - 372 micrograms per cubic meter!

Then we found out the cleanest city in the world is our very own Windy Wellington.  Can you guess which picture is Wellington? 

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