Room 17 MVS 2018

Watch this space for some amazing science experiment photos. The students had a blast... LITERALLY...for some!  While we wait for our photos to be downloaded, check out this ingenious construction by Ronan and Brayden - a DNA STRAND!

Here is a sample of the amazing jewellery we made out of salt dough.  A number of students helped make the dough today & then the students chose a design that they could relate to.  CHECK THESE OUT!

Great effort by the Year 5/6 Teams today at Hobsonville Point Secondary School. Unfortunately we didn't get in the top 3, but we certainly gave it our all. Big paki paki to all of the students who participated.

This week the Year 5 classes started their science rotations. Here are some amazing photos of Room 17 doing an experiment with Mrs Riddell in Room 15. HOW CAN RED CABBAGE BE USED AS AN INDICATOR? Red cabbage contains a chemical called anthocyanin that changes colour depending on the acidity of its environment. This means it is a pH indicator, a gauge that tells you how acidic or basic the surrounding environment is. Red cabbage is purple in a pH-neutral environment, but it turns pink in an acidic environment and bluish-green in a basic environment. The experiment the students did uses red cabbage as the pH indicator and put with different liquids, they could see which liquids are acidic and which liquids are basic.

I couldn't resist posting this photo. Nica learnt how to do the 'cat's whiskers' with string & Yolanda decided to be the cat's ears.  GREAT JOB GIRLS!

This week a new student joined our class. Dinglun Shang arrived from Beijing to be part of Marina View School. He has asked that we call him Kevin. We also had Daisy start a couple of weeks ago. We love having her too!

Today (Thursday 7th June) we had our HEALTHY SHARED LUNCH.  The students had been working on an authentic math task where they had to come up with a shopping list which consisted of healthy food choices for our shared lunch.         Following on from our Food for Thought programme, then our Pak n' Save trip, we were given $60.00 to buy our lunch. We spent $60.45c. The marshmellows were to go with our 'healthy' fruit kebabs. Here are some photos of our lunch.