Science fair

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This term Ohaeawai school are doing a science fair on up up & away. Year 5&6 had to get into groups of four or five, I have five people in my group including me they are Taylor, Mia, Jessica and Lani. We are doing Elephant Toothpaste. We had to get cups, liquid dish washing soap, 3 Tablespoons of warm water, safety goggles and a lot more.
I will let you know how it went when we have the science fair tomorrow.

Foaming and Fizzing experiment 2017

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This week my whole class did an experiment on Foaming and Fizzing. First we all had to taste the baking soda and the vinegar then we had to get in our groups. Next we had to pour the baking soda into the vinegar and lastly we had to taste it. I thought it tasted like beer and it was salty,sour and yuck. At the end of the day we all had to do an Foaming and Fizzing document of what we thought. Here is a picture.

B E G I N N I N G	TITLE	Yuck and Sour!
	QUESTION.	If we mix vinegar and baking soda together will we observe some kind of reaction?
	THESIS.	Vinegar tastes sour and it is a liquid. Baking soda is a solid,soft white powder and it tastes salty and horrible. They are both food substances but based on their different. So,is they are mixed  together, there might be a chemical reaction.
	HYPOTHESIS.	We predict that when we mix vinegar and baking soda an observable chemical will occur. We might see and hear an explosion, fire, foaming, bubbles, fizzing or something else. The resulting mixture might even be a difference in the size of the materials.

M I D D L E	EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS:	Baking soda Vinegar Container for mixing Teaspoon for mixing
	PROCEDURE	Step 1:Pour some vinegar into a container to a depth of about 2cm. Step 2: Use a teaspoon to measure in half of teaspoon of baking soda. Step 3: Mix with teaspoon. Step 4: Observe and record what happens.
	OBSERVATIONS:	At Step 2 the mixture started to fizz. A fizzing sound was heard,bubbles were seen to appear in the mixture and the materials rose higher in the container. At Step 3,when the materials were mixed,even more bubble appeared and the volume of the materials in the container rose even higher. When the mixture was tasted, the taste was unpleasant and was similar to baking soda.

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ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSION

The goal of this experiment was to see if an observable  reaction would take place when vinegar and baking soda were mixed together. The result of our experiment prove that our hypothesis was correct. We predicted that there would be an observable reaction, and there was. There was lots foaming and fizzing happening and bubbles appeared which mean a gas must have been produced. A quick check online showed us that the gas was carbon dioxide.

Going into room 5&6

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This week on Wednesday and Thursday most of the seniors went to Auckland zoo for the Zoofari trip. Some of us did not go so then we had to go to other class rooms to do our work and help the other kids in the class. I was in room 5&6 helping them and helping the teachers. On Wednesday I was cutting and drawing all day. I was getting help from Taylor. She was in room 5&6 with me. I had a good time in Rooms 5&6.

Bon voyage

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This week Miss Fletcher has been in our class teaching us Bon Voyage. Bon Voyage is an opinion site for students.The first opinion was about why dogs are the most incredible pets in the entire world. I got it correct . Here is my one.  I hope you like it.   

  

Basic facts progress

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Here is my basic facts progress for this year. In Term 1 I was working on Stage 5 and I got a score of 34/60. In Term 2, my basic facts score for Stage 5 was 0/60 so my teachers said I was ready for Stage 6. So, I did the Stage 6 test and got 25/45. There is some hard stuff on Stage 6 but I’m lucky because we have some expert kids in Team Moana who can help us.

Learning Journey Master 2017

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Today my class had to fill out a Learning Journey for our Portfolio folder.

Last year we also had to do it and I did not do it because I was not here.

Here is my one.

Learning Journey 2017

Reading At age level Term      1      2     3      4						Spelling - Grade Spelling Term   1      2      3     4						Maths Stage 6 by end of Year 5 End Stage 6 by end of Year 6
14.5-15+												Stage 7
14-15yrs												Stage 6		E6
13.5-14						5						Stage 5
13-14 yrs						4						Stage 4
12.5-13						Essential List Term 1   2    3    4						Stage 2-3
12-13yrs						8						Term	1	2	3	4
11.5-12.5						7						Writing - Expected Levels Year 5 - 3B by the end of Year 5 Year 6 - 3A by the end of Year 6
11-12yrs						6		6.2
10.5-11.5						5						Term	1	2	3	4
10-11yrs						4						Level		2A
9.5-10.5						3
9-10yrs						2						Basic Facts	T1	T2	T3	T4
8.5-9.5yrs						1								L3 S6