Mathletics poster

Last week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday our class has been doing some mathletics posters on our own design. First we practiced doing some designs that were already made, and then we started on making our design. I hope you enjoy reading my reflection. :)

Mathletics 2013 reflection by Tyrone

Something I was pleased with was  my mathletics poster because it looks cool with the black and white squares, it also looks cool with the 3D stars in the eyes.

I really enjoyed learning how to make a Mathletics poster because it was fun and I got to create something like and then make my own design.

Something I found hard was figuring out what kind of design I could create.

Something that made me think was working out what kind of design I should make.

Balloon rocket

Last week our class did a science experiment in room 15. We got given a piece of paper that had some stuff written down on it, we had to write down what we thought was going to happen before we did some science. I hope you enjoy! :)

Balloon Rocket!

Equipment:

• 3 balloons (just incase if one or two of them pop)
• 1 long piece of kite string (about 10-15 feet long)
• Tape
• 1 plastic straw

Method:

1. Tie one end of the string to a chair, door knob, or the other support.
2. Put the other end of the string through the straw.
3. Pull the string tight and tie it to another support in the room.
4. Blow up the balloon (don’t tie it.) Pinch the end of the balloon and tape the balloon to the straw shown below. Now you're ready to launch!
5. Just let go of the end and watch it zoom off.
   

   Prediction

   Zeb: The balloon will fly across the line.

   Tyrone:The balloon will go across the line like a rocket and run out of oxygen or air in it and it will stop.

   Observation

   Zeb: The balloon went zooming across the line.

   Tyrone: The balloon flew across the string and got from one chair to the other.

   Explanation

   Zeb: The air was pushing the balloon across the line.

   Tyrone: The air or oxygen comes out of the balloon causing it to move the opposite direction of the end of the balloon.

    CREATED BY Zeb AND Tyrone.
   

   
   

Science: Boat or Submarine

Today (4/11/13), our class did a science experiment in room 20. We had to decide what kind of shape we would be doing for the experiment. Then when after we had created the shape with clay, we placed it into the water and counted the coins we placed into the clay and when it sunk we took 1 away from our count. For example: if I counted 7 coins and it sunk on the last coin I minus one coin which equals 6. I hope you enjoy reading this science experiment! :)

Question/Goal/ problem

Make a shape that will hold more than 11 coins

What shape of container will hold the most weight ?

We are choosing a pan because it is wide and the wider it is, the more water keeps it afloat

Hypothesis

It will be able to hold more than 5 coins.

Materials

Container filled with water, modelling clay, old coins

Method (What I did)

Create a boat out of modelling clay.

I Fill the container with water.

Place the boat carefully onto the water so it floats.

One at a time , put coins carefully into the boat . Count how many coins are in the boat before it sinks.

Observation/ Analyse

We made a pan and we got 5 coins in so that's pretty good we thought we needed the pan to be bigger.

Conclusion  

It sank because it was probably tall and not wide enough. It floated because it was wide. The width and the length was about 44 cm wide.  

Where are my eye balls!!

This is fun!

I rich! NOT

Science: Speedboat

Here is my Science report on a cardboard boat and a paper clip. This is all on how it floats and why. I hope you enjoy reading it. :)

Race a Speedboat

Can you make a paper boat race across the water just by gently touching the surface of the water?

Hypothesis (What I think will happen) The boat might sink because water might get on it causing it to shred to pieces.

Wrong!

Materials

Coloured card, washing up liquid, pencil or sharpie, scissors, large container of water.

Method (What we did)

1. Filled a container with a bit of water.
2. Poured some washing up liquid into the container.
3. We cut a piece of cardboard into a boat.
4. Now we place the boat into the water.

Observation (What happened)

Mr Severinson poured a bit of washing up liquid into the container. Marcus placed his cardboard boat into the water and nothing happened until Marcus put his finger in behind the boat and it went 10 cm away from where he dipped his finger in.

Conclusion (Why I think it happened)

The washing up liquid broke the surface tension making it weaker and the other end stronger, causing the boat to move when you place your finger into the water.

Short Experiment to Follow Up

Make Metal Float

Gently place a paperclip on the water’s surface.

Hypothesis (What I think will happen)

I think it might float because it’s light.

I was right about it floating but not about it being light?

Observation (What happened)

The paper clip floated when henry had his hand underneath but when he moved his hand away, the paper clip sunk.

Conclusion (Why I think it happened)

Because there was no hole or anything on the surface. If there was a hole in the water the paper clip will not float, dipping your hand in is causing to make a hole and the paper clip will only float when the surface is just flat.

Science:Does air have weight?

On the 29/10/13 our class did a science experiment on air and if it has a weight and it does. This is something on how air does have weight.  Hope you enjoy reading this. :)

Does air have weight?

Equipment: Ruler

                   2 newspapers, or one

Prediction: Q. Does air have weight?

No, air does not have weight because if it did, we would be carrying air.

A. Air does have weight, it weighs 15 pounds per square inch.

Observe: When Ollie karate chopped the ruler it didn’t break because nothing was on the end of it, Mr M got a piece of newspaper and scrunched it up and placed it on the ruler. This time the when Ollie karate chopped the ruler the ruler did not snap but the scrunched newspaper went into the air and floated down in 5 seconds. Mr M got newspaper and instead of screwing it up, he flattened it and placed it on top of the ruler. Now when Ollie karate chopped the ruler it snapped, why you say, well if you want to now read my explanation below.

Explain: The ruler broke because Mr M had flattened the newspaper , and while he was doing that air was coming out causing the air to push down onto the newspaper and the ruler would eventually break or snap. This sometimes failed because the newspaper wasn’t flattened enough.

Whoa, fascinating.

Fire the catapult!

My report by Tyrone

This is my report on this year in room 16 as a year 5, I hope you enjoy reading it.  :)

My year so far in Room 16 by Tyrone

My favourite thing about being in Room 16 in 2013 is that I’m in a computer class and that I can share stuff on my blog and they can comment about it.

Something I would like to do in term four is make lego comics about the room 16 superhero stories  with Lego digital designer and Comic life.

Something I would like to do next year is play rugby?

My dream job would be to be in the army.

Reading

The best thing about reading so far this year is actively learn.

The best thing I read this year was Dead Harry. I enjoyed it because it sounded fun and  it had a lot of action. The funny thing was when a teacher said “Have a nice barbeque kids” when a fire was happening.

This is my favourite reading blog post that I created. I chose it because it was my second reading blog post I think and it’s very interesting how the whale got born.

This is my favourite reading post from someone else. I think it is awesome because it had the part when Thunder skull sacrificed his life to save the others and then at the end the team heard a mysterious voice. I really want to see what happens next.

Maths

The best thing about maths so far this year is power lines when you can try and figure out the questions.

I was most proud of learning how to do area and perimeter. I was proud because I didn’t know how to do area and perimeter and it was fun learning this.

This is my favourite maths blog post that I created. I chose it because it looks cool and it was fun hiding Mr M and Marcus trying to find it.

This is my favourite maths post from someone else. I think it is awesome because he has done some really good work on hiding Mr M too, I also like how Marcus drew the island as a creeper face

I am really good power lines phase 1 but I forget the the answers to the questions.

I want to get better at doing times tables quicker in my head.

Writing

The best thing about writing so far this year is that you can make up stories about our super hero and the other room 16 superheroes.

I was most proud of learning how to write cool stories. I was proud because it was pretty cool and I could imagine it in my head while I was writing it.

This is my favourite writing blog post that I created. I chose it because I had really fun writing it and that it had some

This is my favourite writing post from someone else. I think it is awesome because it had some funny things that happened in the story and it Inderpreet put in a cool bad guy and he had a cool name too.

I am really good at writing stories with made up creations or something?

I want to get better at writing stories.

Integrated Topic

My favourite part of topic has been drawing a coat of arms.  I enjoyed it because I got to draw some stuff and a shield and I enjoyed making it.

This is my favourite topic blog post that I created. I chose it because I really like the drawing of the video game controllers, the gun and the grenade.

This is my favourite topic post from someone else. I think it is awesome because he drawed a pretty cool NZ flag and he told what the drawings were of.

School Involvement

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How I Have Shown PRIDE

Personal  Best: Trying my best at Multiplication grand prix.

Respect and Responsibility: Taking care of my dog and respecting how he gets dirty after he gets cleaned but maybe hes just doing that to get dried off because he's wet.

Integrity: Trying to win a game of multiplication grand prix and in the end as I come 1st-last.

Determination: Winning a game like netball dodgeball.

Enjoyment: Enjoying a game of netball dodgeball even though I lose.

Science experiment:air exists

On Monday 21st of October we did an science experiment on air and how it exists. Here is something our class did to prove air exists. I hope you have fun doing this science experiment! :)

  AIR EXISTS

Equipment:  Container  filled with H20 (water)

                    Jar

                    Paper towel

Predict: Will the paper stay dry? I think the paper won’t stay dry. Why? Because the paper will be in the bucket.

Observe: The paper was screwed up a bit and it got put in a jar and the person holding the jar would quickly tip the jar into the water upside down. When he brang it back up, the paper didn’t fall out and it was totally dry.

Explain: The paper was dry because the paper was touching the edges of the jar from the inside causing it to not fall out of the jar and how the paper was touching the edges were because you screwed it up a bit, but if you screwed it up heaps, it would fall out. Also, if you hadn't of quickly tipped the jar into the water upside down, water would have got into the jar causing the paper to get wet.

Collage and Dot art

Last week I started on my dot art, I chose my dot art as my Calender art because it looked cool and I really enjoyed making the collage art because I got to cut out stuff from magazines or paper on colored paper.

I'm evil. 

Turn that frown, upside down.

Holiday Highlights 1

Today our class has been writing about the school holidays and we might have some picture, but I have heaps of them under neath all the writing. I hope you have fun reading this. :)

                          LASER-FORCE

When we get to Laser-Force we run inside and go walk up to the counter. Mum paid about $149 I think, it was our turn next and we got our suits on but we did not have even teams. It was 5 against 4, Elijah, Zeb and Zach were on my team and Ethan, Ben, Cam and Aidan were on Dylan's Team. All of us split up and hide, when the music started I shot a couple of people and then they shot me. Zeb was walking with me and I tried to walk up stairs but I couldn't. Ethan shot me 4 times when I was standing still and trying to shoot him, Elijah was hiding somewhere and Zach was camping. I walked up stairs and shot Dylan, Ben, Aidan and Zeb helped me, but then we had to retreat because they were walking up. When we finished we took off the armor and walked up to the machine that shows who won and the red team won because they had the most people. We played on the arcade machines, I played ‘Metal Slug’ and it was 2 player so I asked if Elijah wanted to play and he said yes.

I chose 1 boy and Elijah chose a boy. When it started we shot the first bad guys we saw and when we met the first BOSS I throw grenades and then I ran out. The next BOSS was a helicopter and it had a machine gun and we had to up to get it but if we stayed in the same area we would dye. We killed the helicopter 4 times because we died.

In the 3rd round we were facing little kids and two adults and 1 teenager“Come on red team” I say, “we need to get up onto the upper floor before the green team come.” All of the red team (except for Zeb because he put on a green suit) were upstairs and we waited for the green team to come.  10 minutes later.....   “Oh now they come” I said, the music starts and the green team are somewhere where we can’t shoot them. Some people were coming up but we shot them and they went back to cover, “Elijah and Dylan, can you please cover me while I go down stairs with Ben” I say. I hid behind a wall and shot 2 kids, then I saw Ben and told him to come over here. After a while I bunch of kids were going to go down stairs but Elijah and Dylan weren't there to shoot them so me and Ben shot them our selves and they ran or walked away so we won’t shoot them again. I walked up to Zeb and he shot me and I ran to cover. I shot little kids who were walking almost anywhere. Then the game was over and I noticed it was over because it said Game over man, Game over. Then we hopped in the car and got home. Then we had a war......

To be continued.....

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Pictures from laser force:

So, thirsty, must, have, drink....

Sup.

The evil looking red team. >:)

The happy green team. :)

"I'm ready to go out to war" (Loading gun)

"Keep your eye on the ball"

What you looking at?

"I need some help with this"