Sunday 14 August 2016

Week Four

Happy Sunday!  

We are heading into Week 4 of the term and fingers crossed for some slightly better weather than last week!  It has been a fun couple of weeks with lots of experiments and discoveries about the wonders of water.  Thanks for bringing in your experiments from home - the children have enjoyed sharing them. 

We will wrap up our water topic this week with a focus on what we use water for.  We have our fingers and toes crossed that something big and red will come and visit our Kowhanga on Tuesday around 11am and we will be able to confirm this on Tuesday morning.  Feel free to join us - siblings welcome. To prepare for this visit we will talk about fire safety on Monday afternoon.  

In a couple of weeks we will be visiting Pataka in Porirua as part of our up and coming unit on Change Across the Generations.  More information to come out this week.  

Our maths focus will look at fractions.  Children will bring home some homework this week on fractions, on top of their usual reading/spelling/class story.  Many thanks in advance for your support with this. 

On Thursday morning the children will participate in a cricket skills session delivered by cricket experts.  There is no charge for this. 

It is library week this week and we will be getting involved I X number of activities throughout the week. Check out our library blog: http://huttcentralschoollibrary.blogspot.co.nz/
And  the library week website: 

Yay, have a great week! 😊

Sunday 7 August 2016

Is Oil Lighter than Water?

We have been experimenting with water in lots of different ways in our Kowhanga. This experiment involved water, oil and food colouring. We wanted to find out what would happen if the two substances mixed together. 




We discovered that water is denser than oil, which is why oil sits on the top of water, because it is lighter! The food colouring was the most dense, and sank to the bottom. 

We also discovered that our results differed depending on how much oil we added to the water. Interesting stuff!