Water vs Pepsi

One of the class blogs Mrs P follows is Team Kakapo's class blog.  They have some predictions about our wonderings, What liquids help seeds to grow the best? 

Hi everyone in LC10 we in Team Kakapo thought that we would share our predictions with you.

We have two queries or questions

Olsen - You are using cold tea to feed them aren't you?

Jackson (you won't know me I'm a cool new guy)  Is the coke flat or bubbly?

Tim - Are you doing one lot with just water?  (Mrs H a control group)

Maddison W - Are you putting the same amount of liquid fertiliser on each day?

Mrs H - You have set up all the other conditions the same, ie same sized pots, soil,  etc so that you are having a fair test?

Our predictions are

coke - 1

worm pee - 7

hand sanitiser  - 0

Sugar water - 13

Tea - 4

So that's what we think.    Good luck and please let us know if the flavour is affected by the liquid fertiliser.

Shackelton and Team Kakapo

What makes plants great?

Our inquiry for Term 4 is looking at plants.

Here are our wonderings click here

Here is our learning so far


Loads of resources!

plant parts

Many uses of plants

life cycle of plants

Where do plants grow?

Build a plant

Grow a plant

Zip the expert

photosynthesis

Ewwwwww

Our experiment of seeing which bread would keep longer has resulted in a quote from Liam..."The room is smelling of stinky socks!" It was the perfect time to photograph our evidence.

What can you see?
Here are some of our thoughts...

There is no wonder they call it mouldy bread. Because its an old, it is a bigger loaf and it is made from different materials  Brody

I think the olden day bread got mouldier quicker because it doesn't have the same ingredients in it as the bread now days Yoris  

  

I think that it has mould on it because it has been inside the bag for a long time Leila 

Yesterday there was some bread and it was really mouldy and every one smelled it and it smelt yuck Dallas

No wonder it is called mouldy bread

I think our mouldy bread is mouldier because it stayed in the plastic bag for longer Sophie

For Interchange this week Room 10 made Maori bread. We waited for 18 days. It was a long time but finally it started to grow mould Thomas 

I  think the mouldy bread  is called Maori bread because it'sbeen in the plastic  bag  too long and it can probably grow mould with no air in the bag Jennifer

I think the Maori bread went mouldy because air could not go through the bag Lilly

  

Some of us wondered who put strawberry jam on the bread!

This is Bruce's bread after 18 days of incubation.  

This is our Maori bread after 16 days of incubation

On Monday LC10 made Maori bread. Then we hung up bread it took 2 or 3 day then we waited for about 20 days then we looked at it. It was all mouldy. It smelt worse than our Dads socks. There was red mould on the Maori bread. The Maori bread was mouldier than the normal                                                           bread.  

The 3 R's

Helping us learn more about how we can reduce the amount of rubbish that goes into our landfills we are learning this song as our weekly poem and have been practicing it in our Pukeko Presents every other Friday.

Dinosaur Inquiry

Over the past weeks the KIWI team have been learning about dinosaurs.  We have discovered this site that helped us learn if dinosaurs were herbivores or carnivores (or our new names we came up with meat o saurus and plant o saurus).  Come and play Dinosaur appetite

This Dinosaur song was a favourite!  We loved acting out the song using our own moves.

Samantha and Caleb 

George and Isabel

Nikita and Bode playing dinosaur appetite

Brooklyn and George designing their own dinosaur

Asher and Isabel getting a question correct

Harrison and Caleb painting a Jurassic picture 

Jacob and Joe building their own dinosaur

Ask Samantha wether a Triceratops is a meat eater or a plant eater

Inquiry Celebration

Thank you to all the parents and Grandparents that turned up.  We all enjoyed sharing our learning with everyone.  A real favourite was using the laptops to play interactive games about living things.

Alex and Nico learning about what living animals need

Seth and Izac finding out about butterfly life cycles

Jayme's Mum helping Jayme and Myia with their own life cycles

Tamara and Julia working on a life cycle together

Great life cycle of a frog Myia, love the frog spawn

Nicholas showing his Mum about what he has learnt

Bailey and Izac taking turns making a life cycle of a frog

Nico's brother joining in

Jordan showing his Mum about animal life cycles

Connor's Nana helping him make his life cycle

Liam and Kyan sharing some new animal facts

Tamara and Julia working out what is a plant and an animal

Here are some of our favourites
Butterfly, bird and frog life cycles

Learn about butterflies

Food or plant?