The beans root have grown from 52mm to 102mm to 185mm

Book Week Friday Fun

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Dome Strength

We brainstormed strong 3D shapes on the whiteboard . We said that an arch was a strong shape, then we talked about where your weight would go if we stood on an arch bridge. We had a lot of ideas about where our weight would go but we found out that it went down the curved sides towards the ground.Then we demonstrated with our arms how strong a dome is with Jonty and Mrs Bryant pushing the top of our hands down. It was fun experimenting with domes.

By Ruby and Kimberly

On Wednesday 4th Hoiho class did a science experiment. What we did is we got four empty three quarter eggshells. We put two eggshells close together at one end and two at the other end in a rectangle shape. Then we started to put blocks on.  

By Margeaux 

Some people thought that the eggshells wouldn’t hold three blocks. We stacked the third block on the empty 3/4 eggshells. Finn, Jacob, David

We put on the 4th block and there was a loud CRACK! Everyone yelled and I said "That was close". And one eggshell was cracked now. By Patrick 

Then we placed the tenth block on top of the ninth block. And the eggs didn’t break. Caleb

On the 14th block we heard a crack in an eggshell and it collapsed like the twin towers. By Margeaux

On Thursday we were writing like scientists about doing a forces experiment. First we did the title then the materials. After that we did the hypothesis. Then we did the procedures which took a while. Last of all we did the conclusion.

By Lawson and Sam

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Covenant

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Picking Up Rubbish

On Friday Hoiho class went to pick up rubbish next to the estuary. We found lots of funny things like shoes, half of a cup and glass bottles! We went into groups of six or more. Each group had an adult to walk with them. Mrs Bryant wrote the start of some complex sentences and we finished them. Here are some of them.

Bat On

The Hobbits Reading group created this poem in response to a poem they read called Kick Off.

 Bat On
The team wants to be the ball flying through the sky,
The ball wants to be the bat whacking sixes,
The bat wants to be the pads protecting the batsman’s body,
The pad wants to be the bowler bowling the ball at the wickets,
The bowler wants to be the umpire putting out the finger,
The umpire wants to be the fielder catching the ball,
The fielders want to be the wickets getting smacked down,
The wickets want to be the crowd cheering out at the end of the game,
The crowd wants to be the team, holding the World Cup ...

Octopus Story by Kimberly, Grace and Ruby