Merry Christmas

Hello pod 9,
Just wanted to say I wish all of you a very merry Christmas and I hope you all will have a safe Christmas too. I going to tell you what Im doing for Christmas because Im really excited and I really have to tell some one so what Im doing is going to the beach with my family and we are going to have a christmas lunch there and my poppy is going to bring his boat and we are going to buy a hotdog or a buscuit (not the foodthe sea toys) and weare going to have so much fun.Well Merry Christmas and have a happy 2009 oh wait I almost forgot good luck for the year 6's that are going to intermedit (however you spell it) have fun and tell me year 5 and6's what class you are going in. Bye

Street Art

During this final term of 2008, our topic for art has been street art. The key concepts that we have been exploring have been:

1. The use of modern fonts over traditional fonts,
2. The contrast of using cold colours and hot coulurs, and
3. The use of space, and in particular the layering, or overlapping of letters in words.

Every student in Pod 9 made their work based around a fruit. Their work has been compiled into this slideshow. They worked really hard to achieve these results, and I feel these photos do not provide the same effect as seeing the works in real life, so to speak.

I think you'll see the quality that everybody strived for during this learning.
Enjoy.




Mr B.

Theme

This is our theme work about falling and sinking

Falling and sinking are the same because....

-both involve objects being pulled by gravity.

-both can be reduced by making things wider and flatter in shape.

Falling and sinking are different because....

-objects fall through air and sink through liquid.

-falling is faster than sinking because liquid is thicker than air.

-some objects that fall, don't sink.

We made tin foil boats to make rocks float.

The best designs that held the most weight were the ones that had the largest areas and had high sides. The high sides stopped the water getting in and the large areas stopped the shapes falling through the water.

Hurupaki Tapuwae Champions

Today Pod 9 and Pod 10 played the final of the Hurupaki Senior School Tapuwae competition. It was a very tight battle, with some very long periods of play without goals being scored.

In the end Pod 9 came out on top by a score of 18-15. Both teams played exceptionally well and can be proud of the way that they played - hard but fair. Pod 7 finished third, and Pod 8 fourth.

On the whole, I think the competition has been a success and I intend to run similiar competitions next year.

Hopefully we will have photos of the "trophy presentation" next week, depending on when it will be held.

Mr B.

Gravity

The force of gravity is constant, all objects fall at the same rate.

Fair testing

A fair test is when all conditions are exactly the same for both tests.

Things we used for tests ...

-Blue shot put

-Green shot put

-Red petanque ball

-Green hockey ball

-Brown hockey ball

-Tennis ball

-Green petanque ball

-Sponge

-Foam softball

In all fair tests, the objects landed at the same time. This means that the force of gravity IS constant. All objects fall at the same rate!!!!

That is what we learned about gravity yesterday ... so we'll post some more tomorrow.

Elmoluva

slowest to fall fastest to fall

The flat paper fell slowly because it had the most area hitting the air. The air stopped the paper from falling.

The streamlined paper fell quickly because the air only hit a small area of the paper. The air could not push the paper.

What do we know about Gravity?

Yesterday the class watched some videos about skydiving and the use of parachutes and discussed how and why things fall or sink. We had used a bus stop activity to explore some ideas about gravity and air. There were 7 statements written on card that each individual had to decide was true or false.

Some of the statements were "Air can push against things", "When an object is floating, it is not falling", and "We can speed up or slow down the rate at which an object falls through the air." Some of the results were very interesting.









Click on the pictures to get a better look at them.
At the end of our unit, we will revisit these and see if our opinions have changed at all.