Summer Learning Journey Day 1 A1, A2, Bonus Activity

Germany:

There are two reasons why I chose Germany because it looks really interesting and I am excited to learn more about it. It is well known and famous for their food. Which everybody loves to eat. Sauerkraut and bratwurst sausages. There are the most common food in Germany.

It is a western-european country with landscape of forests, rivers, mountain ranges and north sea beaches.

The amount of people in Germany is 81.1 million people.

-Football is one of Germany’s most popular sport.
-Germany is one of the members of the European Union
-Did you know that over 100 Germans have been awarded Nobel prize in their field. As well as Albert Einstein who was also born in Germany.
These are the three facts about Germany

Letter to my sister: Hi Mia, this letter is to you just letting you know that I am going to a trip to Germany. I would like you to join me and come and explore their traditions and history. I have decided to go because I am writing posts about Germany and I have also entered a blogging competition. I will be there for about 4 days and come back.   

Explosions

Walt: Synthesise information from multiple sources.  

Success Criteria: I can make links between the multiple resources I access to determine what is a physical or chemical change?

This presentation is about explosions. Our group Dr Seuss and all the other groups had to read 5 texts and write one sentence per text. We had to answer the following questions and post it to our blogs with our learning intention.

My Mentos & Fizzy Drink Animation

 
Loseli's Experiment from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Hi this is my animation I have created. This term we are learning about the three states of matter. Solids, Liquids and Gas. The experiment that I have created is a mentos and fizzy drink experiment. Team 5 had to chose one experiment so that we animate it. Hope you enjoy.

Word Problem W7

Walt: Apply my number knowledge to word problems

This is week 7's maths work. my learning intention is applying my number knowledge to word problems. Our maths teacher Mrs Tele'a has given us a presentation to answer and solve. Then post to our blog.

Letter of Support

WALT: Compose a letter using vocabulary to add effect. 

Dear Peter and Jules (Waiau Family)

I am genuinely sorry for what you have been through. I desperately hope you are alright and safe with your family. I am also sorry for your granddaughters past and also her young brother.   

I am extremely sorry for your house being destroyed by the devastating earthquake that has been hit in North Canterbury. I understand that Sophia is buried inside the same plot with her little brother.

Many memories of your granddaughter will always be in your heart. It is good that you are shifting Sophia’s memorial stone and cross. To your new home. I hope you are safe and that you don’t have injuries, also your family.

I am a student from Pt England School, up north in Auckland. My name is Loseli and I am writing this letter to you for support of your family and your community.

Sincerely, Loseli

This is a letter of support to the people who have been hit in Kaikorua Wellington and other places that the earthquake has hit. This letter has been written to the Waiau family. Their house has been destroyed by the terrifying earthquake. I really hope they are okay and that God will be with them. God Bless Waiau Family.

Rewriting Instructions

Pick up an egg, gently hit it against the side of a bowl and empty the contents into a clean bowl.	Grab an egg and crack it beside the bowl.
Open the fridge and take out the butter. Take off the lid. Get a knife and use it to scoop some butter. Rub the knife onto the toast.	Get the butter from the fridge, get the knife and scoop come butter out and rub it into the toast.
Hold the two shortest sides of paper and bend them together. Squeeze them so that the paper is now in half.	Get a piece of paper and fold it in half.
When you hear the sound of the whistle, move one leg in front of the other as quickly as you can.	If you hear the whistle run as fast as you can.
When player One had rolled the die, they should hand it to player Two, who should then roll it too. The person with the highest score moves their counter first.	When player one has it’s turn rolling the die. It is player two’s turn to roll the die. The player with the highest score moves their counter first.
If you want to turn on the computer, look for the round, lack power button and press it once.	If you want to go on the computer find the circle power button and turn it on.
Hold the handles of the scissors and cut along the dotted line, making sure you don’t hurt yourself.	Hold the scissors with your hands and cut along the dotted line on the paper. Make sure you don’t cut yourself.
Before you start mixing the ingredients, switch on the oven and turn the dial to 140 degrees.	Before mixing the ingredients turn on the oven to dial to 140 degrees.
Take the lid off the glue stick and rub the glue on the tab, being careful not to get any glue on your clothes.	Grab a glue stick and rub it on the tab. Make sure you don’t get glue on your clothing.
When you have planted your seed, pick up the pot and move it it near to a window where it will get lots of sunlight.	Once you have finished planting your seed, pick up the pot and move it near to a window where it will have lots of sunlight.

This week for writing we have been looking at rewriting instructions. This was our writing for literacy. 

The Scientific Method

Title -  Fizzy Drink and Mentos Experiment

Purpose: What do you want to learn/find out?

Which drink has the biggest reaction to the mentos.

Hypothesis: Try to predict the answer to the problem. Another term for hypothesis is ‘educated guess’. This is usually stated like ” If I…(do something) then…(this will occur)

I think the biggest reaction might be the one that is desperately reacted to the mentos. I think it might explode a little bit because there was not that much liquid in it.

Materials: List everything you will need to conduct your experiment.

We used five different sodas: Coke, Diet Coke, Fanta, L&P, 7 Up, and Pepsi Packets of Mentos We used sellotape to put the mentos in it. After that we went outside so the sodas won’t fall out to the carpet. We then putted the mentos inside each one of the fizzy drinks.

Experiment procedure: The fun part! Design a test or procedure to confirm or disprove your hypothesis. Write down each step so that someone else could do the same experiment.

Get a pair of scissors or any kind of sharp object and create an hole in the middle of the soda cap. Get a piece of sellotape and stick 5 mentos onto it. Place the sticked mentos inside each of the caps and leave it there for someone to pull the sellotape to see how high it can go. Don’t forget to measure with a ruler.

Analysis/Data: Record what happened during the experiment.

When I looked at the mentos go down to the liquid, it fizzed up. Also the carbon dioxide released from the bottle which is also called gas. All of the sodas exploded a little bit, maybe because there was not that much liquid in it.

Conclusion: Review the data and check to see if your hypothesis was correct.

As I was saying about the prediction not all of the foam went up because it failed. So I was right about the mentos and fizzy drink experiment.

This is a scientific method I was working on. I have been working on it for about 25 minutes and this is about the experiments we had during the past few weeks. I hope you enjoy.