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Simone Teaching Maths

Children teaching each other is a great way for children to learn.
Simone is teaching a trick to learn the 9 times tables.

Cocoa Visited Today

Cocoa visited the class during class time this afternoon which is rare. Not only did she visit - but she stayed the whole afternoon !!!!!!!  This is the first time I have ever seen her stay in the classroom with so many children. They were brilliant with her.
Here she is on the couch.

Running Training

We were so fortunate today to have Aleisha, Roxie's mum, come in to give us some hints on running. She is a physiotherapist so taught us about the importance of preparing our muscles for exercise. We learnt some new stretches and warm up activities. I know the children can't wait for her to come again.

Coca Cola Experiment

 We have been doing more experiments about food and what ingredients are in our food. We looked at the ingredients in a coke bottle. They were water, sugar, colouring, and acid.

 To find out how much sugar was in a coke bottle we decided to evaporate the water by boiling it in a frypan on the stove.

 When the water has evaporated we were left with a sticky black mixture. We poured this onto some baking paper. This is what we were left with. This is just sugar and food colouring.

 If we crushed this up we think this would be about 5 teaspoons of sugar.

So imagine drinking a bottle of fresh water and then being offered 5 teaspoons of sugar to eat.

 We also boiled the water off some orange juice.

There is a lot of sugar in orange juice too - a lot of this is pulp though.

Mr E's Box

Mr E, the music teacher, told us a story of how his step dad had a wooden box in his wardrobe that he wasn’t allowed to touch - EVER.

Mr E was tempted to look in the box but he never did, even when he was alone in the house.

When his stepdad died the box was given to Mr E.

This is what we think was in the box.

I am guessing that in the wooden box is the tuxedo he wore to his wedding,it is black and comes with a red bow tie and is made of silk. Mr E wasn’t allowed it because it is delicate and he could break it by tearing it apart into a gazzilion pieces of silk. It belonged to his great,great,great,great grandfather. Rikihana

I think that in mr Es box is nothing. Because he wanted to to test his new son. He wanted to test his new son. He wasn't  allowed to open the box because his stepdad wanted to know if he would or wouldn’t fail the test. So if Mr E opened it he would see nothing but thin air. That’s what I think happened. Ezra

In Mr E’s box might be a old clockwork model blue train from 1979 made out of metal the size of a shoe. I think it was kept away from him because it was so old and you could break it. His dad got it from a stall at a market for $10 000 000. He might have it on a shelf in the doorway. Denali

Mr E has a box, he knows what’s in it but we don’t. I’m guessing it is a scroll from 1899 and it’s been passed on from family generations. It’s probably a dirty brown and dusty yellow colour. I think it was found on a muddy path. He was probably not allowed to touch it because he might rip it to dust. I think that’s what’s in it. Greta

Mr E came to read our thoughts.

VIP - Denali

Denali brought in a multi tool to show to the class. It has so many different functions.