Kia Ora, we are a collaborative Year 4-6 team at Wesley Primary School, NZ. Our teachers are Whaea Sam, Catherine, Whaea Ocea & Mr Toóala.
Farewell to our amazing Year 6's, we wish you all the best for Intermediate. Wear your pounamu's with pride and let it be your Kaitiaki on your new journey.
We look forward to seeing the Year 4's and 5's again next year and are excited for the Year 3's and Catherine to be joining our team!
Do you know the person who discovered the theory of gravity? His name was Sir Isaac Newton. In Kea we are learning about gravity and we did an experiment on it. We gathered up ten items to see which item will hit the ground first. First, we had to vote in our groups on which item, when comparing two, would hit the ground first. Next, we got two items in both hands and dropped them at the exact same time from the same height. We recorded whichever item hit the ground first. Some of us thought the items that hit the ground first were the heaviest ones. Others thought it was because of the surface area. We are going to investigate more and find out the answer.
Today we did some shared writing about the gravity experiment we did on Monday. We are learning about different sentence types so we highlighted our sentences different colours. Simple sentences are yellow, compound sentences are green and complex sentences are blue.
Here is a video of our gravity experiment too.
Check out our science experiment!Yesterday, Kea did a science experiment creating cave stalactites and stalagmites to understand how stalactites continue growing through a chemical reaction (a tapering structure hanging like an icicle from the roof of a cave, formed of calcium salts deposited by dripping water)Some groups experimented using baking soda and others used Epsom salts. My group used baking soda and our hypothesis is that we think crystals will grow off the wool.
First, we had to add two heaped tablespoons of baking soda or Epsom
salts to hot water. We watched it fizzle and dissolve.
Next, we needed to stir it to dissolve it. This created a concentrated solution. This made it bubble like a bubble bath!
Afterward, we submerged a piece of twisted wool or paper towel into the solution. Then we placed each end of the wool/paper towel into our solutions and placed a piece of cardboard in between, hanging the wool above the cardboard.
We can't wait to see what's happened tomorrow morning and throughout the week! I wonder if our hypothesis was correct or not?
On Friday we got to come dressed in our sport house colours. These are blue, green, orange or yellow. Even the teachers dress up too! We were meant to have a fun sports afternoon but because of the weather we had a disco instead, which was just as fun! Check us out...
Check out these awesome blog posts to find out about what we did on our trip to Sky City:
http://wpstalitaf.blogspot.com/
https://wpsbelindaf.blogspot.com/
https://wpselijahy.blogspot.com/
Hi everyone
We are having fun in our digital bubble attending google meets every day and learning from each other. Check out these awesome videos to learn how to make bubbles!
Kia ora e te whanau,
We have worked hard to create environments in our learning hub. We have a fale where we meet each morning, waka rooms where we do our workshops and an island - a space for reflection. Check out how we show the Wesley Way in each of these areas!
Fri 17th Feb
Kia ora whanau,
