How To Make A Wind Vane

You need:

• a ball of clay a little bit bigger than a ping-pong ball.
• 2 paper plates
• a pencil with a rubber on top
• 1 pin
• a straw
• a triangle shaped piece of card
• a 5 sided shape (like a rectangle with 2 small triangles cut off the end).
• glue
• black pen
• coloured pens
• sellotape
• ruler

What To Do:

1.  Sellotape the two pieces of card to either end of a straw.
2. Measure the straw and mark the halfway point.
3. Stick the pin through the straw into the rubber at the end of the pencil.  (Watch out!  Don't push the pin too hard!)
4. Sharpen your pencil.
5. Stick the pencil through the middle of one plate, and into the ball of clay.
6. Stick the clay onto the other plate.
7. Glue the sides of paper plates together.
8. Decorate the plates.
9. Mark in N, S, E and W around your plate.
10. Take it outside into the wind, and see what happens!

We found different things happened with different wind vanes.

We hope your vane works well and shows the wind well!

from SM and HD

Wind Turbine

Last week Room 5 & 6 went to the Brooklyn Wind Turbine for our wind topic.

We used our anemometers to measure the wind speed.

At the school, the wind measured 16-30 degrees Celcius, and at the Wind turbine most of us got about 50-80 degrees Celcius.

 

My pinwheel broke off and I chased it yelling "Come back!"  Ruby laughed!

from LM and DS

chess

Every Friday you can play chess and some Mondays too.


I like Chess because it is one of the oldest games in the world. 


You can learn some special moves like castling.


from L.A.

Mothers Day

Yesterday it was Mothers Day.  I gave her a card out of Lara's barbie cardboard box - it was a field with flowers, and I gave her a bookmark with the same picture.  I like Mother's Day!!

from C.I

Parent teacher conference

Last week me and my dad went to parent teacher conference.  I liked showing my writing about my swimming.


from E.T.

School conference

Last week we had parent  teacher  conferences.   My mum  and  dad  came  and  I  was a  little  bit  shy.

from FF

How to make anzac biscuits

On Friday we made Anzac biscuits and I loved making them. We put coconut in and sugar in too. There was also butter/margerine in there.  


Here's the recipe we used:

• Melt 115g butter and 1.5 tablespoons of golden syrup.
• Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda dissolved in 2 tablespoons of boiling water.
• Mix in:  1 cup of rolled oats, 1 cup of flour, 1 cup of coconut, 1/2 cup of sugar.
• Drop tablespoons of the mixture onto baking paper, and bake until a pale golden colour (about 15 minutes) at 180 C.

from jonathan