Ella West Visit

Today at P1 we had an amazing author come to school and visited us. Her name is Ella West. She talked to us about her books and how she writes them and what she does. We had asked lots of questions.

Ella west has written 5 books so far. The longest book she has ever made took 3 yrs to make. That's a long time. She told us a funny story but to me it wasn't that funny. She said that she went to the publisher in her country, the publishers gave her the book back and told her to redo the whole entire book again.

Night vision is an amazing book. I haven't read it myself but it seems amazing the way she was talking about it. This book is a heart - thumping thriller that will leave you breathless. This book is about a girl who has a disease which is xp. I don't understand it that much but you can look some of it up.

Rain fall is one of the books i'm looking forward to the most as it seems the most interesting to me. Her and her husband live on a sheep farm near Dunedin after spending many years on the west coast. Rain fall is about a 15 year old girl who needs to get to her basketball match but the police had stopped her.

I mostly enjoyed that she was giving amazing facts about the book without her actually spoiling the book. I haven't read any of her books but I am bound to.

Here is an example of a creative piece of writing:

Long ago in a pine forest there is this little 5 year old girl with, black hair, brown eyes, and an amazing personality. She was with her mother Sandra. Somehow they ended up there they don't have a clue what happened. They heard some noise in the sky, It was a helicopter to help them. They were relived. The rescue crew could not see them, they had to think of a plan. They had an Idea they would shine a torch to the sky. They found them!

Science - Climate Chaos

For Science we have been learning about the water cycle. We have been having a look at different types of changes. So with the changes we used litmus paper which should turn red. With the other bag it will possibly just have condensation.

This is a doc that I used to write up my experiment. Have a look...

Climate Chaos

Written by: 

Title	Litmus paper water cycle	Water Cycle
	Experiment 1	Experiment 2
Purpose	To see what happens with the Litmus paper	To see what happens throughout the condensation
Materials	1x Zip 1x Vivid 2x Strips of double sided tape Half a cup of water 2x drops of food colouring 1x Pair of scissors 1x teaspoon of baking soda 1x strip of Litmus paper	1x Zip lock bag 1x Vivid (Colour of your choice) 2x stripes of double sided tape Half a cup of water 2x drops of blue food colouring 1x pair of Scissors
Steps	Step one: You need to get a long zip lock bag and 1 vivid Step two: Carefully cut 2 strips of double sided tape about 4 cm long Step three You need to draw out a water cycle on the bag. Don’t poke any holes in there Step four: Carefully pour half a cup of water in the bag Step five: Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda. Step six: Add 2 drops of blue food colouring (Don't get any on your clothes or hands) Step seven: Close the bag Step eight: Hang it up on a window where sunlight comes through.	Step one: You need to get a long zip lock bag and 1 vivid Step two: Carefully cut 2 strips of double sided tape about 4 cm long Step three You need to draw out a water cycle on the bag. Don’t poke any holes in there Step four: Carefully pour half a cup of water in the bag Step five: Add 2 drops of blue food colouring (Don't get any on your clothes or hands) Step six: Close the bag Step seven: Hang it up on a window where sunlight comes through
Conclusion	What I think the outcome is: I think that the outcome is that the litmus paper will turn a different colour	What I think the outcome is: I think that the outcome is that the bag will have condensation in the bag.

What would your outcome be if you had this experiment?

Findings:

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	2	3
Amount of Water	2	3
Acidity	1	3

1.  This one has not got the litmus paper 
2. And the cycle is a bit different to the other 

Second Bag

1. There was litmus paper that had changed colour 
2. This bag had more condinsation from the other

Science - Greenhouse afect

Aim: To look at climate change and the greenhouse affect

Aim: To see how hot it could get with a heat lamp

Materials

1. 1 plastic bottle
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 1 Thermometer
5. 100 ml water
6. 1 rubber band

Procedure:

1. Come and collect all of the materials from Mr Palmer.
2. Setting up the lights, bottles, thermometers and bungs.
3. Mr Palmer adds the baking soda mix along with 100ml of water.
4.  Wait for 5 minutes and start recording the temperature.

Variables:

All water added to the bottles was from the classroom tap

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18.c	18.c
5	25.c	18.c
10	26.c	25.c
15	No Recording.	No Recording.
20	No Recording.	No Recording.
25	No Recording.	No Recording.
30	No Recording.	No Recording.
35	No Recording.	No Recording.
40	28.c	38.c

Conclusion:

The normal bottle of water didn't get as hot as the CO2 water. This is just the same as climate change. I also found this experiment interesting.

Science - Different Climate Changes

Today we have been looking at the ranking of climate change. With the climate change we had 6 different  paragraphs for different climate changes.

Cows: Cows create a greenhouse gas called methane when they burp and fart.
Transportation: Most cars need gas or diesel to work.
Electricity: Electricity is a form of energy used power almost everything in our homes.
Food: We need food to survive, but it creates a lot of pollution.
Landfill: Our landfills are growing and using up more healthy land.
Factories: Making cloths, cars, electronics, and processed foods creates a lot of pollution.

CIP

Today for CIP we are finishing off what we have done last week. We also got a message from Anton encouraging us with our community impact projects. I was shocked as one of the All Blacks players had some time to actually send through a video. Mrs Shehata was amazed with what Anton said. To be honest the whole class was amazed. This is the clip that Anton sent...

Here is mine and Asenas card....

Art = StoryBoard

Today we have been doing some story boarding. Here are some facts...

In our group we have

Kristille

Asena

Mikayla

Sita and 

Shania

I am the Director, Kristille is the drawer and Asena is the camera girl. The story is about Kindness from Manakiitanga. Asena and Sita joined our group today so we are now a group of 6 which is perfectly fine. Adding another 2 people shows manakiitanga. Here is a photo of our story board and the progress... 

Maths Interchange DLO

This week we have been learning to round decimal numbers. For me this was quit easy as I finished all of my activities on Monday and I just had to make a DLO. What type of DLO usage did I use?
Do you think I used Piktochart like I usually do? If you are thinking that your wrong I made a screencastify with my friends (Bailey and Tahnesha). They helped me record this video and Bailey was carrying on with her own work and Tahnesha was in the video helping me. Have a look at this screencastity.....