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Wednesday, 14 October 2015

PAGE VIEW CHALLENGE!

In the last 3 weeks of term 3, a challenge was set to Room 13. The challenge was to get the most page views on our blogs. We learnt that if blogs are posted to regularly and have quality blog posts the number of page views will rise. 

We had 3 students from Room 13 achieve more than 1,000 page views!

In third place was: Tulei (with 1,340 page views). You can check out her blog by clicking here.

In second place was: Meleane (with 1,532 page views). You can check out all her blog posts by clicking here.

and in first place waswith a mega 1,620 page views was... SIAOSI!! You can check out his blog by clicking here.

Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Science with Sally - Term 4

Today Sally visited us again and taught us about wastewater. Wastewater is water that we use in our house. For example, toilet water, shower water, water that we use when we brush our teeth, washing machine water and water from the sink after washing the dishes or our hands.

Once the wastewater leaves our house it goes down the sewerage pipes to the sewerage treatment plant in Mangere. The water gets filtered and cleaned, before it makes its way back to the ocean.


Then we did an experiment using fresh water and salt water. 


In the first cup we had fresh water. In the second cup we had one teaspoon of salt water. In the third cup we had 2 teaspoons of salt water.



Then we had to add food colouring. We added yellow to the first cup, red to the second cup, and blue to the third cup. When we added the blue food colouring we noticed that the colour sat on the top of the water. 


We then mixed the food colouring in the water. 




Then we tried used a plastic tube to pick up all 3 colours. We tried to get all 3 colours in the tube. We did yellow first, then red, and blue last.



 
Here is Sione & Joshua with their plastic tubes. Both of them managed to make a rainbow in their tubes. 


         
Some of us even managed to make green!


What did you learn from today's science lesson with Sally?  
(Post your comments below!)