Our hovering eggs

In our first experiment we poured fresh water into the cup. Next we gently dropped the egg into the cup but it sank to the bottom of the water. This was because the egg was more dense than the water.

In our second experiment we added salt to the fresh water. This time we dropped the egg in and it floated on top. This was because we added salt to the fresh water which caused the water to become more dense. The egg was less dense than the salty water so it floated on top.

In our last experiment, we poured salty water half way up the cup. Then we put the egg in and it stayed floating. Next we slowly poured in the fresh water. The egg stayed hovering in the middle of the salt water and the fresh water because it was more dense than the fresh water but less dense than the salt water.

Emma Prince

How do you treat others?

What is the moral of this story?

Comic Creations

Room 3 children have been creating their own short comic strips this term. 

1. We learnt about the visual and language features of comics and then used these to create our own short comic strip.

2. We had to come up with a short story that had a beginning, middle and end. We needed to include speech bubbles, thought bubbles, onomatopeia and narrator's boxes to add extra detail to the story.

Here's a sample...

Author:  Alice

Density

We have been studying the concept of density in relation to  floating and sinking. We made a "magic column" with golden syrup, oil and water and then floated different objects in them.  The layers occurred in the cup because the liquids had different densities. The golden syrup was most dense and sunk to the bottom while the oil was the least dense and floated on the top. The objects had different densities also which made them float in various parts of the cup.

In another experiment we had to make an egg hover in the middle of a cup of water. The equipment we were give was 2 eggs, fresh water, salt and 2 cups. 

My Bow And Arrow

By Mika

 I chose to make the bow and arrow because we were doing medieval weapons.I decided to do the bow and arrow because it's my favourite medieval weapon and it looked very tricky.

I made a bow and some arrows with some bamboo wood. I chose that wood because it bends and
it was the right colour. What I did was carve two v shapes in the wood. I did that so the string would not slip and the string could also hold more pressure. Then I tied the string on the wood. the last thing I did on the bow and arrow was tape a handle on and then I secured the strings with tape.

For the arrows I had a stick and some feathers off an old dart. 

From the perspective of a Kumara leaf

The Life Of A Kumara Leaf

It all started with the seed, the seed is the beginning of everything. The seed got planted in the earth, my home. Water. Sun. Nutrients. A plant begins to form and I begin to grow along with my brothers and sisters. Roots dig in to the earth and begin new kumaras, while we stay on top to find things to climb. After all, we are climbers. Life goes on and I begin to wither. I am now only a crisp, brown leaf with a speck of pale green. The roots below have almost finished their job and new leaves are already born. It’s time. I watch from where I have fallen as my forever cared for plant gets picked and harvested. Then the roots the kumaras have formed get eaten. New seeds are planted and new plants begin to form. After that, I get snatched away by the breeze.

By Hadas

The Black Death Investigation

Detective for a day!

Monday 23rd september 2013
Today room three did an investigation on the black death. What we did was Miss Cocks put out evidence boxes, numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. In each box there were things that people in the middle ages thought would cure the black death. Some boxes had food, animals such as chickens and frogs, prayers, church bells,black and yellow bile, phlegm and even whips. Then we got investigation charts that had the box numbers on them, then we wrote what was in the boxes, and wrote how we thought they would cure the black death, and why the middle ages people thought these things would have cured the black death. I thought the cures were very weird  and some were yucky.

By Eleanor and Olivia N

Calendar Art

Room 3s Calender Art

Alice

                      

First, we found a picture of a bird we liked and practiced drawing in in our art books.

When we were happy with our design, we traced it onto good paper. Some of us practiced dying our birds and some of us started practicing our background.With our birds, we had to blend the colours together.Some of us practiced our birds a lot and some of us didn't really need to practice at all. With our background, most of us only did one colour and the rest of us did two. We dyed our backgrounds with sponges and we flicked pure dye with mini paintbrushes. With our backgrounds, most of us bleached them by flicking bleach onto the backgrounds.

By Jessie and Jiayi

Luke

Mishy

Mika

John

Amy

Emma

Olivia T.

Jacob

Michaela

Helna

Jiayi

Olivia M.

Preston

George

Amelia

Jessie

Helina

Hadas

Levi

Hanan

Donna

Darius

Matthew

Buster

Book Week - Dress Up Day

Today was book day. We had to dress up as a book character from one of our favorite books.Some of us dressed up as characters from picture books and some dressed as people dressed from chapter books.Some of the characters were Pippy Long-stockings, Nancy Drew, Little Red Riding Hood, Mary and Happy Feet. After morning tea all the classes lined up for the book parade around the university drive. Every one had such cool costumes so Miss Cocks took pictures of the people that had dressed up in Room 3.

By: Amelia and Jessie O.