Science Journey

Me and Zane built a boat in science using rubber bands to power our boat, Lucas N let us borrow some of his hard blue polystyrene, it was really good because it floated in water and it didn't fall apart so we started doing our plan. We had a thought that we could have three motors and a flag with deck chairs and a table. The blue polystyrene was very hard so it was difficult to cut with a craft knife so it took a while to get it cut out, when the last hole was getting cut out it snapped and when we were trying to fix it we came across a problem we covered up one of the little holes that we needed to put the rubber band through then the whole thing fell of and then there was no way to fix it so we had to rip some of the stuff off the we tried something different we used popsicles to make a rectangle for the motor then I attached it to the polystyrene while zane was making the propeller. Zane was making a flag for our boat so we could see which one was ours. We then started to make deck chairs and the table for the lego people that I brought as me and Zane. Once we finished the chairs we started to paint the boat, I drew a shark face on the front and flames on the side and we also painted red on the back and blue on the front and we also called the boat "AZ Titan" and we put our name on the side. and that was our Journey until the race...

Sphero

Before Lockdown in science we coded a sphero and we send it zooming around the class, we also learn to drive it but it's pretty hard because it went the opposite way. I thought it was hard to code because it's different to scratch because it had different blocks. I found it easy to connect to the robots, I also had a turn coding it in bubble school. Check it out here → Sphero

100 Meter Sprint

With Mr Barclay we wrote a narrative about a one hundred meter sprint in the Olympics, first I had trouble deciding what to write but when I got on a roll and it was easier to write. It was pretty easy to not get distracted while writing and I just found it fun to write about the topic. When I get home I'll have to put some mote in so you can listen to it.

Hot Number Challenge

Today I did this Hot Number Challenge, at first I got confused about how to do it, I thought you had to add  the numbers up to make the answer, but you only needed to use the numbers like 35 instead of 3+5. Do you think I did everything right comment if I did.

Lockdown Colouring

Today I finished a piece of colouring in that we could do at school, I found it relaxing to colour something during mindfulness and more throughout the day. I didn't find it challenging to put colour down because I just put it down in patterns. I really liked shading two and two together to make different colours, I think it brings out a tropical feel. What do you think I should have done differently?

Pop Art

today me and Carter went back in time and got our old pop arts and put them all in one slide. I found it hard to find the google drawings because I forgot what they were called. I enjoyed looking for backgrounds because they look so cool.

Homemade Cheese Burgers

Today we we were writing a descriptive piece of writing about our favorite food and I wrote about my Dads homemade cheese burgers. At first I found it hard to choose something to write about because I have heaps of favorite foods, but when I chose burgers it was heaps easier.

Homemade Cheese Burgers

"Guess what we are having tonight for dinner Archie" Dad said. "What?" I replied. "Your favourite... burgers!" Dad said. "Yippy! When is it going to be ready?" I asked. "In about another 15 more minutes"  Dad.

 15 minutes later… "Here you go, enjoy," said Dad. Whoa that looks delicious I thought, and I was right because as soon as I took a bite, flavour exploded in my mouth, I could taste the bright red tomatoes, melted cheese and the perfectly cooked meat patty.

 Once I had finished I was full of delicious flavours swirling inside of me.  When Dad asked if I wanted pudding, I said "no thanks!"

Olympic

In reading this week we split into groups of four to chose a sport. My group chose soccer because most of us play it and we all know something about it. I found it challenging to find information about soccer because there were not too many sites.

Lemon Battery

In science today we made lemon batteries we made a small speck light but we needed a more supplies to make the light work properly. when we tested the vaults on the lemons it went right up to the '50s and then came back down a little bit into the '30's but for one reason the light still didn't work. We found it challenging to put the alligator clips in the right order but when we did the light worked a little bit better.

Check this link out to see more https://youtu.be/WNx-bwlTATI

Tokyo Olympic Acrostic Poem

Today we created a acrostic poem about the tokyo olympics. I found it challenging to find words and sentences to go with the letters. I enjoyed finding words and realising they wouldn't go with the letter. It wasn't very challenging when it came to putting the word art in.

Olympic values medals

with some friends during week 1-2 we made 3 Olympic medals representing the Olympic values - first/excellence second/respect third/friendship. The most challenging sing to do was the polyline the the medals and to decide what details to put on them. before we did this we learnt about the Olympic values wich where Excellence, Respect and Friendship. to improve next time I'll make a more detailed podium. Should we add a background? 

The Egg Drop

In science today we learnt about the Egg Drop, what is wind but you have : a cup, plate, cardboard toilet roll and an egg. Fill the cup with water then put the plate over the cup and then on top of the plate put the toilet roll and the egg on the very top.

Hit the plate but don't apply to much force when you hit it or the egg will go flying across the room, but if you do it right the egg should fall into the water.

How it works - Newton's First Law, once the egg was moving, it didn't want to stop. The container of water interrupted the egg's fall, providing a safe place for the egg to stop moving so you could recover it unbroken. The gravity-pushed egg caused the water to splash out.

https://youtu.be/6gzCeXDhUAA

M&M Stacking

We were learning to stack M&Ms to break the world record of 5 M&Ms but no one could only vinny and tyran could get 3.

I found it hard to find the right M&Ms to stack with. 

I found it easy to have fun getting 2 and watching it fall over when I try to get 3.

Next time i will get a high score of 3-4 or maybe a 6 M&Ms.

The Coin Drop

An object at rest stays at rest and object in motion stays in motion with same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced/outside force. The law of inertia and gravity work on the coins, the law states that an object at rest will stay at rest unless an opposing force is acted upon it. 

Look here to see more : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq1Whusk8No

Natural Disaster Survival Kit

We were learning to make a survival kit for a natural disaster to help people survive the disaster and its dangers.

I found it easy to make the first aid kit with the shapes and that's the same with radio and I also liked doing all the word art.

I found it hard to polyline the torch for some reason because I just couldn't get it right.

Next time I will add more stuff so you have a better chance of surviving the natural disaster you come up against.

Cold Air Balloon

We were Learning to make a cold air balloon, to make it all we needed to do was get a table spoon of baking soda and put it into the balloon and put a half a cup of vinegar into the bottle and carefully fit the balloon over the neck of the bottle and let the baking soda fall into the vinegar and then watch the balloon inflate.

I found it easy to understand the science behind the experiment.

I found it hard to wait to the next time we do the experiment because we are going to try blow the balloon up!!!

Next time I will try do it at home and at some friends houses as well.

here's a link to check the pro's cold air balloon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIPSlXTnioQ

How it works, when vinegar and baking soda mix, an endothermic reaction occurs. This produces carbon dioxide which inflates the balloon. The endothermic chemical reaction will also lower the temperature in the area surrounding the vinegar and baking soda so significantly that you will be able to easily notice the change in temperature.

Balloon Rocket

We were learning to make a balloon rocket to fly down a piece of string.

I found it easy to tape the balloon onto the string fly to the other person.

I found it hard to hold the end of the string because it keeps on slipping out of my hand.

Next time I will try doing it with a different type of balloon or I could do a different type of string.

How it works, our rocket blast balloon demonstrates Newton’s Third Law of Motion: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When we release the balloon, the pressurized air in the balloon pushes against the air around the balloon sending it in the opposite direction down the string.

Should Or SHouldn't We Be Prepared For A Natural Disaster

 We were learning to write a piece of persuasive writing about, "is it important to be prepared for a natural disaster."

I found it easy to find the facts to help me to structure my writing because our teacher linked some sites that we could use, we could also find our information ourself.

I found it hard to find the right words to use to describe my reasons about my piece of writing.

Next time I will try use more connectives to improve my writing skills.

Milk Explosion

 we were learning to create a explosion of colour in milk, if you want to have a try this experiment check out this link   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T3C-0-Djas

I found it easy to push lightly down with this soap on the cotton bud down on the milk to make the colours spread out.

I found it hard to not spill the milk onto the carpet so it didn't stain.

next time I will use a different type of milk and see if it has the same reaction.

What happened was, Milk is mostly water, but it also contains vitamins, minerals, proteins, and tiny droplets of fat suspended in solution. Fats and proteins are sensitive to changes in the surrounding solution (the milk).

Volcano Eruption Animation

we were learning to create a animation about a volcanic eruption, I used polyline for drawing everything except the clouds because I used shapes instead.

I found it hard to make the fire coming out of the volcano because it always had a line through the middle so that was to hard to fix.

I found it easy to make the volcano and the lines to make it better.

next time I will make a shield volcano and the eruption will be different. 

Lava Lamps

our task was to make lava lamps using water, oil, food colouring and pills it looked super cool with the bubbles floating up and up, the light made It glow and it was even more amazing.

The science behind it : the oil stays above the water because the oil is lighter than the water or, more specifically, less dense than water. The oil and water do not mix because of something called “intermolecular polarity.” Molecular polarity basically means that water molecules are attracted to other water molecules. They get along fine, and can loosely bond together (drops.) This is similar to magnets that are attracted to each other. Oil molecules are attracted to other oil molecules, they get along fine as well. But the structures of the two molecules do not allow them to bond together.

Bath Bombs

We were learning to make a bath bomb for Mother's Day with was good because then we didn't need to go shopping and it would mean they would get more for Mothers Day.

I found it easy to combined the two colours together. It was also very cool watching the colours merging together.

I found it hard to make the colours to come out so you can see them.

Next time I will make it with different colors and try it with different salts.

I haven't used my one yet but Ms bava tried her one and it started to fizz and the reason is bath bomb comes in contact with water, the baking soda and citric acid react to make carbon dioxide bubbles. This is an acid–base reaction, where baking soda (also called sodium bicarbonate) is a weak base and citric acid is a weak acid.

Logo About Me

 We were learning to create a logo with mote to show what we think about ourselves and our hobbies.

I found it easy to polyline the images and colouring them because it's really fun to polyline and I like coloring because you have a lot of colours to choose from.

I found it hard to install the mote because classroom is talking a bit and so I went outside to do it.

I enjoyed looking at my friends so I could get an idea then ask them if I could borrow that idea and then put it into my slide.

Next time I will add more things to express myself more and make it more detailed.

Camp Kaitawa Animation

We were learning to create an animation about camp kaitawa and answer some questions about it but it couldn't be to informative because if the year 5's saw it camp wouldn't be as fun.

I found it hard to choose what to do for the animation so I settled on kayaking, I chose the part when Mr Barclay was pushing us down the blue pontoon into the lake.

I found it easy to polyline the kayak and the me on the kayak and that was easy because I like doing polyline and this is my third year using it.

I enjoyed working out with my friends what the best part of camp was, here are mine : Kayaking, Obstacle course and going to the caves.

Next time I will write twice as much and give more rich words. I might try to make the paddle move.

Sunflower

We were learning to write a environmental poem about sunflowers and then publish it into slides and posting it to our blog.

I found it easy to chose the rich words from looking at sunflower that Mrs Bava brought in to show us.

I found it hard to choose what sort of font, colour and size that suited the background.

I enjoyed looking at the sunflowers that Mrs Bava brought in from her garden to help us with rich words. 

Next time I will use more rich words and might even add some mote (audio). 

PB4L Logo

I was learning about how to insert a mote into a google slide and how logos represent jobs, businesses ect.

I found it hard to find the words to explain what the logo is about, because there is a lot of words to explain what friendship means and what it is all about.

I found it easy to create the people holding hands with curved lines and shapes.

I really enjoyed deciding what to do as my logo and I have a lot of friends so I chose to do something about friendship.

Next time I will add more detail to my mote and I might add two if I need to.

Triathlon

We were learning about writing a recount about the tryathlon that we had at Churchill Park. I didn't do it because I had a injured foot.

I found it easy to publish my writing into slides and find images to show what part of the triathlon the paragraph is talking about. 

I found it challenging to write all of the paragraphs in one writing session, and I wanted to do both team and individual.

Next time I will add more rich words and take out the 'boring' words to make it more interesting.