Science Pendulum Art Report

Title: Pendulum Art   By: Bridget, Tara, Mary & Elsie 

Aim/Hypothesis: We thought that it would look like how it looked on the video. We also thought that it would be easy and we would get it first try.

Method: First we got 2 chairs and then we put a 1 meter ruler and tied it  to the 2 chairs after that we got some string and a paper cup and tied that to the 1 meter ruler. We put a hole in the bottom of the cup so the paint would come out then we mixed pink and blue in the cup with someone holding a piece of paper at the bottom of the cup so the paint wouldn't come out. We had some newspaper at the bottom of the the good paper that we were going to use. After that then we swung the cup on to the paper and it turned out like this.  

Results:  On our first attempt the cup was a foot away from the ground.  It was quite messy and unorganized, the string was every and didn’t end up like the ones in the videos.  Once we let go of the string to let it swing and do it’s thing, it just ended up doing blotches of polka dots.  It wasn’t flowing properly and it ended up looking like a mess.  

Our second attempt was a little bit better, but wasn’t what we wanted.  It had the same problem as our last attempt, polka dot blotches and no improvement.  

For our third attempt we decided to change the pendulum by sticking a pencil through the cup and adding a bigger hole.  We secured the string to the ruler and it seemed to work wonders. We aced it at the third attempt. 

Our original idea was to keep it lower to the ground, but one of our team mates told me to put it up higher,  couldn’t do anything else but agree because that’s what makes a team. At least we tried different approaches.   

Conclusion: Overall in the end it turned looking pretty cool. It took a couple of tries to get it right but we got it in the end and it worked.  Next time to make it successful we should do the same process as third attempt, but make the hole slightly smaller.  

Mining West Coast History

Job Interview: Jarred Klempel

Recently we have been interviewing a good amount of people and asked them about their job history etc.  We had the same questions laid out for all our guests, we added in some different questions too. With every person we interviewed there was a different answer.  Today we interviewed Jarred Klempel ( Zak & Cameron's Dad ) he gave us full answers to our questions.  He intrigued me because he went into depth with his job history.  He mentioned all of his jobs and the two that stood out the most were the air force job and when he worked on the Bumble & Friends Show where he had to blink the eye of a puppet fish. 

 

Fair trade Learning

For our topic this term we have been delving deep into Fair Trade and what it's about.   Fair trade doesn't support companies that have child labour.  Fair Trade helps exporters, for instance if someone provided coffee beans for The Fair Trade Company then Fair Trade gives them a fair amount of money.   Sometimes Fair Trade build schools for children who need education, they also provide fresh water and food.  For our fair trade topic we have each been assigned to a sack.  We had the option if we wanted to be in groups or not, I decided to partner up with Elsie to create a poem.  Our stages throughout the process went like this: First we came up with a poem that was meaningful, then we came up with designs for the sacks, our third stage was to edit everything and see if there were any mistakes.  Our final stage was to get creating.  We laid out pieces of newspaper onto the lino in the corridor  because there wasn't enough space in the classroom.  We then dipped our cotton buds into the cup with Indian ink and carefully dabbed our way through the sack.  The process didn't take that long to complete, but we were still very careful with our work and it turned out looking really good in the end.  Overall I think that the fair trade topic was fun, next term for the class topic my suggestion is to either do an art inquiry or a music inquiry where you have to play a song and figure out the meaning behind it, for the art inquiry we could choose an artwork to get inspired by and make our "re-creation" or something that looks similar. 

Raindrops Poem

The Story Of Shirley's Car

The Ghost Town: Waiuta

The Ghost Town: Waiuta

By: Mary Duran

Waiuta is a designated ghost town that was once a place where men sacrificed their lives while gold mining.  Waiuta is located specifically near Ikamatua, up the Snowy River , South of Reefton, West Coast of the South Island.  Waiuta is famously known for the gold mining industry which was founded in 1905 till 1951

 

Waiuta’s History:

The first mine shaft called Blackwater Shaft was first operated in 1908 and was 563m in depth.   
The mine was then extended in 1926, the first mineshaft named Blackwater North claim was
renamed Prohibition.  The Prohibition Shaft took over later on in 1938 and incredibly reached
879m in depth.  The mine eventually produced almost 21,262,142 grams of gold.  
Over the time more workers began to settle in the area.

What Waiuta is Today:

 Today Waiuta is a historic ghost town for tourists to come upon and learn about what Waiuta once was.  There is still surprisingly a few buildings left that include  the former police station, three cottages and an old barber shop.  There is a lodge for anyone to stay for as long as they want.  Waiuta is also one of NZ’s most popular ghost towns, because of its successful gold mine.

  Waiuta, a gold mining town since 1905, but is now an abandoned ghost town and a great tourist attraction with only a few of the original buildings.  

Protected: The Important of Integrity

Hansel&Gretel

Rapunzel Sentence

Sentence:  She scolded him fiercely for daring to enter and steal from her garden

My Version:  The cold mysterious rotten smell filled the warm air.  As the dead Autumn leaves crunched beneath his feet his eyes finally met with the mysterious ‘creature’.  Little did he know that it wasn’t a creature, it was indeed the owner. She scolded at him as if he had killed one of her loved ones.  Their neighbour had an old wrinkled face that terrified all of the villagers.

Little Red Riding Hood

Little pigs gruesome version

Every two weeks our teacher reads us a fairy tale, then the next day he reads us the original and gruesome story.  After he had read both we have to write our own gruesome version, here is my version: Hope you enjoy

Plot line

 I was trying to achieve to make a plot line for the 3 little pigs in 10 minutes. 

Hundreds drown in Eastland

Quick write

In class our teacher puts a picture or video up and we have to write about it.  We also have the word of the day everyday and we have to add that in the quick write.  Here is one of my quick writes.

Fungi explanation

Prebiotics and probiotics

How to annoy your babysitter steps: MD&ER

How to annoy and get rid of your babysitter video MD&ER

Potato Hashies Recipe