It is now term 3 and Aroha 6 is back into it again having fun learning alongside each other. Some of our highlight this week was participating in activities in health and physical education. Delivered by the awesome coaches Eric and Kelly from the Counties Manukau Sport Fundamental Movement skills team... The focus this week was based on balancing on one foot, using your fine and gross motor skills to help develop resilience and a sense of personal and social responsibility along with contributing to your peers. Aroha 6 clearly demonstrated that, we all enjoyed playing a lot of fun games such as getting into two teams and taking turns on who can flip the cones over the fastest followed by hopping on one foot and playing the hand game similar to rock paper scissors while trying to jump on the round coloured spots all the way to the other side. " Ka rawe to mahi Tamariki ma!"
Well done Kiran for receiving our PRIDE Participation award at our school assembly. Keep it up !
Thank you Aroha 6 whanau for supporting our Rowandale School Disco!
Thank you for your golden coin donation and buying our delicious drinks and simply scrumptious popcorn.
We sure had fun dressed up in our party clothes with our friends and lining up to get our face painted along with wearing glow in the dark arm bands while grooving to the funky music.
In result of all this successful event Rowandale school fundraised $1104.30c
Wahoo!!! Enjoy our captured moments with our Disco dancers!!!
Kia ora koutou, Talofa lava Aroha 6 family and friends, this term we have had so much fun exploring new things such as learning the importance of celebrating Matariki, the Māori New year and the reason behind it. This was demonstrated across the curriculum areas such as reading, writing and mathematics. We just couldn't get enough from reading the big book Matariki breakfast, along with learning the names of the nine stars and creating our very own Matariki star using ice block sticks and blue tack... Wahoo!!!
Thank you Aroha 8 for hosting our last team assembly for term 2. We had so much fun singing and busting out our jump jamming moves.
Congratulations Lesego and AJ for receiving our PRIDE Empathy and Classroom awards.
Today we learnt how different substances react when they are mixed with each other.
The materials we used for our volcano experiment are simple and can be found in your very own kitchen!
The items we used were:1 plastic cup1 drop of orange / yellow/ red food colouring Half a cup of vinegar 1 table spoon of baking soda
Aroha 6 were very excited to perform this volcano experiment. It was like witnessing a real volcano erupt right before your very eyes!
But this version is much smaller!
Congratulations AROHA 6 you have just created an erupting volcano!
Our discussion around this science experiment was
" What makes it behave that way?" Although there is actually a deeper explanation to that...
In other words, the primary explanation to the chemical reaction we have just experienced is that mixing vinegar, which is acid, and baking soda, which is base, results in the formation of carbon dioxide gas, forcing the contents of the cup to come out of the volcano.
When an acid and a base are mixed together, they react to neutralize each other resulting in production of salt and also in the process, produce carbon dioxide.
In real volcanoes, carbon dioxide is also present when they erupt!
In support of our Mad Science inquiry, Aroha 6 took interest of exploring basic chemistry in which we experimented with canola oil and water and used materials such as test tubes, a drop of food colouring per tube and plastic spoons.
As part of being a Science explorer we learnt to ask questions, form a hypothesis, test our hypothesis, record our hypothesis and come to a conclusion...
In conclusion to our science experience
"Does oil and water mix together?"
The answer is " No!"
Oil and water experiment explanation:
What is happening?
There are a lot of interesting things to note during this science experiment.
Aroha 6 discovered that oil and water do not mix. Even if you shake the test tube the oil will immediately separate from the water as soon as it settles. Oil molecules are attracted to other oil molecules so they stick together. The same goes for water molecules….. so they just don’t mix – they are immiscible.
We also observed the oil always floats on top of the water because the oil has a lower density than water.
This term team Aroha's integrated inquiry plan is based on Mad Science! In support of this we travelled by bus on an excursion to a Science Roadshow situated at Sancta Maria College. This Science Roadshow sure was fun and exciting. Definitely was a new interactive learning experience for all of us. We enjoyed engaging and participating with the live shows, hands on exhibits that enabled our learners to extend their knowledge of the nature of science, technology, engineering and mathematics....
Here are some of our learners voices:
What did you enjoy at the
Science show?
Lesego: "I enjoyed when the water changed colours."
Eliki: "I liked the colourful smoke that exploded."
Aaria-Mei: "I enjoyed lying on the nail bed."
William: "I liked the rocket science experience."
Seti: "I enjoyed watching the green fire."
Kiran: "I liked going to all the different activities."
Ivana:" I liked observing the yellow explosion."
Hyrum: "I liked when the man put the stick in the fire and it turned
green."
Pratik: " I liked the part when the man spun the glass of water around and
it didn’t tip."
Mia: " I enjoyed when the man put wax on the stick and it changed colours."
Josiah: " I liked it when the man showed us about gravity."
What is gravity? Josiah : "It is about one thing is heavy and one thing
is light."
Seira: "I enjoyed playing with different activities."
Grasmer: " I liked when the man put the water in the cup and spun it."
Giana : "I liked going on the bus."
Maisaele: " I liked standing in the tyre and was in the big bubble."
