The students have been designing CO2 car designs and researching different shapes and their effects on speed. They are looking forward to building the CO2 cars. In their garden class, the students have been learning about different plant families and experimenting with new foods. Their goal is to try any food they make before commenting on the taste. The students have started doing athletics and are practicing techniques to compete in inter-school athletics meets. They are excited to do athletics at the Massey track.

1. Midnight Board
Report
Week 4, Term 4, 2010
Saturday, 6 November 2010

2. CO2 Cars
At the moment we have been designing our CO2
car designs. We have had to choose size,
shape, colour and patterns. We have also been
searching on the internet to look at the designs
and which shapes go faster. Aerodynamic shape
and lightweight design are key to speed! It has
been really cool looking at these videos on
YouTube of CO2 cars racing! We even got to
see a CO2 car race through a a ring of fire!
We can’t wait until the kits come and we get
to start creating our CO2 designs!
Saturday, 6 November 2010

3. Seed 2 Table
This term we have been experimenting with new foods and
flavours. We have been learning about the different
families of the plants we have in our school garden!
One of the families we have been learning about is the
Umbelliferae family some of the vegetables/plants in this
family is the carrot, parsley, angelica, dill and hemlock.
For us our goals are to try all of the food we make
before making a comment about the taste of it! For most
of us this has been an easy goal but for others it is
quite challenging! We can’t wait to learn more about
plants and science and make food at seed 2 table!
Saturday, 6 November 2010

4. Athletics
We have started doing athletics this
has been really fun and challenging.
When we are doing athletics we are
looking for techniques to help us get
to the inter-school athletics! We are
really happy that we are going to be
doing athletics at the Massey track. We
can’t wait to do athletics!
Saturday, 6 November 2010

5. Character Sketch
As you may know we are
going to be doing character
battles and so we have been
making character sketches.
We had to use a person that
we knew a lot about and who
we could write about. Then
we thought about their
personality and what they like
to do. After we did that we
had to put all of that on to
the trading card .
Saturday, 6 November 2010

6. P4C With Suzanne
At p4c we have been given a question by Suzanne
about science. We would get into a circle on the the
mat and talk about the question. We would have to
discuss the question for example one of the
questions were, What is science? That discussion
went on for ages because people weren’t elaborating
their best but now that we have done P4C more the
conversations don’t last as long because people are
elaborating really well which means people
understand their point of view better! Everyone had
to participate so Jacqui made sure everyone said
something in the conversation!
Saturday, 6 November 2010