Visitors+and+Trips

||  || This morning (7/9/11) room Kauri Syndicate walked down to Kuranui College to have a lesson in the science lab. Room 14 went down first, a teacher named Mr. Clausen taught us. We did an experiment to see what would dissolve faster, a whole Quick-Eze, a Quick-Eze cut into quarters or a Quick-Eze tablet crushed into powder. First Mr. Clausen demonstrated what we had to do, then we filled out a sheet about variables, hypothesis, and drew diagrams. Then we went in partners, I was with Jimena and we had to do the experiment ourselves and record the time each one took to dissolve. We had a ice cream container filled with water, filled a measuring cylinder with acid and put a tablet inside another tube container. Then we put the measuring cylinder filled with water inside the ice cream container, and ran a tube from inside the cylinder into the smaller cylinder filled with acid. Both cylinders were bubbling and the one with water was emptying into ice cream container.The whole tablet took the longest at 1.54 minutes. Then the one chopped into quarters took 1.24 minutes and the one crushed into powder took only 14 seconds. We then wrote a conclusion and made a graph of the times. An American lady named Stephanie Bowman came to Greytown school on 14th March to talk to Kauri syndicate about the Tuna eel and how it was almost extinct. The tuna eel is a type of eel that is native to New Zealand and is as threatened as the Kiwi. She read us a story that she wrote called Velvet and Elvis about a 101 year old mother eel's journey to Tonga to lay her eggs and then her baby's seven year struggle to make its way back to New Zealand freshwater overcoming many obstacles that are endangering the Tuna eels like Dams, fishing and pollution. She shared lots of interesting facts and stories to us about the Tuna eels A.K.A the long finned eel. She then showed us some of the tapestry with an eel on it that people all over New Zealand have been working putting different fish and sea creatures on to make it long enough to wrap around the bee hive. And our syndicate will me sewing on lots of different things that live in the ocean and in NZ freshwater.
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On April 13 our class started our piece of eel tapestry, we went with partner to make our own little sea creature to sew on. Savannah and I made a puffer fish.

Kevin from the Wairarapa Fire Service

Today (June 7th) we had a visitor come to our school to talk to students about fire safety. He told us about the importance of smoke alarms, emergency escape plans and what firefighters do. I learned that you can't smell when you are sleeping and that's why you need smoke alarms, to wake you up when there is a fire. I also learned how to escape if you live in a two story house. I learned about what firefighters do and that you have to work hard and finish school to become a firefighter because you need to be good at maths and english.