Children's Concert at Wellington Botanic Gardens

Some of us were involved with our friends from other classes to put on an item at the Wellington Botanic Gardens Children's Concert today. This is a fund-raising concert for the "Children's Garden" that is being developed at the gardens.

What a stunning Wellington day for it!


Childrens Concert Bot Gardens 2015 from Mrs B on Vimeo.

School Disco 2015!

What a great night out -Everyone looked fantastic! We could have danced the night away....

Conservation Week

It's Conservation Week. A great reason to have a "Green Day' - activities with an environmental theme.
We did paper making in Room 4

Chromatography for Kids

 Felt pens are often mixes of several coloured dyes.


 We separated these combinations of colours through a process called chromatography.

 This is what we did:- We had filter paper strips stuck to a kebab stick, plastic cups, water , and our felt pens (which are water soluble)
We put a couple of different coloured dots near the bottom of our strips of filter paper and placed them in the cups.

We put some water in the bottom of the cups – but only enough to touch the bottom of the filter paper.

We observed the colours moving up the filter and how the colours split up.

 What's Happening? When the liquid creeps up the coffee filter, it dissolves the colouring molecules and splits it into different coloured chemicals. Different colours get carried along faster and farther than others because some colour molecules are bigger and heavier than others. http://www.education.com/activity/article/Color_Science_kindergarten/

Hampton Hill is 50 years old!

Enviro Team this week

We all have a turn at being the 'Enviro team' for a week at our school. This week was our turn!

We tidied up the outside of our plastic bottle greenhouse, planted tomatoes, made seed pottles out of newspaper, sowed pumpkin, sweet pea, and sunflower seeds.












We also weeded the vege garden so it looked really tidy for the 50th celebrations this coming weekend.

Our new Bush Track

A work in progress but huge thanks to everyone who gave up their Saturday morning to come along to a working bee developing a bush track along our "out of bounds" bank.
They made awesome progress - so exciting!

Liquid Lab - Discovery

'Qu' is the sound this week so we had a Liquid Lab!

First we had a dish with oil in it. Then we put drops of coloured water in (using the pipettes). It was fun watching the blobs form - and mixing the colours.

Next we added drops of coloured white vinegar.

Great fizzing happened when we shook baking soda over the top!








And to add more fun, we mixed in some coloured dishwash soap. - A real liquid lab!

Circuits

We've been discovering electric circuits this week. Brain Box sets are a wonderful way to do this. Lots of experimenting and investigating!

And then the following day we used two different types of playdough to make 'squishy circuits'. The Green play dough was made with a lot of salt, giving it low resistance, and the yellow one was made with sugar, giving it high resistance. Here is a website showing you a short TED talk about it.

Recipes here -

Mrs Pearl's "leaving song"

Well, after 21 years, Mrs Pearl has retired! She's finished the year early to spend some time with Mr Pearl travelling and visiting their grown-up daughters in the Northern Hemisphere.
Here are the words to our song we sang to her at her farewell assembly. It is to the tune of the final song of our Major Production.

It's going to be strange without her around the place - Miss her already!