Science!

This week we have been learning about the different sugar content in different food. We learnt that there is sugar in foods like cake and fizzy drink, but also in milk and fruit!

The sugar in a cake is called sucrose, the sugar in fruit is called fructose and the sugar in milk is called lactose.

Then we looked at some different types of food to see how much sugar in them. We found that there is quite a lot of sugar in lots of foods! We didn't realise how much sugar would be in juice either,
here are some labels we found.

A new planet?

Today in literacy we have been learning about the goldilocks zone. This is an area in space where planets are at the right temperature to sustain life.

Check out what Aaliyah learnt below:

         

Pauline pondered whether we should move to a new planet:

Moving to another planet is a big risk for us humans to take. There have been other planets that have water on it and looks promising to live on, but however, if we were to move to another planet there would be many consequences. Gliese 581g was the first earth-like planet to be found orbiting its star.

See her full argument here.

Do you think we will ever move to another planet in the goldilocks zone? Let us know in the comments.

Welcome to Term 2!

Today term two officially started for Pt England School. It is quite surreal to be kicking off a term from our living rooms, but we have already made a fantastic start.

We kicked off our day with a team five assembly lead by Mrs Tele'a, where we introduced our topic for the term 'We are the World'. We are going to be looking at the different spheres of the earth - the lithosphere (land), hydrosphere (water), atmosphere (air) and biosphere (living creatures).

Room 4 literacy got straight into this by reading a short text about the structure of the earth, check out what Laolao created:

                 

We look forward to starting our new inquiry and continuing our learning online.

Genomics Hui Day

Wow what an amazing day we have all had! Students from Glen Innes Primary and Glenbrae came to visit us this morning so we could share our Genomics learning with one another and compete for prizes!

We started with a mihi, karakia and waiata to set up the day, before we got split up into groups. There were students from each school in all of the groups.

After introducing ourselves it was time to start talking about Genomics! Every student presented one aspect of their learning to their group. We were really proud of our students as everyone had the courage to share.

Then finally we had a competition, similar to mathletics. We had to answer a science question and then run to the panel to check if it was correct before moving on to the next question. It was great seeing everyone working together to get the answers.

We would like to thank Jannie and Thierry for organising such a fantastic day!

🐙 Octopus Facts by Makayla & Amelia

               

This week Room 4 have been learning about Octopus! To start off, we all sat down on the mat and shared what we already knew or learned about the octopus. We then watched a video that showed us some key information about octopus, like how they camouflage. We definitely picked up a lot of facts and even though we knew some already the video allowed us to look into it in more depth.Amelia and Makayla then partnered up to make this presentation. They used all the facts that they learnt from the videos and from the web (see the links in their presentation).

Class Pet

As we are studying living organisms for our inquiry, we decided to get some class pets: Aqua Dragons. This morning we learnt that their eggs were able to lie dormant (a bit like hibernating) in a state called diapose, until they come into contact with water. This means that are able to survive through hard times outside of their habitat!

This morning we hatched the eggs for the first time, so there is not much to see at the moment, but very soon we will have a full tank of Aqua Dragons! We are going to observe them at each stage of their life cycle.