Let's get creating

During reading and writing last week we looked at how to read and write instructions. Some of us wrote instructions about how to make shoes to walk in, others wrote about a flying machines for aliens to fly and others discovered how to make a double waka. It was great! To complete our work we then followed our own instructions or the instructions of others to make something. Here is a look what we were doing.

Let's Experiment!

For Topic we are part of an interchange with some of of the other classes in the Middle Syndicate. So far we have conducted experiments that taught us about flowing lava. We discovered that the correct term for the thickness of a liquid is viscosity.  (I know cool right!) We also discussed how temperature has an effect on substances, turning something that is solid such as rock into something that is a liquid -lava. We were very interested and the discussion was fabulous! Here are some photos to show what we were doing.

 Some of us may or may not have tasted the margarine.........;-) 

Bit of a big update....so much has happened!

Dr. Chris Gomez  

Dr.Chris Gomez - Canterbury University
We were lucky enough to have volcanologist Dr. Chris Gomez come and speak to the middle syndicate about his job and many adventures he has had whilst studying volcanoes! 

Here are some pictures from his talk - we also had many questions to ask him. We came away with so much information about Volcanoes!