Kiwi Kids Quiz Results

These are some of the characters on kiwi kids quiz 

This week I got 73% correct.  The ones I got wrong were the ones I wasn't that familiar with.

Weeks Words Reflection

A few students in team 12 have been using weeks words for their spelling testing at the end of the week.  I like using weeks words because you don't have to go up to the teacher to get tested and I also like how you can record your own voice so you can understand the word better.  To tell you guys what we did and what we enjoy about this app we did a fotobabble.  This week I got all my words right.  This app is on team 12's ipad and ipods.

Thursday Experiments

One of our experiments Rm 12 did on Thursday with Mrs Demchy was trying to blow up a balloon using CO2 gas made by baking soda and vinegar.  First of all we got a balloon and a bottle with a small neck so we could put the neck of the balloon around it.  We filled the balloon with baking soda and had the vinegar in the bottle.   Next we went outside and put it together.  It only blew up a little bit but then Mrs Demchy tipped the vinegar into the balloon and it expanded to a full sized balloon.  Most people got to touch it and see how firm or soft it was.  We weren't aloud to squeeze it to much just in case it popped.  We went inside and talked about it.  This experiment was one of 3 successful experiments.

Algebra

For maths we are doing algebra.  Today for algebra we had a problem solving activity involving a shortage of tent pegs.  Here is the problem.

The youth group are having a camp. they needed to put up tents for each team. Usually it takes eight large pegs to hold up each of their tents. This time they have a problem. They are very short on large tent pegs.

Leader: "Find some ways to put up tents that will save pegs" (Talking to the groups).

We had to work with a classmate to find a least three ways to put up ten tents.  Then we had to find out which of the ways used the least amount of pegs.

Katie and Emily made a way that only used 39 pegs but then I came and looked at our layout and suggested that we could take some pegs away and join them to others.  Our second layout came to 36 pegs. The white bits of paper is the tents and the green counters are the pegs.  We had the least amount of pegs in the end and some people got up to 60 pegs altogether.  

Picture one is the first design:                                    Picture two is the second design:     

"Stuck in a Pond" (Brooke)

“Alisa, Can you go and get some eggs with Jessica please”.  Jessica was my best friend.  She was staying with us because her parents had to work.

Together we walked to the chicken coop.  By the coop there is a pond.  I thought I saw a frog in the water.  I looked very close and I fell in.  Jessica quickly pulled her camera out and took a picture.  She then pulled me out of the sludgy pond.  We got the eggs, dashed to the house, handed the eggs to mum and I went to the shower. “Long story” Said Jessica.