Sunday, April 19, 2020
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Week 1 term 2 - Lockdown
Writing
My Favourite Toy
I love to play with Lego. I get a wonderful feeling when I open a new Lego set. I love the challenge when you have to connect each piece together. Different sizes big and small, regular blocks and unique shapes make your imagination come to life. The coolest thing I made was the lego Ninjago set. The explosive cannons went along the sides of the ship. The mast stood tall, making everything cower under its size. The mini spaceship had a vast variety of menacing weapons to deal with the enemies in the air. On the sides of the ship, it has two deadly blades ready to pierce enemy cars. This Ninjago set was my favorite!
Inquiry
I think change is like something took. For example, when you are very good at soccer a change could be that you start trying another sport and become very good at it.
What is Change
Change is when things evolve or become different. For example Bill Gates probably every day he is thinking of something new to put out there in the world. Jeff Bezos started selling books and now he is one of the world's richest people with amazon.
Maths
Reading
King Victor
8 Words to describe a person
Sense of Justice, Kind Hearted, Humble, Strong, Generous, Supportive, Quick and responsive.
3 words about her/him appearance
He is a 78-year-old wrinkled man wearing a colorful Royal mantle. Tall, muscular with a “Royale” style beard. The outstanding Royal crown makes it look very good with splendid regal power.
5 words about their personality
Jovial, Sense of humor, Very protective, Helpful, Thoughtful personality and Assertive.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Christmas poem
Christmas is when Jesus was born.
Holidays is when everyone is happy.
Reindeers help Santa deliver the presents
In the northern hemisphere, Santa makes our presents Stars are across the sky like angels watching over us.
Trees decorated for Christmas.
Merrily everyone singing
Angles sing Christmas chorals along with everyone who is celebrating this holiday.
Santa is the jolly fat man who eats dessert before an actual meal.
Sunday, December 8, 2019
water density
Rainbow Water Density Tower
Aim - To observe how substances with different densities interact
Materials
Glasses - 1 per group
Food colouring (red, blue, green and yellow - you can make purple and orange by combining two colours)
Sugar or Salt (and measuring spoon)
Measuring cup - 1 per colour (you can have 6 colours to work with, or limit it to 4 colours)
Measuring syringes
Water (warm water from a tap or kettle)
Plastic spoons to mix the sugar and food colouring in the water
Pots of water to rinse syringes between each colour
Plastic plates or trays to protect the table from sticky sugar water
Results
The different densities did not mix because they are different layers. When we put different amounts of sugar in each cup the density changed and that's why the colours did not mix.
Explanation
Look at the websites below and also do research of your own - Then write a paragraph explaining ‘the science’ behind the experiment. Why do we see the results that we did?
Saveer & Arhans Result:
Rishi & Aaravs Result:
Ice fishing
Ice Fishing
Aim/Purpose:
To see how salt can affect ice or react with ice
Materials
- Small paper cups, bowl or an ice cube tray
- Glass of water
- String (yarn or kite string works great)
- Small stick
- Salt
Steps/Method:
- Fill the cup or tray up with water and place it in the freezer. You can also use ice cubes from your freezer and skip this step.
- When the water is frozen, remove the ice from the cup or tray.
- Put the ice in the glass or bowl of water. The cube will bob up and down in the water and then float on the top.
- Place one end of the string from the fishing pole on top of the ice cube and sprinkle salt on the ice where the string is touching. Watch as the water melts slightly and refreezes.
- After about 10 seconds, carefully lift the ice cube out of the water with the fishing pole. You caught a fish (ice)!
My results:
Salt - The string stuck really well to the ice and pulled the ice cubes up out of the water
Sugar - The string didn’t stick to the ice cubes and none of them was pulled up out of the water. Some people started to see the ice cubes stick - but it then failed after that.
Flour - THe ice didn’t stick to the string at all
Pepper - The ice didn’t stick to the string at all
More salt than normal - The ice still got picked up by the string
Changing the variables
Don’t wet the string beforehand
Use only a little salt
Using lots of salt
Try to catch the ice using sugar instead of salt
Try to catch the ice using pepper instead of salt
Try to catch the ice using flour instead of salt
Change the time period that you wait before trying to pick up the string.
10 seconds.
Explanation - Why does it work?
When the salt touches the ice it lowers the freezing point making it melt and refreeze, which makes it stick to the fishing rod.
Resources:
Sunday, December 1, 2019
Fresh water water experiment
Water Filter Experiment
Aim/ Purpose -
To filter or clean water using a number of materials
How to clean/filter water - making it clean
Materials -
Sand,
gravel,
activated charcoal,
cotton wool,
plastic bottles cut in half,
bucket of dirty water (can make the water dirty with soil or whatever from outside)
Predictions - What is going to work best? What steps/process and in what order - why?
2nd layer up - gravel - The gravel will grab onto the dirty parts and the clean water will drip off the gravel through the gaps.
Second Layer Up - Charcoal - Second smallest material, can absorb the things not cleared by the bigger materials.
Third Layer Up - Sand - Turns hard when it’s wet - Take all the bigger dirt particles
Top layer - Gravel - All the hugest dirt particles out first.
Method/Steps:
- First, you put 3 cotton balls ate the bottom.
- Next, you sprinkle activated charcoal.
- After we put 1 ½ spoon of sand on the charcoal.
- Fourthly we added 3 big gravel rocks.
- Finally, you pour the dirty water in the bottle and wallah fresh water.
Explanation - How did it work?
When you pour the dirty water into the bottle it will gradually go down to the charcoal and from there the Charcoal takes away all the bacteria and that’s why it ends up clean.
Why is it important for cities/towns etc to purify and clean the water before it gets to peoples’ homes?
So then people don’t get sick and their health won't be sick.
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