Sherbet Science Experiment

Today for science we did a sherbet experiment. We were given the four ingredients that make sherbet, icing sugar, baking soda, citrus acid and tartaric acid. In my group was Gina, Nathaniel, Riley, Molly H and me. We made about five recipes but in the end we got the perfect one. Our one almost tasted like store bought sherbet! Overall I think this experience was really good and I would love to do science involving sugar again.   

Candy Rush

Today in maths we did an place value activity called Candy Rush. We all got a sheet and a candy bag with lollies in it ( pictures of them not actual lollies). Each bag had a value and an amount, the amount in my bag was 26 lollies and the value was 58,350.41.  Then after that we got put into groups to do some activities like making a table for all our names, values and amounts. I had fun doing this maths activity because it used teamwork and a lot of thinking.

Graduation Mass

Yesterday we had Graduation Mass. I was not graduating but me and the other year 5 students got leadership candles which was cool. We sung some lovely songs and a new one called Light a Candle in the Darkness. This was also Mrs Gleeson's last mass which was very sad. Frankie did a very good speech and it inspired me to treasure my memories of Good Shepherd. I really liked this mass and guess what, it will be MY graduation next year! I can't wait!

A to Z of NZ artists

For my inquiry passport I did this list of NZ artists starting from Aaradhna all the way to Ivan Zagini. I had lots of fun learning about some NZ artists that I didn't even know existed! I got 20 points for doing this activity. Overall I really liked doing this project and would recomend it for other people to do.

Spud Gun Experiment

Today we did a continued experiment. It was a continued experiment because last week when we tried it and we failed and needed to try again so today we did.The experiment we did was a spud gun experiment. How it worked was that we got a straw stabbed it through the potato and twisted it so the potato came out with it and then we did this to the other side then stuck the blunt end of a skewer in slowly and it was meant to fly out. But it wasn't that easy, I had a green straight straw and it was really hard to get the straw through to the other side of the potato so what I did was I stabbed the straw in as much as I could then did it to the other. It worked... barely, the furthest I could get mine was 15 cm and I am not kidding. I liked doing this even if it didn't work, maybe in the future I will try it again and it will work really well. But that is just science.