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Carrots

Today we put some tops of some carrots into some water. We are going to look at them all week to see what happens.

They will probably change colour. Joshua
The carrots will turn the water orange. Lili
The carrots will disappear in the water and then the water will turn orange. Corban
The orange part of the carrots is going to drop into the water so all the water is orange but the green part of the carrot is going to float on top of the water. Maia
When we put the carrot in the water the carrot juice sucks it up and when the juice sucks it up maybe everything will turn orange.

Celery Eperiment take 2

The leaves on the celery have turned red and the leaves on the blue one have turned blue. The colour even went up the stems of the celery. It looked like veins.

We have also put some flowers into water with food colouring and the pedals starting to be the same colour as the food colouring that is in the water. The die has coloured the flowers a lot quicker than the celery. I wonder why the flowers took less time than the celery did?

You could try this experiment at home too. You will need some flowers or celery, food colouring, water and a jar or a cup to put it in.

The celery experiment

We have made an experiment about celery and we put water in a jar and we put food colouring in and then we put the celery in. We wanted to see if the celery could turn blue or red so we could know that the experiment really is true. We had to just wait like for an hour to wait for the celery grow the colours. The colours were blue and red. The leaves and the bottom parts have turned a bit red but the celery that was int eh blue dye was just blue at the bottom. There is starting to be a little bit of blue on the leaves. But there is a lot of red on the other celery. The red celery is dark and the blue celery is light. I wonder what the celery will look like tomorrow.

Jacob the bubble maker

Jacob blew a bubble when it was discovery time (Lili). This is a secret way of making Jacob's bubble (Brooklyn). I had to rub my hands in the bubble mixture. Then rub it on my hands. Then carefully make my fingers to a diamond and then point it up a little bit and then blow softly (Jacob). It was really easy for Jacob and others tried to do the same as him (Salah). Some people make bubbles in the bath (Georgia). Jacob must be very proud of himself (Georgia). Jacob is quite clever (Brooklyn)! This is a secret way of doing a bubble with your hands (Dallas). Here is a video of Jacob making bubbles. Please leave us a comment!

Brooklyn's work

This is Brooklyn learning during maths. He is trying to figure out his activity sheet using counters (Grace). Our group is learning to make the numbers into groups and then takeaway the number (Brooklyn). He was acting like I wasn't even there when I took the photo (Kobe). This shows integrity (Jacob). He must have really been concentrating! This is working with excellence because he was trying his best and not talking to anyone (Kaleb). When Brooklyn was doing his worksheet he was showing integrity (Lili). When someone was talking to him he just ignored them and he just kept working Kaleb.

The old man and the sand monster

There once was an old man. He had no money. He was very poor. He could not go a kilometer a day. he had no shoes. His feet were extremely hot. Suddenly the ground started to shake. The poor man fell down and the sand monster who had spikes on his back and fiery eyes ate the man up. But his skin was so wrinkly and yukky and his feet extremely hot that it burnt the sand monsters tongue. So he spat him out. He was covered in slime.

This is Callum's story. Isn't it fantastic? He did it when it was writing time yesterday. We were impressed because he used heaps of wow words to explain what he really wanted it to be. This made it really interesting. Well done Callum!