Which takes longer?

The Pirates of the Pacific have started to learn about measurement and have only just started today.

We talked about what we think meausurment is. We had lots of different ideas. Look at the photos of the ideas we wrote down.

The type of measurement we are learning is time. We had a list of things to do and we had partners. The partner had to write down how long it took them to do an activity.

Hopping on one foot took the least amount of time. For some people building the tower took the longest amount of time. For other people writing their name 10 times took the longest amount of time.

Carrot update

We have been watching our carrots since we put them in water a few weeks ago. They have changed a lot!

Roots have grown out the sides of the carrots and green bits have grown out the top (Kobe).

The carrots have grown gynormous green stalks out of the top of the carrots and the carrots grown huge, white roots out the side of the carrots. They all have roots. All of the carrots have black bits that are mould growing on them (Morgan).

The carrots have sucked up heaps of water. Ngaire has been putting more water in every day (Georgia).

I wonder if they're going go rotten (Jacob).
I wonder why the green stalks are different sizes on different carrots (Salah).
I wonder if the black bits will go away (Grace).
I wonder how big the green stalks are going to grow (Lili).
I wonder if the orange that is still on the carrot it will all go black and have green stalks and a black top of carrot (Morgan).
I wonder if the green stalks will get any bigger (Maia).
I wonder if the orange bit is going to go all black (Emma).
I wonder if it's going to grow even larger (Adarsh).
I wonder if the roots are going to come out even more (Maia).
I wonder if soon the green bits will start falling off (Corban).

Board Report

We have been learning to play soccer and it's not just normal soccer. You have to get it between the cones (Jewelian-Paul). We have been learning about to do dribble a ball. We dribble the ball with the side of our foot (Georgia). We've been learning to dribble the ball halfway and pass it to your player (Kaleb).

In maths time triangles have been learning to count in doubles and we have to count the doubles in our heads and if it's really hard we just do it with our fingers behind our backs. You do doubles like 10+10=20 (Morgan). We [circles] have been learning how to count in our heads so you know the answer just like that (Adam).

In science we put the tops of carrots in water. After a few weeks they started to grow. The top leafy part of the carrot has grown tall (Brooklyn). In science we have been doing some water and salt [experiments]. Each time Ngaire comes around giving us some salt and everyone has a turn to mix the water so the salt dissolves (Salah). Crystals were supposed to grow but they haven't. We have been doing experiments to answer our questions.

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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.