Week 2 Zooms By!

We've had another great week in Room VH. This week we have been learning and practicing adding. Every day we did a quick quiz in maths. Really great improvement in just one week.

In reading, quite a few people have moved around the reading garden - congratulations to them - I'm so proud of you and all your progress. So this means we have new reading groups next week.

In science we started learning how to make soft drink. Some really good predictions were made as to how we could do this. Come in and having a look at these on our science wall. We then made a bug - not an insect but a yeast bug. Each day we have fed it with ginger and sugar. The sugar is needed to feed the yeast. The mixture is starting to get quite bubbly - carbon dioxide is building up.

Facts

In a ginger beer mixture you have sugar and active yeast. The yeast uses the sugar to make energy. As the energy is made so is carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide gas dissolves into the liquid - the water and makes the water fizzy. This process is called fermentation and is the same process that’s used to make things like beer and wine. Next week we are going to make our soft drink. Discovery School cross country is coming up fast so we have been out on some practice runs. It has been good to have most of the children wearing running shoes - this makes it so much easier for them if they are wearing the right sort of shoes. Hopefully the weather will be kind so we can continue to build up our running stamina next week. Coming up in Week 3 Monday - Syndicate Assembly Wednesday - Library time (this week we are going at 9am) Thursday - Kapa Haka with Papa Murray Have a good week and we'll let you know how our ginger beer bug goes. Mrs H