Making Slime And Playing With Lucy

In the holidays I did lots of things. I made some really sticky slime.  We used borax, warm water, shaving foam and PVA glue and food colouring. I made 3 different colours of slime. They were white with blue gliter, green and yellow.  My favourite one was the one with blue glitter because I could make very big bubbles with it and it felt nice. 

On another day Lucy came over and we played in some very long grass. We named the game Run Away From Cars. We had to look for some cars driving past, if there were cars we would run into the grass and hide.  We got very wet from hiding in the long grass but it was super fun.  Then I was going to face plant into the long grass but I stopped myself and then still did it on purpose.  After that me and Lucy played a game where we had to push each other in to the long grass. 😃

Magic Powder

Today we did an experiment. We got into pairs and had a cup with sodium polyacrylate. Me, Sofia and Taylor were in a group. We did not know it was sodium polyacrylate. Then Chris gave us some water with a spoon. We had to put it in the cup. It made the powder expanded!!! We touched it and it felt soft but looked hard. We put 32 tea spoons of water in. Then Mrs Hickford put in to tea spoons of salt. The powder had air bubbles in it! It was turning into liquid. It looked really cool. I thought that it was going to fizz just like Finnian's volcano. I learnt that disposable nappies take 450 years to break down. Have you ever done this experiment? I found it fun and exiting because I didn't know what was going to happen next.

Holiday Activity

 This week for the school challange was to make an activity to do in the school holidays. My activity is in the school holidays make a book and draw pictures of places you have been and what you did. In the slide it will show you how to make a book and what to do. I have learnt how to make a book. I am proud that I made a book. It was fun to make. I hope you like it too. Have you ever made a book?

Bunny Polyline

This is my bunny.  I made it on a google draw. To make it I found a picture of a bunny and traced over it with the polyline tool. Then I added the detail. I took the picture away and chose a colour to make the bunny. Mrs Swinburn is going to put them on a slide. I am proud of my bunny because it looks great!!! It was hard tracing over the picture of the bunny. Do you have a pet bunny?

Scratch

This is my scratch. Mrs Swinburn did one in a DFI course and she was teaching us so we did a scratch. My scratch is about bowling and bating. There is a batter and a bowler. The bowler throws the ball and the batter hits it. To do it I had to use different blocks. These are the blocks I used for the ball and the bowler. The first blocks are for the ball and the second blocks are for the bowler. I didn't need to use any blocks for batter. I  a proud of making my characters move. I like making blocks to make the ball move. It was fun because sometimes it went crazy. Have you ever done scratch?

Bruce McLaren

This week for reading we are learning about Bruce McLaren. He is a racing car driver. Bruce was born in Auckland in 1937. He lived till he was 32. When Bruce was nine years old he got Perthes Disease. He got taken to Wilson Home for Crippled Children. Perthes Disease left Bruce with a life time limp but he still raced cars. Bruce won lots of local races. In 1958 he got into the Grand Prix. Bruce didn't win but he did earn a scholarship that gave young New Zelanders a chance to drive racing cars in Europe. As part of the scholarship, he was invited to join the famous Cooper racing team in England. When Bruce got to his car company he was given a space to work and a car, but his car didn't work because it was in pieces. Bruce had to make his car. In 1959, Bruce entered the United
States Grand Prix at Sebring, Florida. On the final lap Bruce was in the lead but a french driver was catching him but Bruce still won. Bruce had won the Grand Prix. It was his first try as well. He was 22 years old, the youngest driver ever to win the Grand Prix. It took 44 years for anyone to beat his time. On the 2nd of June 1970 Bruce was practising his driving and he lost control and crashed. He was instantly killed at the age 32.
This is a quote that Bruce said “It would be a waste of life to do nothing with one’s ability, for I feel that life is measured in achievement, not in years alone.” This quote means that Bruce had lots of achievements and you don't have to live long if you want to achieve something.
I learnt lots of stuff about Bruce. Like when he was born, when he died, how he was the youngest driver to win the Grand Prix.

Climbing Mt George

On the weekend I climbed Mt George with my Mum, Dad, Finnian, Isla, Lincoln, Sasha and Warrick. It was so much FUN😀😀!!! Have you ever done it?