Aeroview Trip

On Tuesday me and my Impact group went on a trip to Aeroview garden centre to learn about composting and sowing seeds . Paul Green was the man who was talking to us .

We learnt about all the different ways of composting . One kind is a hot compost and the other kind is a cold compost , A hot compost is the quickest method and when you put some in the garden it destroys the weed seeds by cooking them. A cold compost takes less effort and has some of the same things in it , except it takes longer .
We also got the chance to plant our own plants



We planted:

• lettuce
• watermelon
• beetroot
• silverbeet

This is us planting the seeds

Current Events

A teenager in Malawi, Africa, brought electricity and running water to his village by building a windmill out of rubbish.

William Kamkwamba lived through a severe drought in 2002 that killed thousands of people in Malawi and almost caused his family to starve to death. During the drought he was unable to go to school but continued to read books and study alone.

During his study William found a textbook about windmills and was fascinated by how they could create electricity and pump water. When he realised that such a device could help defend his family he decided to build one of his own.

Many of the villagers thought William had lost his mind, spending his time going through the trash and staying up well into the night building something most of them had never even heard of.

William’s neighbours and family were amazed when his windmill was complete and he showed them how it could be used to power light and pump water. He certainly became a local hero!

Source : Diane Mulhern

http://www.kiwikidsnews.co.nz/

Current events

George Kirby( 103 ) and Doreen Luckie ( 91) have been together for
27 years and finally they got married on Georges 103rd birthday.


















This is the oldest couple ever to get   a record combined age of
194 beating the previous record of 191 .
Between them they have 7 children ,
15 grandchildren and 7 great grand children

 

Cross Country

Cross Country

I woke up feeling nervous and tired I got up and put my clothes warm clothes on ( I had my running clothes on underneath) and went out to the kitchen to have breakfast . after we got ready and mum rushed us out the door we all hopped into the car and started driving to south farms. I was staring out the window watching all the trees and paddocks rushing by and suddenly we pulled in and went up the driveway of south farms , all my memories of cross country came rushing back as I saw the wool shed and the running track .

My race was up first so I peeled of my warm clothes to reveal my running gear. It was cold, I was nervous and my feet were already covered in mud as me and the rest of the 11 year olds marched down the hill to the start line . Mr Fraser explained the track to us after we warmed up , The boys started first and ran off and up the hill , I was not ready at all but anyway we all had to line up on the start line and wait for Mr Fraser to say go . “GO!” he shouted and we all started running up the small hill , My feet sunk deep into the mud every step I took , The stones really hurt as I scrambled across the stream . after the stream there was a small hill that we had to run up and then run down

( or in my case slide down ) , after the hill we had to follow the gravel track up to the killer hill ( dun dun dun) . The killer hill was steep and big and was hard to run down without tripping or cutting your feet but I stormed on .

Then at the bottom of the hill we had to run along beside the stream and the cross it and run back across the small slippery hill and then at the end was yet another steep hill that we had to climb to the top of and the sprint round the corner to the finish line , I could hear my friends cheering as I sprinted round the corner to the finish line . Finally it was finished so I bent over to catch my breath I didn't make it to Hauraki Plains but I was still proud .

current events

I came across this article about our every day things being banned for silly reasons .

ketchup in schools -
France banned ketchup in school cafeterias
because they were afraid of ruining french cuisine .

Chewing gum -
Singapore banned the sale of chewing gum in 1992 and it is still banned now .

Video games -
China has just lifted a 14 year ban on the sale of video games . In 2001 South Korea blocked children from playing online video games between midnight and 6:00 am .

Flip flop -
In Capri , Italy , flip flops are banned because of the noise they make .

Science

This week for science we did an experiment on floating and sinking .

•   We think something will sink if it is has higher density
•   and it will float if it has less density

For the experiment we used an orange and we dropped it in the water with the skin on and it floated and then we got another orange and peeled it and then dropped it in the water and it sunk . We think the skin of the orange has air in it and acts as a life jacket and when we took the peel off it sunk because the orange has no air in it .

Sugary drinks

Last week on Friday T.A came in to teach us about how much sugar is really in our drinks.
She talked to us about what sorts of things are the most healthy and what we should drink after sports or sports training . She told us what happens to our body when all that sugar gets into our system we get all hypo and we are really energetic for a bit because our heart starts to beat really fast and it is called a sugar rush but when the sugar rush ends it is called a crash which is when you get all tired and angry and sleepy . 

T.A lined up all the drinks from the least sugar to the most
here was the order :
1. Water
2. milk
3. one cup of Raro
4. Flavoured water

5. small can of V

6.Can of coke

7. Powerade

8.Mother

9. bottle of coke

10. e2

And then last of all she talked to us about diet coke and coke zero

She told us that on the back it says there is no sugar in it but really it is worse than normal coke because it has artificial sugar it it .