Fibonacci

Today at Enrich the maths group did Fibonacci with spirals. The teacher asked if we know how it was related to Fibonacci and no one could guess why, so the teacher showed us the answer. We drew squares in a clockwise direction with the size of each square following the Fibonacci sequence. The fibonacci sequence goes: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21 and so on.  You find the next number by adding the previous 2 numbers together.  Do you know the fiftieth fibonacci number? Its twelve billion five hundred and eighty six million two hundred and sixty nine thousand and twenty five! 

"Pegasaurus"

Today I played "Pegasaurus" and what you have to do is steal pegs of the other team and you get two points for every one you still have on your back and one point for every one you steal of the other teams back. You have five people on each team and three pegs on each players back. You only get one minute to steal as many pegs as you can. It is a really fun game that also teaches us about strong choices. PS Today is my birthday and I am 8!

Biology

Today I did some biology for our high interest station,like we did last week. But today we did comic life and put our house fly pictures on comic life. After that we emailed it to Darryn and had morning tea. After morning tea we did some p4c and some debating. The topic for the debate was  do you think under eighteen should be able to go on face book. My side was the positive and it was really hard to come up with an idea.         

High Interest station

Today I did a high interest station using dinoscopes with Darryn. We pulled a house fly apart and took photos of it. Some had spider webs and do you know what I found a spider and it was alive! I took lots of photos of the spider while Darryn moved the dinoscope around so we would not lose it.      

Circuit boards

Today the science people made a circuit board with Jenni. There were three groups doing it but only two groups worked, mine was one of them. My groups one lit and then went pop! We needed 8 batteries, some wire, a jar, pie tins, 3cm of paper roll and leads. The people in my group were Finn Alex and myself. Every teacher looked at ours and the teacher took photos.      

Enviroment

Today Anastazia from Southland Environment  came and taught us about the environment. But after we realized that most things we have done in the past affected the future, so next week we are going to do a project to help stop the people realize their mistakes. Because we want more people respecting Invercargill not just some but everyone.  She told us about how we can help protect nature and get rid of the pests that try and harm nature.        

Chemistry

Today I did chemistry, it was pretty cool because we made some Elephant Toothpaste.  When we put yeast in and it rose up up up.  It looked like it was toothpaste because some of it had stripes in it.  Mine didn't.  I did yellow and green food colouring but I over did my yellow so I only got yellow.  We saw this video of some chemistry it was outside so they put all the stuff that we did except food colouring and it exploded in to the air because they used more hydrogen peroxide than us.