Our blog is now closed for the 2014 school year and there will be no new posts. You will still be able to access our blog though the Halcombe School website. Thank you for your support throughout the year, we have loved sharing our learning with you.

Have a fun and relaxing holiday!

What a fantastic end to the year! Thank you parents and children for another wonderful year! Have a safe and happy holiday!

 

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Class Trip

We had a fantastic 4km walk along the ‘Manawatu Riverside Pathway’. We really enjoyed walking along the riverside and through the bush ending up at the ‘Esplanade’. After a well-deserved morning tea we played in the awesome playground. Our next activity was a competitive quiz through the bird aviary and rose garden. We had such a fun day! Thank you so much to the parents who came with us, we couldn’t have gone without you!

To finish off our science unit we make SHERBET! After mixing all the ingredients together we felt it fizz and foam up in our mouths, YUM!

 

We have had a fantastic pet day! The children made awesome indoor exhibits and it was wonderful to have all the children’s pets at school! We had lambs, calves, rabbits, chickens, birds, horses, dogs, cats and goats! It was such a fun day and we really enjoyed having all the animals at school!

Today in science we mixed baking soda and vinegar in a bottle. We pressed a cork in the top and watched as it shot out. This happened because the two ingredients, an acid and a carbonate, mixed together to form carbon dioxide gas. The gas had to escape, causing the cork to go flying! It was an awesome experiment!

 

We have started our science unit, ‘Fizzing and Foaming’. We are learning how to be a scientist by Predicting, Observing and Explaining. Today we did an experiment mixing carbonates, such as baking soda and washing powder, with acids, such as lime juice and vinegar and watched the reactions unfold!

We have finished our Bath Salts! We have had lots of fun going through the technology process of designing and making a product. We have enjoyed testing different recipes, choosing the scents,  (lavender, vanilla or sandalwood) and designing the jars for the salts to go in. Each of us will be giving our bath salts to our clients to enjoy!

 

Today we had our first go at making our product ‘bath salts’. It was lots of fun putting all the ingredients together, trying out the different scents we could use, and testing different colours. We discovered what we liked, didn’t like and what we would like to change!

PRINTS

We have had lots of fun making prints of spring flowers. First, we cut a flower out of cardboard. After that, we made a design on our flower, making sure we had three layers. We left our templates overnight so the glue set. The next day we rolled the ink on to the templates and pressed hard. We carefully removed the paper to reveal our awesome prints!

 

On Friday we had a visit from the Halcombe Fire Brigade. The Student Council and Tyler presented them with the money we fundraised on 'Red Day' for the Blood and Leukaemia foundation.