The Hatchet

We read a book in class called The Hatchet It was about a boy called Brian Robinson who got lost in the Canadian Forest when travelling to his father in Canada. He is in a desperate fight for survival when his plane crashes with him and a dead pilot inside, belted in a plummeting jet. Brian survives but is desperately trying to safe himself. He goes through many traumatic experiences such as a tornado and a mission to get the survival pack inside the shredded plane. He eventually gets home after his grueling travel to the woods. I think it was a fantastic book by Gary Pulsen, I reccomend this book for anyone who like a good adventure. :)

What Makes Good Instructions?

Yesterday we did an exercise to see what makes good instructions.

I think good instructions have to include...

Specific measurements, Such as:

Step forward 5 metres

Now take 1 step

Shuffle forward a couple of centimetres.

And clear directions, like:

Now turn left

In 2 seconds turn right

Turn right now and then turn left

I think it is important to give clear instructions so we can use accurate words to explain directions :)

How To Make A Paper Plane! :)

1. Place A4 paper landscape down in front of you and fold it across so it creates a crease and then unfold it.

2. Fold the top corners down to the crease in the middle.

3. Now fold it in half so it resembles an envelope form.

4. Now fold the top corners down like in step 2.

5. Now fold it in half to the left so it is going across instead of up.

6. Fold one half over to the middle and then the other side.

7. Have Fun with your paper plane! :)

How to make a Lava Lamp!

1. Pour 1/3 of a cup of water into a jar.

2. Slowly add 1 cup of oil to the water and wait for them to seperate.

3. Put in 1-5 drops of the food colouring of your choice.

4. Drop in Alka Seltzer tablet to the ingredients and wait for the magic to        begin! :)

Paper Planes

Today we made researched about paper planes.

Taylah and I discovered lots of interesting facts about them, we then created our own and tested them in the learning centre. I made a successful one so I made a list of instructions to make them on a word document.

After lunch we are going to find out which paper plane is the best flyer/diver in the class, I hope my paper plane will do well :)

Science @ School

In P4 we have been doing science in the lab at school.
Our latest experiment has been constructing a lava lamp using water, oil, food colouring and Boroca. Our hypothosis was 'Does a larger jar increase the amount of bubbles?' we found out that it does but it also decreases the size, so we ended up having lots of little bubbles. We tried another experiment comparing 'hot and cold water' in a test tube and 'what would be the result?'. Test tube with the hot water had the most activity and most bubbles but it only went for a little time as the hot water dissolved the tablet quicker than the cold water. We had lots of fun in the lab and I am looking forward to going back tommorrow :)