Another day of work

Today in room 6 the class looked at some more on the Commonwealth Games. We noticed that Australia had taken the lead from England having 73 medals in total. Our country New Zealand is coming in 6th on the medal table. In the men's section we have 5 golds, 5 silvers and 8 bronze medals. In the woman's we have 3 golds, 3 silvers and 3 bronze medals. In the mixed we have none there is another one but I don't know it and so we have a total of 27.

Also in R.E we have been learning about what a sacrament is and we know that it is a sign from god that people can see because we can't see god so he can send signs  that we can see.

Also in writing we wrote about the country that we researched. Some people got up to their good copy and on one side they did the flag of their country and on the other side they did their review of their country.

That's all for today join Jacob tomorrow for another report.

Roving Reporter: Finn

The popcorn blast

We started off with 537 popcorn kernels. 60 popcorn kernels didn't pop on the oil. We turned the element on medium heat and added our kernels in. We also added some oil and watched patiently as our kernels popped. It took about 5 minutes for it to start popping though.

We learnt that inside the hull of the kernel, there is some starch and a droplet of water. Nevertheless, we carried on with our procedure. The pot started vibrating, indicating that the popping was off to a good start. We moved the pot around eagerly waiting for all of the kernels to pop. After around 2-3 minutes, we turned off the heat and took the pot off the element. It was served on some paper towels. It was fun doing this with Finn, Mya, Harikoa and Tyler. 

A studying moment

My feelings as I entered the ice glacier were tired and normal. When I was on the ground, I saw two huge walls of ice.

There was some snow, some icicles and I could see a streak of sunlight beaming down.

I took a bit of a walk around while looking and studying the ice walls and how thin it was.

The walls of ice had little puddles of very cold water. WOW!

Once I had finished studying the ice, I grabbed my hooks and climbed up, any dry ice could send me falling forty feet.

My hooks were hitting the ice hard. My gloves making sure the ice was cold and thick and I was kicking into the ice hard.

Once I had made it back to the top my friend pulled me up. 

The helicopter was waiting for us up top. My friend and I got on board and we flew back to base.

We were safe!