Science

Today for science we did three experiments again, and my favourite was the one called lava lamp. We used Berocca tablets, a small fizzy bottle, some oil, and some water, plus food coloring.
First we poured the water into the bottle. Then we poured the oil in, and when we did that it started to sink but then got pushed back up. Then we added the food coloring and it sank through the oil to the water and started to mix, but that changed when we added the Berocca tablets. It started to react with the water causing the food coloring to be lifted up in droplets to the oil which gave a lava lamp like effect. It was really fun.

              

Science

Today in science we did four experiments. My favourite one was the one called fire extinguisher. We used a plastic piece of tube, some baking soda, some vinegar and a coke or pepsi bottle with a hole in the lid. We poked the piece of tube in through the lid, then made sure in was in properly by sealing it with blu-tack. We poured vinegar into the bottle, and then quickly added baking soda. When we sealed the lid, we put a finger over the end of the tube that was outside of the bottle, and pointed it at a candle that had been lit. My group was the only group that sucessfully blew out the candle, and it was a lot of fun, along with the other three experiments.

Science Talent Development

Today for Science Talent Development we were looking at solids, gases and liquids. First we did an experiment where we had three ice cubes. One of them was just plain frozen water. The other two were frozen sugar water and frozen orange raro. We put them in a petri dish each and checked up on them every three minutes to see which was melting the fastest. It turned out that plain and sugar water ice cubes melted the fastest. The raro ice cube melted the slowest because the raro was holding all the water together and not letting go.

We did another experiment after that. This one was the same except instead of having different kinds of ice cube, we had three plain ice cubes,  one without anything on it, one with salt sprinkled on top, and one with sugar sprinkled on top. The one with salt on top melted the quickest, because the salt is kind of like an acid.

First day Back !

This is my first day back, and I've already had a really busy day. We've jumped straight into the new talent development, and I'm loving it! I chose to do science out of science and maths because I wanted to try something different. We had a look at the science trolley and it was packed full of cool stuff, like test tubes and beakers. My favourite part was the experiment. We used a light sensor that was hooked up to a computer and tested whether the light coming out from a candle, remote control, a lamp and a dinoscope was constant or fluctuating. It turned out that the lamp and dinoscope were both constant, while the candle and the remote control were fluctating. I had a lot of fun, and I can't wait for the next session.

Writing Talent Development

The last few weeks for Writing Talent Development we have been learning how to use GarageBand and Kid Pix. My favourite one to use is GarageBand, because you can get all kinds of different voices, sounds and instruments like helium breath, alarm and kazoo. I have also been busy writing my story for the MADE awards. I have already written three pages and I am pretty close to finishing it off so I can start turning it into a mini-movie.

Second day at Enrich

Today was my second day at Enrich for term 3 2011, and I wasn't as busy as I thought I would be.  For Talent Development we completed a sheet as a group about the fairy-tale Snow White. After that we were asked whether we were going to enter as group or independent and everyone chose independent. Then we were given a sheet to plan our stories. Most of them were about kidnapping or aliens or mystery but one was about friendship. Later on I did an activity called Make/Create Interactions and what I had to do was create an interaction. I chose to make a stick figure attached to a table with string because the string was holding up the man and the stick figure was keeping the string attached, and that is an interaction.

Hi Katlyn.
Well done on a great start back to Enrich for the term.  You settled into our "new-look" day with ease.  You worked so well during our first session of writing for talent development.  You put a lot of detail into your analysis of fairy-tales.  I look forward to getting started on the planning and actual writing for your narrative stories.  I think we are going to have a lot of creative ideas coming through.  It was great to see you plan your afternoon so well.  You prioritised what needed to be done and completed both P4C and the drama workshop.  I can see you are thinking ahead, which is going to help you to have a successful term.  Well done Katlyn!
Katie.