Bees Wax

Today Kaine became the Kaiako and taught us about Bees Wax. Kaine has his own bee hive and he has been collecting the bees wax. Kaine has decided that instead of throwing the bees wax away, he wants to make something out of it. Before he can use the bees wax he needs to purify it and get all the dirt and impurities out of it. In order to do this, Kaine double boiled his wax until it became a liquid. From there he poured the wax through a cheese cloth and the cloth collected all the dirt and imperfections. The liquid was collected in an ice cream container where it has set.
Kaine is now going to use the wax to create bees wax wraps which are a great alternative to using gladwrap! He is also going to have a go at making bees wax candles. Watch this space!

 

Basic Facts

Every morning we start our day with 100 basic facts questions. These are always different and they are a mix of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have 5 minutes to complete as many as we can. Below is a photo of our leader board. These people are our top 5 who have completed 100 questions correctly and as you can see, Kristian is the fastest by getting 100 correct in 1 minute and 51 seconds!

Our Door

It's Book Week at Grey Main this week and one of our challenges was to decorate our classroom door based around a book. We decided to do The Lorax and although the office decorated their door with The Lorax too, we were still pretty happy with our result! We used coloured paper for the background, Iris and Staci did our wonderful lettering, Honor and Ruby made our fantastic Lorax, Jazmine and Rylan found, printed and laminated all of our characters, Kaine and Zach made the trunks of the trees, Mia, Katelin, Katelynn and Corianna put the door display together and MIss Hines supplied us with the pompoms! Thanks to Mrs O who very kindly gave us some of her black pipe. 

We are pretty impressed with our work and think it looks great. 

Totara Science Fair

For the last 3 weeks of Term 1 and the first 2 weeks of Term 2, the Totara Hub have been working on Science Projects to share with an audience. The topics that we studied came from our camp to Mistletoe Bay and we all chose something that we were interested in.
This afternoon we opened up our classroom for visitors to come and have a look at the great work that we have done. Miss Hines is pretty proud of our efforts and we are too! We are keeping our projects up for tomorrow so our parents can pop in before school to have a look too!