Mrs Roil Poem....

Mrs Roil is sweet as a blueberry pie,

she shines in the sun and glows in the night.

She works hard to get us to our learning point,

and if we fall she would fix our joint.

Mrs roil would always be the best,

but sometimes she just needs her rest.

Mrs roil is the best teacher in the world,

and thank you for helping us learn.

Egg Drop

EGG DROP - NEWTON’S LAW OF INERTIA

Demonstrate gravity, motion, and other forces with this incredible science trick.

      

The Egg Drop is a classic science demonstration that illustrates Newton's Laws of Motion, namely inertia. The challenge sounds so simple... just get the egg into the glass of water, but there are a few obstacles. The egg is perched high above the water on a cardboard tube, and a pie plate sits between the tube and the water. Still think it's easy? Sir Isaac Newton does.

Materials

• Cardboard tube
• Pie pan
• Eggs
• Water
• A large drinking glass
• Tray (optional)
• Coloring Tablets (optional)

EXPERIMENT

Warning: Always wash your hands well with soap and water after handling raw eggs. Some raw eggs contain salmonella bacteria that can make you really sick!

1. Fill the large drinking glass about three-quarters full with water.
2. Center a pie pan on top of the glass.
3. Place the cardboard tube on the pie plate, positioning it directly over the water.
4. Carefully set the egg on top of the cardboard tube.
5. With your writing hand, smack the edge of the pie pan horizontally. Don't swing up, and don't swing down! It’s important that you hit the pie pan horizontally and use a pretty solid hit, so plan on chasing the plate and tube.
6. Your astonished guests will watch the egg plop nicely into the water. It’s even more fun to watch someone else try to drop the egg. Science is so cool!

TAKE IT FURTHER!

• Try setting up a tray (like one that you would get from a fast food restaurant) on top of five glasses. USe five tubes and five eggs and see if you are an egg drop master! *HINT* The angle that you hit the tray from can make all the difference.
• Add coloring to the water in your egg drop for added effect.
• Try testing longer tubes, more or less water, different liquids in the glass, different water containers, and heavier or lighter falling objects.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

Credit for this one has to go to Sir Isaac Newton and his First Law of Motion. He said that since the egg is not moving while it sits on top of the tube, that’s what it wants to do - not move. You applied enough force to the pie pan to cause it to zip out from under the cardboard tube (there’s not much friction against the drinking glass). The edge of the pie pan hooked the bottom of the tube, which then sailed off with the pan. Basically, you knocked the support out from under the egg. For a brief nanosecond or two, the egg didn’t move because it was already stationary (not moving). But then, as usual, the force of gravity took over and pulled the egg straight down toward the center of the Earth.

Also, according to Mr. Newton’s First Law, once the egg was moving, it didn’t want to stop. The container of water interrupted the egg’s fall, providing a safe place for the egg to stop moving so you could recover it unbroken. The gravity-pushed egg caused the water to splash out. Did someone get wet?

- See more at: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/egg-drop-inertia-trick#sthash.OJhXOOfl.dpuf

Why it worked: The egg experiment worked because when you pulled the paper plate the gravity forced the egg down and into the glass. In my group it was JJ first. Mrs Roil only let our group have one egg so if we broke it, we won't get a new one. Down below are the results of who succeeded.

JJ- *Success*

Kory- *Success*

Jaidyn R- *Success*

Samuel- *Fail*

Ethan. *Fail*

We still used the egg when I cracked it so that Ethan would get a turn. The egg landed on the side of the glass when I pulled the paper plate.

Minecraft- question answering story.........

Minecraft

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1.What is your favorite thing to build on Minecraft?  Milly

3.Do you build with redstone? Jaidyn R

4.Have you ever played hardcore mode? Heith

2.What is the biggest thing you have ever made on minecraft? Poppy

5.Do you play in any other virtual worlds? Mrs Roil

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Minecraft is a square block game, it is very addictive and is really fun.  I would say I am quite good at it- but I’m not trying to show off! In this story I will talk about some things about minecraft.

There are some cool things you can do on minecraft is build structures and buildings, one of the most popular things to build is a house.  A house can be great for shelter, storage and to keep away from angry mobs like creepers or zombies.  You can build a house out of heaps of different blocks.  Like maybe a house out of iron, wool, cobblestone or even dirt. Houses can be turned into bases where you can heave secret piston doors. Bases are my favorite things to build.   I have built giant bases.  The biggest thing I have ever build would have to be the Eiffel Tower, It was over 100 blocks tall. I built it from bedrock all the way up.  

Sometimes I make cool inventions out of redstone There are many cool things to build in redstone.  The most popular thing is probably a piston door.  Redstone can be quite confusing sometimes.  Redstone repeaters can be used for many things like delaying the signal and transforming more power into the signal.  

There are many modes you can be in on minecraft such as: Hardcore mode, creative and survival.  I have played on all modes before, even hardcore mode.  Creative is the easiest mode because you get to fly, break blocks instantly and get infinite resources. Survival is medium because you have to find all the resources and you take damage and can't fly.  Hardcore mode is the hardest mode, you only have one life and if you die you can't respawn and you have to delete the world.  

There are many different virtual worlds like roblox and terria.  Other worlds I play in is roblox, but i don't play on roblox anymore.

Basic facts test results

This is my basic facts test results on a bar graph, I think that this is the best way to publish my results to the web. It is actually easy to find out how I improved. I think this is the best way to publish my results.

Wolf report

My cyber safety animate!

This is my animate! I made it on this site:
http://www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html
It is like a reflection, i hope you enjoy!

My room

To my right I see my wall that has heaps of things all over it like art, to my left I see my new draws nice and clean as a whistle. I look up and see my model aeroplane floating above me, with string that blends in with the air. “Hmmm” I say, and look at my shelf with some things that I got for my birthday, like Lego. What if Lego becomes real and came to life? That will be fun, I thought. They will bounce on my desk and try to work my computer. They might even download the Lego texture pack, play Minecraft and even make a multiplayer server. I do not even know how to do that.


This must be me and this must be my room!

My tree of life!

This is my tree of life, I am very proud of it. You can scan this with a apple product. I used a pattern for the stem. I also used things like decorations that are hung from string. I have Minecraft things because I love Minecraft.

Here is my art!

My mathletics poster 2012.......

Production Diary....!

Dear Diary,

Hello my name is Samuel and I am a advert designer followed with Matthew, Sami, Teva and Jack. Our add is STATE!


Day One
I’m on the seat looking ahead of me and seeing empty space. “While we are waiting we will take a quick commercial break”, Casey says. Jack gets up and walks forward Matthew and I follow. I thought it will -not actually be that bad. “Tonight I crashed into the poultry queen” , I heard Jack singing. I just waited and waited till my part was on, wait it already is my part!
I quickly sing: “I just woke up from the strangest dream, my house was robbed around me broke in and didn't rouse me, they stole my favourite thing my big TV!”

“Call the police man first then call the team at State. Ain't nothing gonna break my stride oh no state will keep you moving!”
“Call 0800 4 state”, Jack said in a lady voice.
I waited and finally the day was over!





Day Two
Matthew, Jack and I arrived in the hall and straight away got on the seat, it was sad that Sami and Teva were away. “Advertisment one!” Ms Hill yeled. we got up and done it very fast before we knew it, it was done. I did it without even thinking!








Day Three
We work on our sound and I do my same cool expression when I say they stole my favourite thing, my big TV! We are performing to the parents and we also have Sami and Teva with us, which is great because we have not had them with us because Teva was sick and Sami was in Auckland.



Day Four
I am performing to my parents and family tonight and I am performing to the school today!
“Ok go line up outside to go the hall.” , Mr Moriarty informed. So I lined up and the class went to the hall.(we had a little bit of fun before that):3

KWL on the book, A Bit Of A Laugh

This is about Sir Edmund Hillary. This is a KWL table. We read a book first then I made this.

K	W	L
They call him Eddie but his real name is Edmund Hillary	How high was Mt. Everest measured in Feet?	Mt. Everest  is 29,029 feet
He died about six years ago	How old was he when he climbed Mt.Everest?	Hillary was 33 years of age when he reached the summit of Mount Everest three weeks before his next birthday.
He was the first person to climb Mt. Everest
He is on the five dollar note

The tube of wonders

“Ahhh! A lovely day, Mum,” I said loudly. “Can I go feed the mountain dogs up in their kennels?”
Mum said yes. I did not really want to go up there but the dogs need their food! I went up the tall mountain and finally reached the mountain house, the dogs were jumping inside and wanting to come out. I let them out the door and they sped away down the deck and round to the other side of the mountain. I followed them very tiredly. My sister woke me up last night because she had a nightmare. I closed my eyes and kept running when I realised I had bumped this hard thing. I opened my eyes. I saw this very strange structure, I went up to  the door. There was a sign that said witch switch will you pull, with brackets saying (100,000 total) , there must be that much switches, but I could not see any switches. Well daaa Sam, I said in my head, go in. I went in it was full of switches wear ever I go! I thought about what the sign said. “I want to pull the right switch, Hunter and Josh, but I do not know what one will be the right one. I pulled the fifth switch a clown came out on unicycle and done a dance. I pulled another, half of the floor came of and the clown fell into hot boiling lava. I gulped, I did not want to switch another one but I did, My dog went flying into the wall. “ Hey!”, I said . Onto my next switch It opened up a wall and I went inside. It had a cube hanging from nothing, it was glowing green I grabbed it and ran as fast as I could back down the hill, josh and hunter chased me I reached home and went into my bedroom and closed the door and bereaved. I looked at the cube. It flashed and an bug looking thing came out. It could fly. “Ahhh! What is that” I said, I ran, It followed me, suddenly I stopped for a minute and looked behind me. The bug looked sad. I feed it some leaves and some fruit it did not like that. I feed it some cheese, it gulped it down and flew around in a circle five times.
I decided to keep it in a jar with holes in the top and when it dies I will still keep it, or maybe it might have kids and get married and live happily ever after.

Cube (this is where I got the picture from)

My Greek Vase.......

This is my Greek Vase, it tells a story!
Scan the QR code with an Apple product.

Here is the link so you can make your own QR CODE

This is my Art.

How I am learning in room 20?

I am halfway through my awesome year of learning in Room 20. How am I learning?

Some things that are different about this year are I have more tools to help with my learning.

Having a computer and Google account has helped me my writing on google docs and helped me get more information.

I like having a blog because I can show my work and people comment and can see my work.

I share my learning by posting it on my blog.

I help others by helping them to use our tools.

I use ICT to help my learning in these ways: I get heaps of information and facts for things like our topic and research lessons, I also can do things like take pictures on a webcam or other tools.

I get feedback for my learning from Sami, My Family, Felicity and heaps of the class. They give me feedback by commenting and asking and telling things. This makes me feel very proud of my work and makes me feel good about myself and what I have put into my work.

Things I am really proud of achieving in Room 20 are better with my imagination for my writing, also I am proud of getting very high in maths.


I am most proud of this year.

My origins story- A story of a lone robot.

It was another lonely day,

I went for a walk in the woods, horrible smoke was blazing in the air. I suddenly saw a train go by 15km per hour, the fifth carriage had a logo like mine. It looked like I would find a friend or two, so I pounced on the sixth carriage. It zoomed all the way down a metal road it was so long so I went to sleep. I reached this weird factory it looked abandoned,but not for long,I walked some more a huge gate flung open without a push as if some ghost had opened it. Big forklifts screeched and pounded into sheds, with big shipping containers. They almost ran over me with their big wheels!
I stepped on a leaf from the forest, I thought and went back into the forest.

The "Weeping Shadows"

THE WEEPING SHADOWS

We read a book called The Weeping Shadows, it was based in real life, in Greenland the ice island. Vikings used to be in some of the caves. Some pictures are displayed below:

There are five chapters there names are: Holiday Jobs, Sunglasses at Midnight, Something feels wrong,

The Vikings, Until next Summer.

They are very short chapters.

My recycling poster!

This is my Recycling poster. It is also is an advertisement. 

My term 2 reflection!

Reading

My favourite in Reading has been... Charlie and Lola and buddy

Something I have learnt is how to read better.

My next step is to go up to droids by the end of the year

Writing

This is my favourite writing The joy of summer

I am proud of all of my writing.

I have learnt:

• to put an : when you list things.

My next step is to have more success criteria

I like my blog because you can share things on it
This is my favourite post Noun poem because it has pictures of things, it’s a poem, it has a cool background and it is a popular post on my blog.

I like commenting on blogs because it makes people feel good about their work.
This is my favourite comment Zeb's blog post.
Maths

My favourite maths is fractions

I am proud of My baked beans recipe

I have learnt

• most of my fractions.

Something I find challenging is my fractions and division facts

My next step is to learn more

Art
my favourite art is our jungle inside.
Topic
Something I have liked in our topic learning is our rubbish groups.

P.E. / Fitness
What I like about this is we can be fit.
I like playing these games:

• corner ball
• blob
• soccer
• abc bulrush
• running to the cricket net and back

I learn and develop the skills by playing these games.
Fitness helps me learn.

Something I liked was my interview was good.                            




This is my 

Tagxedo for my term 2 reflection

My Toondoo homework challenge.

This is a Toon! you can make heaps of cartoon animation etc. at a cool website called Toondoo, follow the link bellow to toondoo!


click here (you have to sign up first)

Tsunami! wave of destruction Q&A

Tsunami!
wave of destruction
Q&A

Q “How can Tsunamis be caused?”
A “Volcanic eruptions, Undersea landslides, Nuclear explosions, Meteorites, Storm surges or Undersea earthquakes”.

Q “What are Tsunamis mostly caused by?”
A “Undersea earthquakes.”

Q “How do you get warned that a Tsunami is going to occur?”
A “Seismograph detects undersea earthquake- Signal is sent to broadcast center- Community is warned about Tsunamis approach by a Tsunami siren- People move to higher ground”