Inquiry

In inquiry we have been doing a big research task in groups of 3 or 4. Our task is to choose out of the countries Mrs Goldfinch had given us to choose from. My group is doing Syria, some other groups are doing countries like China, Uganda, South Africa and many more. We had to complete various questions about 5 categories using the different solo taxonomy words about our country. The 5 categories were, culture, geography, resources, history and issues and problems. The questions were mostly based on human rights, because that was the topic we had been focusing on before this. Here's some of the questions that are on the sheet -
- How does the religion of the country impact citizen's freedom?
- What would it be like to go to school in your country?
- Do the country's politics violate human rights?
- What does your country import/export?
- Imagine if you were the leader of your country. What would you do? How long would it take before you see a significant change?

these are just some examples of the questions we have to do. We had to research these questions or if they require thinking we would do so, there were options on how we could display our research/answers like on myportfolio pages which the teachers had set up, on a prezi or on a poster, etc. We are now nearing the end of our research topic,mostof us just have to finish of those last questions.

By Jenna!

Science

In the last few days we have been doing science everyday. On the first day we did an experiment on which lolly will dissolve the fastest, we did this by sucking on them! Yesterday we did an experiment called the magic balloon where you mix warm water, yeast and sugar in a jar and the place a balloon on top, the balloon is supposed to inflate. For some of us this experiment went well but for some others it went badly as their balloon did not inflate. We will be carrying on with science for the rest of the week lucky us!

Inquiry

For the last few weeks we have been working on inquiries in small groups of four. In my group is Cassie, Christian, David and me! We did an inquiry on Uganda. We made a poster and filled in alot of My portfolio pages. Did you know that Uganda is landlocked and also it is a republic, it also has 8 times as many people as us! We have now just about finished.

Emily, room 5

Matariki concert

Yesterday it was the matariki concert at Tawa Intermediate school. The concert was made up of all the academies from the Intermediate performing the things they have been working on in their time on Wednesdays. It all went very well and from what I have heard it was very enjoyable, I certainly had fun. I was in the choir and we performed two songs and I am also in art academy but we did not perform, although our art was exhibited. My dad said that his highlight was Summer singing at the start he said she was amazing!

Emily, room 5