Strand L3! Oranges

 Oranges!

My favourite workshop is Strand. I like strand because we get to do these really cool things; measurement, math, predictions and so much more. But today, it was about measurement and oranges! I will tell you why.

Last week we learnt about a man called Mr. Archimedes and his bath. He would fill the bath to the very top with water then hop in, and it overflowed, he didn't know why? We had a vase in our class that we put water in, we then put in an orange. We figured out why the water came up, because the pressure of the orange pushed the water up! This is what I had to do, (it's a picture by the way)

Our Relievers

 Our Relievers

Yay relievers today, I love when we have relievers because we normally do art. This time we did do art, Room 1 did Picasso and Room 2 did Sandra Silberzweig art, but I'm in Room 1 so I will tell you about the picasso art.

We grabbed a piece of paper and a vivid we weren't allowed to have another piece of paper or use pencil. We started with the face, the face that I did was a weird face but I was fine with that. After the face we had to draw a line that looked like it was the side of a face. Then we had to choose a nose, lips, ears, eyes also for the eyes they didn't have to be the same eye, that was all for our face. After all of that we had to do the hair mine was good until I wanted to do a beanie and after the actual hat of the beanie I decided I didn't like it.  But I had to roll with it and just made it into hair, you can hardly tell.  Then we had to colour the face and hair, put the paper on the back of the black paper, then do the background and were done.

Now I will show you a photo of my picasso art... 

That was our reliever day!

Beach clean up!!

 Beach clean up!!

It's Enviro Action day today! I wonder what we're doing. If you don't know what action day is I will tell you.  Enviro Action day is where we do some action for our community, I like it because I do it with the class and my friends, also I just find it fun to do. Now for the story!

Dinnggg the bell went for school, I felt so excited. Koka Pip said we were going to the beach and we were going to pick up rubbish. We had to get into groups of 3, I was with my friend Lila and my other friend Betsy, we had to grab Lila's bucket for the rubbish to go in. We walked down to the beach and off we went.

I found out that it was a competition so I was excited! We walked from our beach that we normally go to, to the Surf Club, we found so much. Then we walked to the path under the bridge near Hamanatua and we found a bit of rubbish, so I was happy because it meant more rubbish in our bucket and Hamanatua was more clean. 

We walked back to school and we got a sheet, it was to check off how much rubbish we got. The group that I was in got quite a lot of rubbish. Then we put our rubbish into the right bin and we went to morning-tea. At the end of the day we found out who won, it wasn't our team,😒 but I was fine with that, I'm just happy we found heaps of rubbish!

That was our beach clean up!