Makey Makey STEAM

In The Kahikatea Hub, we have been working hard every Monday and Friday afternoon making different things for STEAM(Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) IN the afternoons when we do STEAM, we make different things that contain conductive materials. Conductive materials are materials that will produce electricity, we also use a website called Scratch.
Some of the things we have made have been Instruments, Controllers and an alarm system.
We use alligator clips and a Makey Makey Kit

The conductive play dough for a creative keyboard/piano

Working out where the clips go

Another Keyboard/piano

Working together on a musical instrument. TEAM WORK!

Another outstanding piano

Variety Show!

                       PCS Variety Show!

Playing games while waiting for the Variety Show.

          The Senior School singing their rewritten version of How Bizarre, in front of our School.

                       Jasonna Luu performing a gymnastics act in front of the whole School.

Kahikatea Hub's Dancers and Singers showing of their voices and moves!

The Kahikatea "Komedy" group makes everyone laugh with their jokes

Room 15 and 16 performing the color song.

This is the Kauri Hub's Dance Battle between girls and boys

The Variety Show was very fun for all the students, we got lots of positive feedback. Adults enjoyed the show as well as children. We raises a lot of money to pay for EOTC.

Our Variety Concert was a success and most of the parents and families enjoyed seeing their students on stage performing a show they had put together. We raised around $6,000 and that was enough to pay off our bus ride for our end of the year.

Getting ready for our Variety Show

The students at PCS have been working hard for the Variety Show that will be held in Week 9. Shaye was our winner for creating the best Admission Ticket. On the Top left hand corner are some of our dancers. The top right hand corner are our singers. Bottom left are the #JJSquad short for Jump Jam.  We are looking forward to performing infront of the community.

Anzac Puzzles

This is a Learn Create Share that Bella, Lara and Seane worked on.
The purpose was to create a puzzle for the juniors to play with.
The theme was ANZAC, because it had been ANZAC day recently.

Ready For the Explosion!

This is a volcano made by Abby, Ana, Samantha and Mehakpreet.
To make their volcano waterproof, they got clear varnish and that also makes it very shiny.
To get the shape they glued down a bottle to a piece of cardboard and then glued strips of cardboard to the bottle and Paper mache  it.
Then painted it.

This Volcano was made by Lyric and Mark.
First they put a bottle on a piece of cardboard They used  newspaper and cardboard to paper mache it.
Then they painted it. 

This Volcano was made by Emma and  Arpit with the help of Julie
it didn't go as planned
So first they made a small cone out of card then they rolled up some cardboard and stuck the cone on, around this stage it looked a little weird but the they attached the volcano to a base with cardboard strips. After they Paper Mached it,Painted it and put trees on, then it was ready. They called it mount doom.

This Volcano was made by Shaye and Maddie
They made a volcano out of a coke bottle, cardboard, duck tape, paint, newspaper to  paper mache their volcano and hot glue.
 First they took a coke bottle and hot glued it to some cardboard and made a structure. 
 Next they started to paper mache it. They did the same with the mini volcano.
Step 3: Then they painted it with brown paint and a mixture of orange and red.
And they were done

This volcano was made by Bella, Ruby, Loveleen and Amanda.

First they got a cone and wrapped cardboard around it to make the shape. Then they paper mached it with newspaper and a special kind of glue. Then they left it outside for 25 minutes to let it dry. 

They then got some cardboard and stuck a small bottle to it.

They put the volcano paper mache around it.  Then painted it.

We used newspaper to make bushes around it.

Done

This volcano was made by Harman, Slade and Dylan
first we glue tacked the bottle to the cardboard after we cut out 4 stripes of cardboard and glue tacked it to the bottle
then we started to paper mashaye and glued the paper to the bottle in a volcano shape then we finished then we sarted to paint it and that was it.

They used a 1.5 liter bottle of Fanta and a packet of Mint flavored Mentos.

They used five layers of Paper to use as the shell of the volcano, then added brown and blue paint to make the volcano look as effective as possible, as they had the outlook of the volcano being in the water. Then added red and orange paint to paint the 'lava' on.

They used a cone for a template and paper mashed it. They Painted it with brown paint mixed with red paint. They
poured diet coke in the bottle and threw 7 mentos in it.

This Volcano was made by Grace with some help from Haley.
First they cut out their cardboard base,
and then they glued a cup down onto the cardboard piece,
Next they started building clay around the bottom area's of the volcano,
Then they cut off the top of the cup and then 
The next thing they did was they started to build up the clay around the cup making a volcano shape.
Then they painted all of it.  

3 States of Matter

Did you know that the particles in solid are very close together so they can form a solid shape? That's what Tara from Room 4 learnt. This is Tara's awesome animation about the 3 common states of matter. Tara really hopes her information on her animation taught you something.

Our New Flag

The Zoo Trip

When I turned back in time…

I am 10 years old, and I am standing in the middle of the Auckland Zoo.

The tunnels are crowded with excitement and people are crawling.

The noise is as quiet as a mouse & sometimes I want to scream to break the silence.

Every minute there is a noise of something… Something about to happen.

It is nearly the end of the tunnel.

It is getting brighter now.

The tunnels are getting shorter & shorter by the minute like a candle burning away.

Everything is light & bright.  Fresh & clean & clear again.

Katie (Bella’s Mum) calls from the other side “Come on girls” and we run to join her.

We stand with our mouths wide open, while we are pointing at the Meerkats and continuously going “Ooh,”Trying to catch their attention, but it never works.

I love the Meerkats.

Written by Lucy

Plants

 Our topic this term is land,Sea and Sky. Lately we have been doing things around our topic like writing about plants. Mrs P gave us a model to follow called blackbird. When we wrote the poem we had to describe a dead plant I chose a flower. This is my poem.
Kaia

Room 7's Matariki Art

In room 7 we did some art for matariki. The Korus in this art represent how many people are in each of the students whanau.  This Art work was inspired by an idea from Pinterest and we created the meaning for ourselves following the Seven Sisters story.  We used pastels and looked at warm and cold colours.  We weaved it using kebab sticks.

Video was put together by Jordan.

Topic Inquiry Presentations

Our presentations set up in the auditorium for our whanau to view at 3 Way Conferences.

The Watusi

In room 7 we had to use descriptive and instructional writing we did it around the topic we are doing arts through the decades.

We made Ice cream

In room 4 we have been learning about emulsions and since ice cream is the worlds most popular emulsion is ice cream we got to make ice cream! We were in groups of four and we had a competition for the best ice cream and my group won, in ours we put Oreos, sprinkles and chocolate chips. Some even said it tasted better than store bought ice cream. It's really fun and easy to do and the recipe is there so you should try it.

Kitchen Chemistry

Our topic at PCS at the moment is kitchen chemistry. Room 4 has been learning about emulsions which is when two substances are immiscible or they don't mix an emulsion is when one of the two substances are bubbles in the other such as if you mix water and oil. Do you know what the worlds most common emulsion is?

How to make a paper folded box

We have been learning about packaging for our craft market that's coming up and we found how to do one without cutting or gluing. We have been practicing them and this is how you make one.

Holiday Challenge

Right girls and boys here is some fun activities and competition for you to do in the holidays. Please share to Mrs Paniora. You could get together with your friends, or family. The one who does all of the challenges can name our new fish. Created by Noah, Supina, Jason, Amie, Lucy & Zac

Time Management

Our presentation is about time management and what it looks like. We have made this checklist to remind ourselves how to manage our time effectively. Do you manage your time effectively on a device? or complete all your tasks within a time frame?

Cyclone Winston

We have been learning about Cyclone Winston because we had a mufti day last Friday. This is what we learnt about Cyclone Winston. Fariha & Biqi

Fire

 

I did some writing about what fire is and if she was a male or a female.we followed a model that Mrs p gave us then we had to get into groups to make a power point to record us reading our poem that we writ on each slide then i had to find picture that represents fire to show everyone what fire can do to you.

What is Technology?

Created with Padlet

For our topic we are doing a technology unit and we are thinking of a need for our class. We are trying to think of something we need to make our lives easier. So we watched a video to do with Technology.