Is Earth like a hard-boiled egg?

We are learning about what the Earth is like on the outside and the inside. We used hard-boiled eggs as mini-models for the earth. We got to design our own continents and islands on the outside of the egg shell. At the end of the experiment we got to eat the egg! The egg was very awful!!! 

Here is the link to the science experiment we wrote with the teacher.

Structure of the Earth

Structure of the Earth Facts

We are learning about the structure of the Earth.

I learnt that the Earth is made up of 4 layers. They are the

CRUST

MANTLE OUTER CORE

INNER CORE

Facts about each layer:

Crust - The crust is the thinnest layer.The Earth is also the 1st layer.

Mantle - The mantle is the thickest layer of the earth and it is soft squishy rock
because it is hot.

Outer Core -is the third layer of the Earth and is under of the Mantle. Also it is very very hot at the
Outer Core it is 4000-6000'C totally liquid and it has some rocks.

Inner Core - The core is very very hot it is 6,000 Hot. The core is solid ball from all the other layers

Our group -  is Ariana Teziah Hayley.

First we created a 3D image of the earth using …..

We then cut the shape in half to show the different layers.
After waiting for it to dry, we identified each layer by painting them in different colours.

Below are some pictures of our work.

Mixed-ability Maths

Kia ora,

For our first term we have been doing some mixed-ability maths groups. 

What I liked about mixed-ability groups is that it helps us with our maths and that with the groups it can help us make more connections from other people in maths.

What I enjoyed about mixed-ability groups is that when we work together we can accomplish lot more than we think we can. 

What I thought was difficult was when we had to change groups because you would not know who would be in your group.

I really like working in mixed- ability groups. I liked it a lot it was fun. We got to learn about more maths.

Overall, I think that when we do more mixed-ability groups I think that we will be more on to it.

Ariana's Maths Understanding Term 1

Kia ora bloggers,
 My name is Ariana. For this week we have been doing addition problems. We were learning how to turn a tricky addition problem into an easier one by using equal adjustments. This strategy helps you change the numbers from tricky numbers to tidy numbers and then it is easier to add them. 
I thought it was hard trying to answer the thousands questions. 
I thought it was easy trying to answer the hundreds problems.
For some of the problems, I had to use place value partitioning as well to get the answers.
 Here is my slide I made that has my learning on it....

Imovie The living world

This term so far we have been doing all sorts of living world activities. Georgia, Saphera and I have been working on a movie. It is for our reading activities and our learning about our living world. What we had to do was learn about MRS GREN and make a movie that showed each of the characteristics.

M is for Movement
R is for Respiration
S is for Sensitivity


G is for Growth
R is for Reproduction
E is for Excretion
N is for Nutrition

 It was so fun. We love the living world.

The Living World Unit sutdy

Hello,

 This is my living world slideshow. For the next 5 or 6 weeks we will be choosing our own activities to learn about the living world. We did a multiple intelligences test to see what kind of learner we were. My top three ways of learning intelligences are;
 1.musical
 2. kinesthetic
 3.naturalist
 I am looking forward to It was interesting...

Gold fish MRS GREN

Hi my name is Ariana.We have been learning this today and yesterday. We were told we had to choose a life form and relate it to MRS GREN.
My favourite part was how a goldfish moves in the water.
We could do any animal we wanted to do it was easy and bit hard at the same time.