science experiment

 

flower capillary action

On Wednesday Mum and I were chatting about daffodil day coming up and she said about an experiment that we could do with some of the flowers in the garden. When it stopped raining we went out and picked some for a vase. 

Mum said I needed to get 2 other glasses so we could put some in each. when we had done that I put some food colouring into the water. 

We talked about how flowers need water and how they get the water from the ground or in a vase. This is called capillary action. In flowers, there are thin tubes in the stems and the water goes up these to the flowers. When we put the flowers into the coloured water this is going to be sucked up.

this is a photo of the daffidol up close before we added some to the coloured water

After tea I had a look at the flowers. I noticed that the blue ones were really sucking the water up and you could see the tiny tubes in them turning blue already. The red ones not so much. We decided to add more colouring to the water to see if it made any difference. 

                         

These photo's I took before I went to bed. You can really see the blue coming through.

The photo's below are the next morning 

 

this is all the flowers together I like how you can deffinalty see the different colours and the veins in the petals.

I took this photo before bed on the second night after swapping one flower over to the other coloured water. this is the red flower to the blue coloured water and you can really see the different colours in the petals

                   

this was a fun experiment to do 

Weekly Challenge

Mrs Hickfords Weekly Challenge 

Mrs Hickford gave our class a weekly challenge. the rain has stopped me from getting outside to take a photo so mum and I decided to do the daffodil one. 

We had a look online and checked out how to make paper daffidols on you tube. there were so many videos it was hard to choose what to pick. Mum picked one and we started after looking in her box of craft stuff. We had to get the right colours for the flowers. 2 different coloured yellow and 1 orange is what we found. Mum went to the baking cupboard and got some cupcake wrappers as well for the middle of some the flowers. 

We started by making squares out of the paper and then folded them into a triangle we had to fold them again in half and then into quarters mum said this is using fractions and maths. once we had folded them enough we had to make a cut like a petal. it was really hard to cut the heavier cardboard but mum helped me. we unfolded the paper and they turned out like flower petals. to make some of the trumpets in the middle we cut circles and then cut that in half. cut zigzags and taped them together. WE glued all the petals together on top of each other. Mum used some curling ribbon to wrap the ice cream sticks to make them green for the stems of the flowers. We made two butterflies to go with the flowers.

 

                                                           

These are the flowers I liked the most. The butterfly is in the back I haven't coloured them in yet. I like the different styles of petals we were able to make by cutting the different ways.

We are going to find a vase and put them in it and leave it on the table 

Maths Whizz

       I have been doing maths and I have got 9 progressions so far. I have 79 minutes on maths whizz I like maths. I have learnt some factions, measures, and timed levels. I liked the addition levels. what was your most favorite maths?

beans

 Monday. In the morning I had to go to a meeting to see what we were going to do for the week. I have to do a journal about what I have been doing in lockdown. I have been practicing how to stack beans. I did bean stacking today it was so much fun.

 Monday. In the morning I had to go to a meeting to see what we were going to do for the week. I have to do a journal about what I have been doing in lockdown. I have been practicing how to stack beans. I did bean stacking today it was so much fun.

Holiday Day Writing

Holiday Day Writing

I did my holiday writing after we came back after school it was so much fun to write that writing. 

there are heaps of writing on the page there are 6 paragraphs in the writing. I learnt to put paragraphs into my story. I went to Christchurch with Hunter and my Eli's because it was hunter's birthday and he chose me to go with him. We stayed at Eli's house. it was a recount.