Room 5 Sasa :)

Boat making

On Friday 7^th Room 5 went over to Nayland Primary’s school pool to race the boats we had made in class. After reading a Journal Story called The Boat Race Mrs Parker said we would have to make our own boats and race them just like what they did in the story. In the story it showed lots of different ways to make boats move, there were ones that used baking soda and vinegar, balloons, wind up propellers and more. We were in groups of 1-4 and got given a few weeks to make the boats. It was quite difficult to make the boats and it took a lot of planning but in the end someone of them looked amazing! Then on Friday we went to go race them. The balloon method worked very well, which was the method Indigo, Jaani and Jacob used and they won, because their boat travelled the furthest. Some people’s boats moved but only went round in circles and sadly for some people theirs didn’t really move at all. Overall it was a really fun challenge and it was exciting to learn about all the different ways you could make boats move without a motor. All of Room 5 had a great time!

Written by Hannah Sloane

Barnicote

We are all walking up Barnicote on Wednesday. This is going to be another great day out :) In order for everyone to be comfortable, please make sure that your child has everything listed on the gear list below

Our trip to Mt Robert

Hangi

PYTHAGORAS

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, born on the island of Samos. They can date his life back to between 580-520 BC As a young man he moved to the Greek city of Croton, where he developed a philosophical and religious school which made many outstanding contributions to mathematics, astrology, and music.

Pythagoras is most famous for his Pythagorean Theory relating the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.

The Pythagoreans felt that the physician role was helping the body to be properly strung, and tuned to a certain pitch. It is believed the Pythagoras and his followers were vegetarians. The Pythagoreans believed that animals and man were on the same journey together, and that man was only a little further along on this path than his animal companions.

They believed that that souls from one human or animal are transferred to a new human or animal after death.Pythagoras favorite colour was purple.That is where they got the national simbol for gay.He was gay.But he had 5 children with his wife (Theano).Pythagoras of samos or pythagoras the samian,pythagoras patel was called 1 of the greatest mathematicians on earth.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Hi I'm Georgia and I am working with Jaani and Alex. For our project, we are working on Leonardo Da Vinci. We had four weeks to do this and now we will show you some fact's about him.

Facts:

Leonardo Da Vinci may well have been the greatest inventor in history, yet he had very little effect on the technology of his time. Da Vinci drew sketches and diagrams of his inventions, which he preserved in his notebooks, but either he lost interest in building them or was never able to convince one of his wealthy friends to finance construction of his designs. As a result, almost none of da Vinci's inventions were built during his lifetime. And, because he never published his diagrams, nobody else knew about them until his notebooks were discovered long after his death.

That's a pity, because da Vinci's designs were spectacularly ahead of his time. If they had been built, they might have revolutionized the history of technology, though many of them may have been impossible to build with the tools available in the 15th and 16th centuries. In recent years, however, engineers have begun to construct models of da Vinci's amazing machines and most of them actually work.

His most famous inventions:

Da Vinci is most famous now for his inventions: his bicycle, airplane, helicopter, and parachute were all some 500 years ahead of their time. However, he also showed remarkable insight in the world of science. The only remains of this work are his notebooks, now among the most valuable documents in the world. The thousands of surviving pages reveal the most eclectic of minds. He wrote and drew about subjects like geology, anatomy, flight, gravity and optics, often going from subject to subject on a single page in his left-handed mirror writing.

This is his Parachute that he invented.

This is Leonardo Da Vinci.