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.

Richard Pearse

Hi this is Madison, Anton and Daniel and we are doing a project on Richard Pearse. This is some of the information we gathered.

Richard Pearse was the first person to fly a plane. Richard was born on the 3rd December 1877 in Temuka, New Zealand. He died on 29th July 1952 at the age of 75 in Christchurch.

Richard Pearse was the first person to make a plane and fly it. He flew & landed a powered plane on 31 March 1903. He flew the plane 50 yards. He spent most of his lifetime building light, powerful aero-engines for his numerous attempts of flying.The last planes he made are in the museum of transport and technology in Auckland. It is probably impossible to establish without doubt if Pearse flew before the wright brothers.

On January the 1st Richard was admitted to a mental hospital, 28 days later he died. He died of a heart attack, he was never married. Now you know about Richard Pearse.

Archimedes

ARCHIMEDES

Archimedes was born in 287 B.C. in the port of Syracuse, Sicily in the colony of Magna Graecia. His father was Phidias, who was an astronomer but no one knows anything about him. Back then, with no paper or blackboards, Archimedes used dust, ashes or any other available surface to draw his pictures. He used to get so into his work that sometimes he forgot to eat. It is said that he drew figures on his body after having a bath. According to the Greek historian John Tzetzes, who was famous for his research on Byzantinne Greek era, Archimedes lived for 75 years.

Archimedes discovered pi. He invented the Archimedes screw - a screw-shaped machine that raised water from a lower to a higher level. Archimedes also invented the catupult, the lever, the compound pulley, and the burning mirror (a bunch of mirrors that burned the boots and ships of invading armies by using the sun's rays).

A sphere and cylinder were placed on the tomb of Archimedes at his request.

The last words attributed to Archimedes are "Do not disturb my circles" (Greek: μὴ μου τοὺς κύκλους τάραττε)

By Alesha, Meg and Dylan

Ernest Rutherford

My name is Jiahao and I researched Ernest Rutherford with Sophie and Jacob. This is what we found out about him:He was born in Brightwater on the 30 of August 1871 Nelson, New Zealand. He went to Havelock School and then the Nelson College for Boys and won a Scholarship to Canterbury College, University of New Zealand where he studied electrical technology.

He discovered two types of radioactivity, alpha decay and beta decay. He later identified the alpha particle as helium atom and he split the atom. He demonstrated that radioactivity was the disintegration of the atom into other types of atoms. He also invented a way to detect electromagnetic waves. Ernest Rutherford discovered that the nucleus of and atom has a positive charge and discovered the evidence to show the electron field surrounding the nucleus in an atom.

Rutherford blasted a narrow beam of alpha particles onto the gold foil, one atom thin. He first suspected that all of the alpha particles would pass through the thin foil, yet he realized that some alpha particcted back

Marie Curie

Hi, my name is Joshua. I was working with janie & hannah on marie curie. Marie Curie was the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. In 1891 she went to Paris to continue studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licentiateships in Physics and she gained her Doctor of Science Degree in 1903. In 1906 her husband Pierre Curie died in a tragic car accident and she then took his place as Professor of General Physics in Facility of Sciences, this was the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.

When Marie Curie realized that some uranium and thorium compounds had stronger radiation than uranium, she made the following hypothesis: there must be an unknown element in the compound, which had a stronger radiation than uranium or thorium. Her work got the interest of her husband, Pierre Curie, who stopped his own research on crystals and joined the research with his wife. And Marie was proven right: in 1898 the Marie and her husband discovered two new radioactive elements: radium (named after the Latin word for ray) and polonium (named after Marie's home country, Poland).

Radium: On 26^th December 1898, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie announced that they had discovered the existence of a second element, which they named ‘Radium’ for its intense radioactivity.

Polonium: In July 1898 the Curie’s published a paper together saying they had discovered a new element, which they called ‘Polonium’ in honor of her birthplace Poland.

RADIOACTIVITY: Radioactivity is important today because it is used to kill cancerous tissue.

POLONIUM: Polonium is important today because it can provide thermoelectric power in space satellites.

RADIUM: Radium is very important today because it is used in cancer treatment, medicines, preservatives in food and luminous pant.