The beginning of 2018!

Well another year has started and what a busy few weeks it has been. We have been very busy practicing for our athletics and swimming events. We know all the practices will pay off when we have our athletics day this Friday (23rd Feb) and our swimming sports day (15th March).

 





This week we welcomed Ari-Elle to Room 7. Ari-Elle and her family have moved to Lawrence from Auckland. We hope she enjoys her time at LAS.

Last week we did a science experiment that involved mixing cornflour,water and food colouring together to see what would happen. Each student wrote down their hypothesis, what they think was going to happen, and after the experiment we discussed who's hypothesis was correct. 

On Wednesday and Thursday afternoons this week we participated in a STEM activity in groups. STEM stands for; science, technology, engineering and maths. This week's challenge was to use a range of materials to make an aircraft that will fly the furtherest. The materials that were available to groups were: 6 straws, 6 pieces of A4 paper, 2 paper clips, 1 metre of cellotape, some blu-tack. All groups had to use the 6 straws but the other equipment was optional to use. 

The winning group's plane flew over 4 metres. Check out the photo of the distances thrown for each group.