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Tongan Language Week

Malo e lelei! This week is Tongan Language Week! We celebrate all our wonderful Tongan families at Trentham School and their beautiful language.

The theme of this year’s Tonga Language Week is Fakakoloa ‘o Aotearoa ‘aki ‘a e faiva ‘a e Tonga – Enriching Aotearoa with our Tongan Arts.

Enriching Aotearoa with our Tongan Arts

Tongan Language Week

Daffodil Day

Thanks for your generous support today!

Trentham School raised $332.90

We'll done to the Kaiarahi!

Buddy Day

Room 6 has signed up to be a Buddy Creator to support Buddy Day on Friday 13 November. The idea is that we create a buddy which is 'adopted' to raise awareness, start conversations and drive change about the role every adult plays in the lives of kids- from preventing child abuse to providing great environments for kids to flourish.

Find out more about Buddy Day on www.buddyday.org.nz

Let us introduce you to Aroha! She is a Cook Island European girl who is fun, helpful, sporty,creative, relaxed and does what is right. Kia Orana !

Fractions

Today we started learning about fractions!

Sounds Amazing

Today we visited Expressions again to see the exhibition 'Sounds Amazing'. It got us wondering about how sound travels, what it travels through, how fast it travels, what vibrations are etc.
Thanks to everyone who helped and for the wonderful job 'Expressions' did in hosting us and providing a fun activity at the end. Everyone got to make a small vibrating toy using 2 iceblock sticks, tape and balloons.

Egg Float

Aim	We want to find out whether things float better in salt water or plain water.
Hypothesis	I think that the water will stay on top of the salt water but when you put the egg in it will mix.
Equipment	What we need: One egg Water Salt A tall drinking glass
Method	What we will do: Pour water into the drinking glass until it is about half full. Stir in lots of salt (about 6 tablespoons) Carefully pour in plain water until the glass is nearly full (be careful not to disturb or mix the salty water with the plain water). Gently lower the egg into the water and watch what happens.
Results	What happened: We weren’t allowed to touch the water so we lowered the egg gently so once the egg was touching the top of the water, then I let it go. The egg stopped going down once it got to the middle. The egg stopped where the salt water was so it looked like it was floating.
Conclusion	We found out that salt water is denser than normal water and things will float on salt water and not on normal water like how people float on the dead sea that's because of the salt so that's why the egg can float on the salt water.
Science Idea	What is the scientific reasoning? Oscar's reason There is water on the top and salt water at the bottom and water pushes it down and salt water pushes it up so the egg stays in between but we all failed and mixed it (:. Manish‘s reason Well the salt makes like a salt surface for the egg because since the salt is around the middle it is making like a surface for the egg and then water is at the the top so the egg would float around the middle and that is why it makes it float.