5 weeks ago we planted our sunflower seeds.  We had pots of soil and made a hole for the seed.  We covered over the soil and gave it a good water.  Over the last few weeks we have been taking care of them by watering them everyday and making sure they had enough sunshine.  Ours grew really tall!  Adam’s was 77cm today when he took it home!  We are ready to take them home and we can’t wait to see who wins! 

Mini Megs.

Last month primary 3 were learning about biodiversity and endangered animals and decided to sponsor a kiwi as they are at risk of extinction.  We learned that biodiversity is all the wildlife in the world around us, from wildflowers and insects to mammals and birds.  Biodiversity is very important to our world and we learned that all species have as much moral right to exist as we do.

Kiwis are found in New Zealand and although it is a bird it is more like a mammal.  It has tiny wings, but cannot fly and they are nocturnal which means they come out at night and sleep during the day.  Our kiwi is called Lag and he was born in December.  Sadly their numbers are decreasing but if people continue to sponsor them hopefully this will turn the kiwi numbers around.

P3 have been learning about electricity in science over the last few weeks.  We learned that it is really important to keep safe around electricity and we made a poster to tell P2 about the dangers.  We put things like don’t touch a plug with wet hands and never stick your fingers in a socket on our posters.  We think they learned lots from our posters which was excellent.  By Rebecca, Jamie T, Jamie Mac and Dean.

  

We have been very busy trying to attract birds to the quiet area. We put lots of seeds and nuts out for them to eat and put up bird houses on the fence. Have you seen them? We are hoping to attract lots of different kinds of birds for our birdwatch which is happening this week.

Pylons :

Pylons hold the over head power lines that transmit electricity from the power station all over the country.

Power lines:

Power lines are hooked to the pylons to take the power from house to house city to city and country to country.

Power stations:

The power stations is where electricity is generated. Most power stations create electricity by burning fossil fuels.

Sub stations:

A substation reduces the volts from 33,000 volts to 240 volts if there were no substations there would be billons of deaths.

By Brandin

A circuit keeps on going round and around or it won’t work so it has to go in a circle or square or like those shapes.

In science we have been doing circuts. Things like drawing diagrams and learning how to build one. First at the start of term we learned the signs of the items which we are going to use. We learned the sings of moters,lights,buzzers,wires,battiries also a double one, bells and more.

Then we decided to actuly draw a diagram then make them. In our ones we included a bell, we coulden’t find buzzers but we will,battiries and a moter. Once we drew this it was time to get to busy and find all the parts.

We built the circut and somethings worked and some didn’t. We had fun and mabey next time we will do a bigger and better circut.

Below there are some quick facts :

* Everything must be connected to make it work.

* Two batteries are better than one.

Circuits must all be connected with wires. Everthing is powered by battery. You can use as much equipment as long as you have enough power ffrom the batteries.

We have learned how to draw the diagrams for the equipment that we use for building circuits. There are lots of different pictures for different items.

Last week we designed our own circuits then constructed them with the equipment that we needed.

There are much more facts but we don’t have time to list them all.

Not bad so far!  We’ll be looking at how electricity gets to our houses next.  Does anybody have any information to share with us?

Mr O.