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Thursday, August 30, 2018

Cricket Fun

Cricket Fun


On Thursday Hayley came to school and showed us how to play cricket.





She taught us how to throw a ball properly and we could throw the ball at her!!


We also hit the ball off the tee.






We loved learning how to play cricket and one day we might be a White Fern or a Black Cap!!





Wednesday, August 15, 2018

Sunday, August 12, 2018

Even More Kitchen Chemistry

Today we made Unicorn Noodles!
First we cooked the red cabbage in some water.

The water had turned purple because the anthocyanin (colour pigment) came out of the cabbage while it was cooking.

Next we cooked some clear noodles in the cabbage water and guess what.........? 


The noodles turned purple too! 


We all took turns squeezing lemon juice onto the purple noodles. 





When the lemon juice mixed with the noodles they turned pink! 

We then added some baking soda to the purple noodles and they started to turn blue! 



At the end we added vinegar and those noodles turned violet!  




Here is a link to Nanogirl doing this experiment with some children.

Click here to watch the video.











Sunday, August 5, 2018

More Kitchen Chemistry

Today we did another experiment ....'The Balloon Inflator" .  We put some vinegar in the bottle and some baking soda in a balloon.  Next we stretched the ballon over the bottle.



When we lifted the balloon up the baking soda fell into the balloon and mixed together to make Carbon Dioxide.  That blew up the balloon!  


















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We are going to leave the balloon sitting on the bottle all night - I wonder what will have happened to the balloon in the morning?