Our class entered the Whitcoulls Kid's Top 50. We had to vote for our favourite books that we liked the best and say who the author was. Our whole class entered and we all learnt how to send an email. Everyone had three favourite books because we all like to read.
My first choice was "Winnie the Pooh" by AA Milne
My second choice was "Restless Spirit" by Suzanne Brocker
And my third choice was "Can't catch me" by Elizabeth Pulford
The prize was the Whitchoulls Kid's Top 50 books that were voted in by all the kids in New Zealand.
And I won 50 books for our library!!!
Mrs Dunn spread them out on the classroom floor and everyone started to read, it was so cool.
I can't believe that I won 50 books and everyone can't wait to get them out of the library.
We're going to try and read them all.
Jennifer Thomas

Aliens in space

We drew our aliens in paint from Microsoft works then we took a mugshot of our face and cut around it on the computer and copied it onto our picture in Powerpoint.

They look so cool!

Cassarndra, Sean, Remo.

BOTTLE ROCKETS - THE PINK PANTHER.

We used a plastic drink bottle and made it look like a rocket.

Then we got the ball pump and a stopper with a tube so we could pump air into the bottle.

We filled a third of the bottle with water and tightly fitted the stopper into the bottle. Then we sat it in an old box for the launch pad and pumped the air in.

At first it was easy to pump and then it got harder, and harder -

Mrs Dunn said "Keep pumping, go for it Shanae!"

Then "Whoosh!" - the rocket went way up and we got some water showered down on us.

Shanae

"HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM"

We had some trouble with the tube letting the air out. We needed

tape up the tube so no air could escape, then it went really well.

Also our stopper needed to fit tighter so it sometimes let air out too.

It was best when we used about a quarter of a bottle of water.

HOW DO BOTTLE ROCKETS WORK ?

The pump forces air into the bottle. Soon, there's so much air inside the

bottle that it pushes out the cork. The water inside the bottle shoots out so fast

that it pushes the bottle in the opposite direction (up into the sky)

Room 3 made pop-rockets. First we got a toilet roll and cut it to make it smaller .We cut a circle out then cut it to the middle and made a cone for a lid then we put tape so it will stick together.Then we made wings on them [we had three wings on them] .Then we painted them all different .The next day we set them off with a borocca tablet and a splash of water.They did not go that far.

The gas that came off the borocca tablet and made the pressure, when the pressure was too great it pushed off the lid and the rocket popped off - this is called thrust. If you didn't put the lid on properly it didn't work because it had no thrust.

We found the smallest pop rockets went the furtherest and the film canister with no decorations went the furtherest. It worked best if you just put a little bit of water in covering the pop rocket, if you put too much water in they didn't go so high.

They were fun cause you never knew when they were going to pop!

Larissa Came