Tip Top Factory Trip

One day I went to TIP TOP. I looked at how the ice cream was made.  We saw some of the machines making the ice cream.

The people that worked there switched there job every 15 minutes. If the ice cream is not tip top or it has something wrong with it they throw it away and feed it to the pigs.

They make the berries plump so when you bite into it you do not bite into a rock. We all had to stand sideways when we looked through the window. At the end we all got to have a ice cream and watched a movie about how tip top was made and what they do to make the ice cream. It was very very very very (you get the idea) very fun. The end.

By Joshua

Getting Ready For The Science Exhibition

Tongan Language Week

This week across New Zealand is Tongan Language Week. Here are some students from Meadowbank School teaching a few words in Tongan. Watch the video and have a go!

Cricket is the best Sport! by Hamish

Cricket

In my opinion cricket is the best sport because it's great for improving intelligence, timing, and arm skill.

Firstly, Cricket makes you intelligent because  you need to know when to run and what shot to play. It helps your timing. If you

hit too early or too late you'll miss it. But just on time? It`s perfect.And the very important skill to learn is hand and eye-coordination because to get a wicket, and the opposition out you can catch the ball.Catching includes timing and hand and eye-coordination at the same time.

Secondly, you have the legendary Cricket World Cup every four years. The current reigning champs are Australia. I love watching players like AB de Villiers (South Africa) and Martin Guptill (New Zealand). Plus I love the fact that you can have a turn at almost anything and verse any amazing team like India, New Zealand, and the Aussies. I love the exciting matches.

Thirdly, you can learn a range of techniques by practicing and getting fit. You don't even need to go to go to university because cricket would be your full time job! There's a lot of bowling techniques such as pace, spin, swing, leg break, and off break.

In conclusion I think cricket is the best sport to play because it is a great team sport.

By Hamish

Persuasive Writing - Sport by Angus

Sport

Hey did you know that every country has their own sport? Like New Zealand, we are great at rugby. Did you know that we have won the rugby world cup three years in a row? Thats amazing don’t you think? Now look at Beauden Barrett, Sam Cane, Kieran Read and all of the All Blacks, they are really fit. Sport really increases your chance of being fit.

Take baseball for an example, baseball is good for gross motor skills which means that you are using your arms and your legs. Sport is really fun and if people don’t play a sport help them by telling them how fun it is, how good it is for you, makes you fit.

Did you know that more people play a sport in the world that people don’t? Now do you want everyone in the world to play a sport I know that I would.

And if you have a friend that doesn't play a sport tell that they can play rugby, soccer, tennis, A.F.L and loads more.

So if you have a friend that doesn't play a sport well you know what to do, tell them how fun it is! And if you don’t play a sport go and find a sport that suits you!

By Angus.

Silouhette Art

Art

Room 37 have been painting sunsets and made silhouette. At the very top we put dark blue and then blended purple. We did the same with the pink, orange and yellow. Miss Steptoe told us to blend the colors together so it wouldn't look like block colors. We could pick where our silhouette were. People did the Sky Tower, Beehive, Empire State building and more.

Once Room 37 had done the silhouette and the reflection, we could pick how to do our lightning. We could use gold and purple. But some people had to go over our old lighting because it was too thick and the the silver looked like smoke.
By Carol.

Science Rotation in Room 31 - Forces

In Room 37 the Year four team have been doing a Science rotation. When Room 37 went to Room 31 we learnt about forces and pulls. The second time we did the rotation we made a marble track we learnt how the marble travels with the pushes and the pulls in my group the tape blocked the marble and the hill was too steep.

  

After we had made our tracks we looked at each others marble tracks but we only had a certain amount of time. So we had to make sure the marble went all the way through the marble track but we couldn't have the marble till the time was up which was quite tricky because we did not now what to fix and what not too.

by Zoe