Coat Hanger Catapults - Prototype 3

Well first you need to have a coat hanger, a plastic spoon and two normal rubber bands. Bend the coat hanger so it looks a bit like wings poking upwards. Then put your arm in the middle of both the wings so it's straight. Bend the front part of it into a 'v' shape. Then once you've finished the wire body, get the first rubber band and put it over each arm and stick the spoon through it and twist/wind it up in the direction away from the hook. Once you have turned the rubber band with the spoon in it as far as you want you need to slide the first rubber band down further so that the second rubber band can go about 2 inches. Wind up the second rubber band with your hands but still leave a hole in the middle for the spoon head to poke through.  

Once you've finished that you are ready to fire.  We took our catapult to our school hall and brought jellybeans marshmallows with us to fire.  The first marshamallow went about 6 metres. The jellybeans rolled too much so we had to mark the distances from were they landed. 

The best bit was probably eating the giant jellybeans after we fired them.  Our group only got one jellybean so we had to split it in half and share it.

By Arlo

Catapult Craziness

When we made our popsicle stick catapults we fired Jaffas and marshmallows in the hall. We lined up along the blue line . Mr Burt stretched out the tape measure from the blue line to see how far they went. 

A lot of jaffas rolled a long way. Some jaffas cracked into little pieces when they hit the floor. Mine cracked into 5 little pieces, and mine cracked into thirds.

I think the popsicle stick ones fired further than the peg catapult because the lever was longer and it had more power because it was bendy. A lot of them hit the wall so we couldn't tell whose went the furthest. Others hit the ground and rolled but no one measured from where it hit. They measured from where they stopped rolling to.

By Lily and Amelia

Ah, Jordan! It's a hard life isn't it?! Room 9 misses you. Have fun in Dream World. We launched our "Humpty Dumpty" eggs yesterday. Made a real mess but I will let the kids blog you on that. Glad to hear you got there safely.

Miss Moorhouse and class 

PRODUCTION OF THE POPSICLE STICK CATAPULTS

This afternoon we started making our popsicle stick catapults in 

groups of three. They are much trickier to make than the peg 

catapults. We did a lot of gluing and taping. There were so many 

instructions we had to read them off the projector in Room 1!

Looking at the prototype the teachers made it has a lot more 

power than our peg ones.

We are about half way through making them. We will finish them tomorrow and hopefully launch our jaffa lollies from them 

after that.

By Phereyn.

LEARNING IN ROOM 9!

I just want to say how thrilled I am with all you guys. I was so impressed when a teacher came in and asked you what a first design was called. About 10 of you knew it was called a prototype and remembered this from their chapter book reading tasks you did three weeks ago. Good to see the information is sticking and useful!

Your spelling results from last weeks test have been awesome! Some of you have improved by up to two year levels in one term! Kudos to you! I'm also thrilled to say that all those spelling below their age level made a huge jump, too. With PERSEVERANCE as a key for learning comes PROGRESS, and that is what we are looking for! Keep up the fantastic work.

You have all come up with fantastic array of project topics for the term 3 Science Fair. I can't wait to see the results from your experiments! All very exciting! 

Miss Moorhouse

MARSHMALLOW PEG CATAPULTS

Room 9 have been busy little bees making  peg  catapults and firing marshmallows. First we had to take a guess if the super pegs or the power pegs would go further.

We made a catapult by gluing the peg and the wood together. We glued the little block of wood on top of it. Then we glued the iceblock stick on top of it. And the milk bottle top on top of that. 

We loaded them up with marshmallows and fired them. Our

 partners measured them to see how far they would go.

They did it two groups at a time. We found out that super pegs went further than the power pegs because they had a tighter, stronger spring in them. Arlo and Davey's catapult went the furtherest.  Me and Amelia got 1 metre something, and me and Izzy got 2 metres something as our shortest shot. The best bit was eating them after we fired them!  By Asha and Lily

  

FUN FRIDAY SCIENCE

Every Friday R9 are having fun in science. These are some of the things we have done. We poured warm water into freezing cold dry ice then it steamed up so fast and so hight it was unbelievable! Sterling came round and put food colouring and dishwashing liquid in. When he put the liquid in it started bubbling up like a corn cob. You could catch it in little cups. And so fun! 

Another thing we did was Rockets. We made paper rockets to see how far they could fly. We also did, another day of pa

per rockets. Last Friday we made them. We tested them by putting them on a pipe. H

e pushed a pump and button thing and then it went flying. Arlo, Liam and Jack won out of the class. They won cos' theirs went the furtherest.  This friday that I'm talking about we tested them at lunch time to see which class had made the best one. Room 9 didn't win. It was another class. You will hear about them more in the next part of the true story. 

 Today at lunch the science man tested the rockets on the wooden platform. I saw one and it went really high but it didn't come back. It went over the school fence in pieces!  Sterling the science man did his one and it went real far over 

the fence.   

Today we did electricity. He threw party popper confetti over the table. Then he got a pipe and started rubbing it with some kind of rag. When he took it off he waved it over the table and the paper bits attached to the pipe. That was called static electricity.

Then we did these little set circuits but we couldn't get ours to work. Some people made electricity out of lemons, some just used wires. Some used a battery, another had some kind of light and Melanie's had cars. we had the radio that didn't work. We can't wait for next week!

By Hannah.D Jordan.L

THE SPENDING SPREE

Our Room 9 Pizza competition winners Emma F, Izzy and Cinamin with 

their "just desserts".  They spent Wednesday afternoon shopping at New 

World with their $50 prize voucher. They even managed to squeeze in 

some treats into their goodie bags for the head cook, the judge and their 

teacher!  Well done girls. You deserved it! 

Pizza Making

Last Thursday we made pizza's. Each group created and designed a pizza in the Clifton Terrace staff room. We all brought our own ingredients. After morning tea the class started making them. Our group the Veggie Deluxe went up at 12:00.  

With only ten minutes to make it we had to work fast!! We got our base, then  spread it with plum sauce.We put the purple onion rings on top.  We grabbed the blue cheese and it kind of crumbled when we tried to grate it so in the end we gave up and just crumbled it. We tried cutting the broccoli but Izzy did them in huge, massive chunks so they didn't cook as fast. Then we sprinkled the blue cheese on the pizza then we forgot the capsican so we chopped it up and placed it on top. Then it was ready to cook. 

Glenys carefully picked them up and put it on an oven tray then placed it in the oven. After they were cooked  Glenys scooped up the pizza and put it in our pizza box then Miss Moorhouse took it down to our judge Mr Wemyss. Then after lunch Mr Wemyss announced the winner Target pizza won the most creative box but over all Veggie Deluxe won with the score of 92 out of 100. The winner won a 50 dollar voucher for New World.

By Izzy, Cinamin and Emma.