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In  the Science topic Water Works we went on a water walk around our school to find places where water is used. We looked inside and outside. We found lots of places where we use water. Some of the places where it is used include toilets, for drinking, for air conditioners, for watering plants, for fighting fires and in cars. Do you know any other places where water is used in our school?

Making Towers with Spaghetti & Marshmallews on PhotoPeach

We discovered while working with cooked and uncooked spaghetti that it can’t be changed back once it has been cooked.

We made a word chain about how the spaghetti changed. 

Uncooked Spaghetti  – hard – sharp – cook – cooked spaghetti – sticky – soft – can’t be changed back.

Words we brainstormed to describe uncooked spaghetti are :

*straight     *hard     *dry     *breakable     *thin     *a little bendy     *rigid     *messy

Spaghetti

Spaghetti, spaghetti, all over the place,

Up to my elbows—up to my face,

Over the carpet and under the chairs,

Into the hammock and wound round the stairs,

Filling the bathtub and covering the desk,

Making the sofa a mad mushy mess.

The party is ruined, I’m terribly worried,

The guests have all left (unless they’re all buried).

I told them, “Bring presents.” I said, “Throw confetti.”

I guess they heard wrong

‘Cause they all threw spaghetti!

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Do you know what kinds of dinosaurs visited us?

What could we serve them for lunch?

Would our visitors be friends or enemies?

Now we can see the whole body of our newly hatched Parasaurolophus.

Can you see its duck bill?

Can you see its crest?

Can you see its two strong hind legs?

Do you think it would have been this colour?

How big is our Parasaurolophus? Can you measure it in centimetres?

Do you think a baby Parasaurolophus would have been this size when it hatched?

   By Thursday afternoon the dinosaur head was hatched.   

   The egg was very cracked.

   The children have identified the dinosaur as a parasaurolophus. This dinosaur was a 4 legged plant eater that often walked on two legs and was found on earth about 76 – 74 million years ago. It had a duck bill and a hollow crest on top of its head which  it used as a trumpet to make loud honking noises. 

I wonder how long it will take for the rest of the body to hatch out?

  Hudson brought a dinosaur egg to school for us to hatch.

We covered the egg with water at 9:oo on Monday morning.          

At home time on Monday we noticed a small crack had appeared in the shell.

On Tuesday morning the crack had got much bigger.

By hometime on Tuesday there was a hole in the egg.

Looking into the hole it looks a bit like legs.

             When do you think the dinosaur will hatch?                                    

                        Thank you Hudson for bringing such an interesting object to school for us to observe.         

              What kind of dinosaur do you think  will hatch?                       

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Do you know anything about dinosaurs?

Do you have a favourite dinosaur? Why is it your favourite?