Whisper Dishes By Maya

When we went to the Faraday centre we had  been learning about sound. When we had finished in the first room we went to the second room. Our group had been doing the whisper dishes. It was cool and I was on one side and sylvia was on the on the other side. I think how the whisper dishes work is your voice goes in the circle and rebounds back to the other one.

Telephones by Hine and Alex

How do string telephones work and how do they relate to olden day telephones?

We did this experiment to see how our voice turned into vibrations.
The string has to be straight so the vibrations can travel through the string, and if the string isn’t straight or someone’s touching it, will absorb the vibrations. And if it’s around a corner it still want work.

We decided to have a four-way conversation to see if it worked. We tried to wrap one string around the middle of the other string. It didn’t work because it cut all the other vibrations off to the other people.

After a while we softly put one string gently on top of the other, so it touched a little too. So the vibrations could go in every direction, so the others could hear.

So we found out that four-way conversations could work. We want to find out if six-conversations could work too.

Olden/Modern day telephones.

Olden telephones work different to modern day telephones. Olden day telephones have changed past a century, you used to move the big dialling circle to make a call. Olden day telephones take up more space than modern telephones.

Olden/Modern telephones transmit your voice as vibrations into the other persons telephone, but it’s not actually your voice that has ended up on the other telephone. Your vibrations travels through the wires and changes your voice.

Modern telephones are slimmer and have improved the age of the shape of olden day telephones. Now the modern telephones have changed not having an antenna on top of it, to get a signal.

So now you know how, Olden day telephones and modern telephones compare against each other.

How do you play bottle music and how does it work?

You have to have a bottle to play the music. You blow on top of the bottle so it makes a sound and it makes a huge vibration that bounces off the glass and comes out the top.

Some people in our class decided to fill bottles up with different amounts of water to make different pitch’s.
We used some metal strikers to hit the bottles and jars to make a tune even a rhythm.

Some people changed the amounts of water for the pitch to work and it was fun at the same time.

By Hine and Alex

Record player by Michelle

Record players were made in the olden days but these days we have DVD players. DVD players can show videos and sound but record players can only play sound.How does sound work on a record player?

The record player is a rectangular prism and there is a record in the record player. The bumps in the grooves are like a gravel road so when the needle hits the bumps the needle vibrates then the vibrations travel up the needle into the horn then the horn amplifies the vibrations so then we can hear sound.

So now you know how a record player makes sound.

Confidence Course, by Jasmine

At year  6 camp theres a confidence course which is really cool.
 My favourite is the wire line that you walk on. It was hard to jump over the wooden wall, so lots of people just walked straight past it.
It was funny on the rigging - some peolple were trying to get up but couldn't. We were neally falling off the rigging - it was so fun. It was scary one night when we played fright night in the bushes. It was dark, it was quiet, it was SCARY! Beyonce and I were so freaked out for a while. Then a teacher came and it was time to go and get ready for a shower. Oh no!


From Jasmine

First hockey Game of the Season! by Alex

20.5.13
Last Saturday we had our first hockey game. When I got there I saw our team watching a game. When we got on the turf Lee hit the ball.The game was on.
I got the ball quite a lot but Brook scored all our goals.The score was five to us and 8 to Taradale Primary. I play centre back and Brook got player of the day.
By Alex

Porritt Bear, by Manaia

Today we had to say good bye to Porritt Bear, and give him back to Mr Ginns for assembly.
We had Porritt Bear for a week. On Wednesday it was "Wacky Wednesday"  and Porritt Bear wore Jasmine's wig and wore his top the wrong way round.

Ngamoko By Cairo

OMG! I'm so tired. We all went  down to have breakfast. Then we got into the bus and drove to Nga moko mountain. We saw that it was so big. Bigger than a giant's foot. Hurry take the photo already.
 We started to walk up the hill.
"I got sore feet!" shouted  Sylvia. Really, Sylvia.
It took us hours to get to the top but we saw  trees, rocks, mud and last of all lots of slimy dirt. Yuck. Finally we got between the mountains and we found out that we had to climb another one. We all gasped. Hours later we got to the top. YAY! We all shouted. Now its time to eat our lunch. After we ate our lunch we went back down the mountain. What an awesome day. Oh no my feet hurt!

Starting out

Lunch at the top

Looking at the view