Room16

Friday, June 8, 2012

Our Little Hedgehog

We found a very cute baby hedgehog stuck in our drain pipe!

So, we rang Dugan to come and rescue him!

Dugan had to problem solve how to get him out,

he even tried using a vacuum cleaner to suck him up!

However...

He eventually managed to pull him up, very slowly and carefully.

He was all scrunched in a little ball.

Dugan told us this was because he was very scared.

We could see his little nose twitching!

Can you see his tiny nose and eyes?

Look at his little paws!

What a cute baby.

Plants make their own food. They take water from the ground through their roots. They take a gas called carbon dioxide from the air. They turn water and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen.
Plants use sunlight to make their food, this gives leaves a green colour.

Some leaves turn red, brown and yellow.

Do you think that green leaves could have all these colours inside the leaf?

We did an experiment to find out?

Step 1:
Collect 2 different green leaves and 2 different leaves that have started to change colour.

Step 2:
Chop them up into small piece and put them in separate small jars. Cover them with Isopropyl liquid and put a lid on. (You must get and adult to help you with the Isopropyl liquid)

Step 3:
Place the jars in a shallow tray containing 3 cm of hot water. Leave for 30 minutes.

Step 4:

Remove jars from water and uncover. Place a strip of filter paper into each jar so that one end is in the liquid. Leave for 1 hour.

What colours do you think will be on the filter paper?

Try our experiment and send us a comment

telling us what you found!

Puddle Writing

Puddles from Ham East on Vimeo.

When I went to see Mum, I stepped in the puddles. I was running. I was laughing and laughing and Mum was laughing too. My whole family was laughing because I fell in the puddle. I got out of it so I could get dry. Dad didn’t see the puddle and he landed in it. I laughed and laughed too!

by Aotea

I jumped into the puddles and they were white, black and grey. It made me wet and it was cold. I kept jumping and it made me wet again. It was raining in the puddles and there were little circles in the puddles.

by Paige

I splashed water into the drain until it got into my gumboots. Then I tried to pour it out!

by Ruby

The puddle was by our class. My friend said to me, “There is a puddle”.

I went and jumped into the puddle, it was fun. The puddle was wet and I played in it. The water was squishy and my shoes were wet. I jumped and reached and I could not stop laughing!

by Michelle

When I was walking to school I saw a puddle, it was shiny. I jumped in, it was freezing cold and wet! My brother and I were going down the hill. He saw a big puddle. My brother jumped in it and he got wet! The brown, red leaves were in the big shiny puddles. I like the rain because it gets me wet and it feel nice on my back and it tickles. I got soaked and so did my brother!

by Jahna

I ran to the big puddle and I could not stop! When I got there I tripped up by a rock. It was a little rock. I kept tripping over in the puddle. It was slimy water and I went “Awwwww, yuck, yuck yuck!

by Racheal

I was playing with Emma and we saw a big puddle. Emma wanted to jump in the puddle. It was fun! Emma jumped in and the water went all over her. She was soaking wet. I was playing in my gumboots. My feet were nice and dry!

by Scania

I stepped in a big puddle and my sister started laughing at me. It was cold. Then I fell over in it. I got very cold and wet. I laughed and laughed too much. I couldn’t stop at all.

by Maraanea

I stamped in the puddle and I got wet. My trousers got wet. I felt very sad. The puddle was sparkly, it was on the ground. Our roof is broken. The rain is leaking on my brother. He didn’t see the water coming down on his shoulder. Oops!

by Shanyn

I jumped in the puddle, my knees got wet. Mum said “You got your socks wet”. My socks are soggy now!

by Emma