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** What a busy term and so many enthusiastic children in Room 27. **

 * Our topic this term has been "Change" . We have had a lot of fun completing science experiments that illustrate change in various forms.**


 * We have soaked eggs /bones in different liquids and recorded their interesting changes.**
 * Our classroom has been a breeding ground for a colony of disgusting moulds collected from various sources; all carefully sealed in plastic bags and strict instructions not to finger them. The children had fun sourcing the innocuous bacteria and giving them some bread and water to feed on then watching what the results looked like over several weeks. colourful but not particularly appetising!**
 * Dissolving different substances proved interesting too:sugars, salt...**
 * The children have all learnt the important parts and functions of a fair test experiment and are going to design their own fair test to solve an interesting scenario.**
 * Our class Enviro project has had an injection of enthusiasm and learning when we took a group of Yr 5 children to compete in a Lactic Turkey Sustainable Challenge event in May out at Long Bay Regional Park.**
 * They had teams of 4 chn and a shadow parent accompany the around the 2 hour course. They were amazing ambassadors for Meadowbank School!**
 * They not only had to orienteer but had homework to upskill on before they could compete. Serious competition! There were enviromental challenges to complete along the course and they gained points for these and the actual orienteering. It was a wonderful opportunity to participate.**
 * Our plan is to produce a rogaine event for our community using our own school zone and designed by the Yr 5 classes. Watch this space!**
 * Read and enjoy the photos and descriptions in the Powerpoint below produced by two competitors Lily and Kate from our class.**



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We are a Year 5 class ready to add our gems to this page throughout this year. Visit each other's page and read our fantastic work.
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__EOTC week for the Yr 5 team was a huge success. What a week!__
==Monday we piled on to the bus and headed to Extreme Climbing where the children roped up and clambered over the walls like agile spider monkeys. We had a scary demo from Charlie as she free- climbed up then dropped down unexpectedly above the children. I really thought we were going to see some squashed children! Following that we returned to school and tested our problem solving skills in some co- operative games. What a tangle they managed to get into and surprisingly managed to extricate themselves too.== ==Tuesday needed energy as we walked to Waiatarua Reserve to try out our orienteering skills. Children disappeared and ran to locate the controls placed all around the reserve. They were wonderful scouts and detectives. Walking home was quite an effort on top of all the running and orienteering.!== ==Wednesday we hit the water and took the ferry to Rangitoto Island. What a day! A tour through one of the old remaining baches intrigued the children including the long drop! Say no more that was a hit! We trekked up to the summit and enjoyed a well deserved lunch, drink, sit down, and soaked up the view. It was an achievement for many children to reach the top. On the descent we took a detour through the lava caves. No wetas but pretty impressive stumbling around in the dark. There were some very weary children on the ferry back.== ==Thursday was so busy! Preparing food for the sleepover, learning First Aid, being taught Surf safety by some lifeguards, building bivouacs in the pouring rain in the gully (not sure how dry some of them would be sleeping in them!) Everyone arrived back at school at 5pm for the sleepover-tents pitched in the hall. It was tent city and looked amazing. It was wonderful to see the excitement of all the children. Sleeping spots were claimed, gear unpacked and spread out and lots of giggling. What a night! They were busy eating the tasty dinner, racing around the school grounds in pitch black with a torch searching for orienteering clues. (Mrs Knarston thought she could trick these children with her cryptic clues but they soon deciphered them and raced to locate them)== ==Was there much sleep that night? I doubt it, but what a lot of fun was had by all the children. It will be a great memory for their Yr 5 experience. Thanks for being such an enthusiastic class of energetic, fun loving children. Mrs Knarston loved it!== Write some of your reflections on the week on your pages and share themn with your class wiki members.

Here is some photos from our awesome EOTC Week:

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 * This map shows the amount of views our Wiki has - hopefully we will have lots of overseas visitors too! **

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