Welcome to Ross School's first blog site.

Please make comments on the works giving positive feedback for the 5 to 11 year olds who will be bloging. While spelling is important to us, it is not the intent of this site to have perfect spelling and grammar all of the time. this is more for the students to get their ideas out and have discussions with the world on these.

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Thank you.

Mr B

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

busy weekend.

I the weekend I went to Greymouth I got a pet cake. I also got some warm red gloves Libby got some braclets. we got dad a box of rose chocolates, some socks and i made him a card becuase it was his birthday. We are going to go to stumpers for tea mum is also making him a sponge.

the big bike ride

In the weekends I biked down to the beach with my mum, it was so cold and windy, when we got to the beach the waves were big, we left our bikes leaning against a big log, then we went down a beach road their was giant puddles, we had to wade thought the puddles because the bottom of the puddles were muddy, Mum nearly slipped over in one of the muddiest puddle, then we walked on the beach on the beach mum and I found a door of a fridge, I found a clump of bamboo, I took a peace of bamboo home I put the bamboo in a bucket of cold cold water the end.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

My cousins blog

Hey guys, if you want to go and see another persons blog this is my cousins web adress: pollyinabox.blogspot.com

Monday, June 20, 2011

Big Idea!!!:All Items Have Gravity

What we are doing:

We are tying nylon to a stone, then we're tying the other end of the nylon to the top of the ladder so it hangs beside 6 bricks stacked up.

We now wait and watch over a long time to see what happens. 

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Thursday, June 2, 2011

What a cool site i found!

LOLLIES

I LOVE LOLLIES & i WENT TO THE HOP POOLS

In the Weekends

Iwent to dads work and we went up to have a look at the mine and I got something to reinforce the concrete.on  Wednsday I had rugby training and 3 people wernt there. If your group came last you would have to run across the feild.or do push ups.

rabbits

I had to get a hole big bucket fall of grass for my rabbits, and every morning i have to feed them grass but some mornings i feed them rabbit musly. Some times i get wet when i am geting grass for my rabbits from the jue in the morning or if it is raing in the after noon.

My week since Monday

On Monday I did not do anything all I did was unpack unpack unpack and more unpacking. I don't want to bore you with Monday so lets move on to Tuesday. On Tuesday after school I went to squash lessons. at the squash lessons all we did was play a game of squash for half an hour. Then on Wednesday I went to rugby league training and we got our positions and I play standoff and I'm the first person to get the ball on the second tackle. Now were on Tuesday and our school is having a sausage sizzle and it starts soon so bye.

3 weeks are over!!!!

On Tuesdays 3 weeks ago I tripped over at school it was painful enough for me to go home. At home i sat down,watched t.v and slept.The next day we went to the medical centre and the doctors said they would book a x-ray for me so we would have to go to the hospital. I got my three x-rays and then we went to A and E. The doctor told me that i had slightly fractored my foot. I was given a moon boot to were and then we would have to come back in 3 weeks.Now those 3 long weeks are over we went back to the hospital and i no longer have a moon boot but i am on crutchers.

Hanmer spring

we went to Hanmer Spring we went I went down the Hidsid .

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Question for the Gunners

what is the cerebrum responsable for

Question for the Gunners

what side of the hemisperes controls the right hand side

Question for the Gunners

how many cells does the brain have?

Question for the Gunners

what is a Nuerotransmitter and how does it funtion?

Rowan Won Bronze Cafe On Mathletics For The First Time



Rowan won Bronze Cafe on Mathletics for the first time
Rowan won a Bronze Cafe for the first time on http://web.mathletics.co.nz/ at Room 2, Ross School. "It is an honour to have this certificate", Rowan says. "It was signed by Tim Power, too. What a wonderful yet funny name." Yes, yes, it is a funny name, Rowan. By Rowan, reported by Freezpeech and The Thorn.

Monday, May 30, 2011

Which will hit the ground first?

Aim:
To find out which item will hit the ground first

Materials:
Brick, soccer ball, cricket ball, tennis ball, fort, 3 stop watches, 4 people

Steps
1. Take all items to the top of the fort except the stop watches.
2. Have 3 people stand at bottom with a watch each (clear from the fort)
3. Count down from 5 and drop each item from the fort, timing the time it takes to drop.
4. Record the results

Results
Item                Time 1             Time 2              Time 3             Average

Tennis Ball        62                     69                  59                     63.3

Cricket Ball      79                     63                   62                      68

Soccer Ball       69                    50                   56                     58.3

Brick               1.0                    1.0                   X                      1.0

Brick                56                     X                    X                      56

Brick                57                    78                   84                    72.6

Brick               56                   2.68                   X                       56

Keys                 75                  1.06                 93                     91.3

Keys                78                     X                     X                     78

Keys                66                    62                   69                       65.6

Keys                56                  1.37                  54                        55



Publish your reasons for the data we see above and a conclusion to the experiment.

What was the outcome?

Was this a fair test?                       

Can you suggest ways of making this test more reliable?

Cool numbers

I made some numbers with playdough. here is 10 and 9.