GINGER BEER ... AGAIN!

In Week 5, the Rimu Community made ginger beer and last week we finally got to taste it.
 
When we made the ginger beer, we used a big pot and we all got to read the recipe and put some of the ingredients in. The recipe had live yeast in it and sugar for the yeast to eat. We know that when the yeast digests sugar, it creates a gas called carbon dioxide which makes the ginger beer all fizzy.

Here's some photos of LC2 learners making our ginger beer:

Adding ingredients to the pot

Time to put the ginger in the ginger beer!

All bottled up and ready to ferment

Here's our bottled full of yeast getting ready to digest the sugar

We put the ginger beer in bottles and left it for a few days. We could tell pressure was building up in the bottles because they got very hard to push in and there wasn't much give in the plastic.

Finally, we got to try the ginger beer. Some of use really liked it and drank lots but some of us thought it was yuk!

Here are some photos of us drinking the ginger beer:

Wow, the liquid in this bottle is under a loooot of pressure!

Ms McKendry opened the lid just a tiny bit and look what is happening!

The moment of truth - what is our ginger beer really like?

Cheers!

And cheers to you, too!

Oh, cheers, ladies!

PUKEKO PRESENTS CERTIFICATES

Wow, in Week 6 we had such a lot of wonderful Pukeko children who got KC certificates and a huuuuuge bunch of awesome Pukekos who were awarded mathletics certificates.  

Brilliant learning, Pukekos - way to go!!!

All our wonderful mathletics achievers

Fabulous KC certificate recipients

In Ngaio Community, we are learning about chemical reactions that cause fizzing and foaming. Today we watched these videos that show some awesome chemical reactions that we can't do at home!

Ginger Beer!

We started making our ginger beer last week.

After the long weekend it was finally ready. We knew it was ready because the bottles were really firm, we couldn't squeeze them at all!

We all tried some. Some people thought it was delicious but others thought it was disgusting.

We all agreed that it was very fizzy!

Strategy Fridays

On Friday afternoons the Pukeko team have been practising decision making, negotiating, and problem solving by playing strategy games. Some games are played in small groups and others are solo games on the computer. 

ACIDS AND ALKALIS

LC2 children went to the Science lab today to do experiments about mixing acids and carbonates to see what happened.

We worked in small groups. We got to choose two things mix but thy had to be in different lists. In the acids list was lemon juice, vinegar, orange juice, tomato juice and grapefruit juice. In the bases list was washing soda, baking powder and chalk.

When some things mixed they bubbled up and fizzed. Some changed colour a little bit.  We got the biggest bubbles from mixing vinegar and baking powder. The chalk didn't fizz very much at all.

It went fizzy from a chemical reaction. That mean the acid and the carbonate mixed and changed and there was a gas given off. The gas from a carbonate is carbon dioxide.

It was fun to do the experiments. For some of us it was the first time doing experiments like this.

By Alex Neale and Alice Roycroft of LC2

Rimu Mathletes of the week - weeks 2, 3 and 4

Congratulations to our amazing Rimu Mathletes Of The Week from Weeks 2, 3 and 4 Term 2.

Rimu makes fabulous autumn art in teams!

The Rimu Team worked together and showed their team playing KCs on Thursday as they cooperated in teams of 5 to make Autumn Art.
One member of the team was responsible for designing and dyeing the background, another member produced the tree trunks, and the rest of the team got to work colouring and cutting out over 100 autumn leaves.

The team then worked together to assemble the finished art work.
Mrs Jenkins, Mrs OB and Mrs Lea were REALLY impressed with the team work, cooperation and artistic talents that the Rimu students demonstrated in this fun, noisy and messy session!
The finished art work will be on display in the LC18 Swamp (meeting room) later in week 5.