Ice Cream Making

Team 12 made Ice Cream on the 29th of November. My ice-cream was called Uchiha (Ew-Chi-Ha) Choc Chip. Despite it's name, it tasted more like iced-coffee to everyone who tasted it.
Also, it was supposed to have a ripple in it, but instead, that failed and ended up making the coffee taste.
But enough with the negatives.
The fun part was when we were designing the ice-cream poster and slogan. It was exciting making the ice-cream as well, though we failed on separating the egg whites to the egg yolks.
When we had our first taste with our ice-cream we discovered that all of our MnM's had sunk to the bottom with the chocolate chips. It made the ice-cream taste funny once you found the bottom of the carton.
Here are some photos:

Quadblogging

In room12 we have a special arrangement with classes around the world to participate in a program called Quad blogging. This is when we post comments on a classes blog about their learning. We get to scan through their blogs and see all the cool things that they have been learning. They always have interesting things to show.
For this week, Hamilton East School RM 10 is the classroom we have to post on.

Classes should participate in Quad blogging because they will be able to see what other school are learning, and they get to give back constructive feedback on what they see.

A good comment has a nice greeting to start with and lots of perfectly reasonable negatives in their learning, as well as lots of positive reinforcement. It can even maybe have a question at the end.

I love quad blogging!

Weeks Words

When we have buddy spelling in the classroom on Thursday, some kids in the classroom use a app called weeks words.
This app has a variety of features that you can use and games to play that is still educational.
Here is my fotobabble on weeks words:

Thursday Experiments

On Thursday the 14^th of November, team 12 did some fancy experiments with baking soda and vinegar.

The first experiment we did onThursday was an experiment which involved a balloon, a bottle, and a lot of baking soda and vinegar.
First we poured in some vinegar into the bottle. Then we carefully stuffed baking soda into the balloon. When we hatched the balloon onto the bottle and the baking soda fell out, it created CO_2,Which pumped up the balloon.

Our next objective was to see if we could make a bag burst. Last time we did this, we failed many times. We decided to change up the variables:
1. We had more sellotape
2. We had two bags in one.
3. We folded over the snap-lock area and sellotaped it up.

Most of them failed, until we did the two bags in one idea. We put baking soda in one snap-lock bag and zipped it up 3/4 of the way. Then we poured vinegar into the bigger bag. We put the baking soda bag into the vinegar bag and tightly zipped it up.

We shook the bag, and the pressure began to build rapidly. Once we thought it was going to stop, we moved in to have a feel. To bad it blew up in our faces!

Finally, we did a volcano experiment. We wanted to see what would happen if we mixed vinegar and baking soda together in a bottle and poke holes in the lid.

Our result was a fountain of vinegar. The silly people in our classroom jumped in front of the bottle so they could get sprayed. They probably didn't know that vinegar smells really off-putting.