Picasso Art

Picasso Art

In the past few weeks we have been learning about Picasso Art. Picasso’s most famous picture is the Guernica.

Picasso does cubism and sculpture. He has had the art talent ever since he was a young child.

Our paintings that we painted were one side from the front of the face and one from the side of the face. We used contrast colors with pastel with bright colors. We have put a lovely background. Nash has put a bright orange background for the awesome sailor that he has made like Picasso’s.  Jack’s has a wonderful and different face with an amazing background.

Here are some of our paintings,

     

This is Nash’s Picasso art.

 This is Jacks Picasso Art

 This is Picasso.

Picasso’s full name is Pablo Picasso.

He was born in 25 October 1881.

He died in 1973 8^th April at the age of 91.

He was originally from Spain and he died in France.

Can we Change how Water Acts?

Can we change how water acts?

In Room 12 we tried to see if we could change when water freezes.  To do this we froze water with different things added.

First we tried to freeze fresh water, water with salt and water with sugar.

We added 1 cup of salt to 800ml of water.  We also added 1 cup of sugar to another 800ml of water.  The last one was just fresh water.

We poured this water into muffin tins to freeze.  We then put these in the freezer overnight.  The next day when we checked them the salt water one hadn’t frozen (there were a few ice crystals though) – WE HAD CHANGED HOW WATER ACTS!!!

This is one of the crystals that formed in the salt water.  The rest of the water didn’t freeze.

We then tried to freeze some of our salt water from Colac Bay.  This water froze.

Next we wanted to melt our ice cubes to see which ones melted first.

We sat three ice cubes of each kind in containers and left them to melt.  Every half an hour we looked at our ice cubes and took photos so that we could remember what had happened.  At the beginning it looked like they were all melting at the same speed.  After about an hour though it was clear that the fresh water one was melting the slowest and the sugar water one was melting the fastest.

From this experiment we have found that yes we have changed how water acts.  If you add salt or sugar to water it will take longer for them to freeze and also it they will melt quicker.

This means that if you add salt or sugar you can lower the freezing point to below zero.  This explains why in some countries they put salt on their roads to stop them freezing.

The pictures below show our ice cubes after one and a half hours of melting.

  Fresh Water

  Salt Water (from Colac Bay 2 tablespoons of salt to 1 litre of water)

  Sugar Water (1 cup of sugar to 800ml water)

On Tuesday 27th March the Senior Syndicate went to Colac Bay to the Takutai o Te Titi Marae.  We were welcomed on with a powhiri then took part in four different cultural activities.

The children made poi and anchor lines, learnt the ukelele, took a look at the local wetland 'O Koura', and listened to a local legend then drew chalk pictures.

The local people of Colac Bay were really welcoming and Colac Bay turned on a stunning day.  Both our students and parents learnt loads throughout the day.

A huge thanks to all the parent helpers, we couldn't have done this trip without you!!

We hope to repeat this trip in three years time.