Monday, June 30, 2014

The Water Cycle

THE WATER CYCLE!!!


Have you ever gone outside and wondered how the rain falls? Water is all over the earth and it covers ⅔  of the earth! All the living things need water! This cycle is really important.  There are 1, 2, 3, 4 steps in this cycle. Water can be a gas, solid and liquid.  



EVAPORATION
Evaporation is when the water heats up from the sun then it evaporates up into the air! For example say you spilt a drink outside then you come back and it’s gone. That is because the heat from the sun evaporated the water into invisible water vapours that travel high into the air, and join together to make clouds.


CONDENSATION         
When all the water vapours come together and form little clouds,  the small clouds magnet together and make big clouds. This process goes on and on until the clouds get too heavy then gravity pulls the rain down.   


PRECIPITATION
When the gravity pulls down the heavy cloud water, then it rains. Rain is another word for precipitation. It can hail snow or sleet. It hail or snows because the higher the water vapours go the colder it gets. That's how it hails and snows.

RUN OFF
The water runs off into a stream or river then into the sea. Then the water cycle starts all over again and again over and over!


Conclusion 
Now you see how important the water cycle is to us and other living things! If we didn't have a sun we would not have a water cycle which would equal no living plants or even us human beings! See now you can amaze your friends or even mum and dad of how much you know about the water cycle!

By Janine

Monday, June 09, 2014

Room 20 Assembly Item

On the 6th of June 2014, Room 20 had a assembly item and it was about a science show. It was freaky on stage because you had 500 pairs of eyes looking up at you from the people down below.  We had a few hiccups with the sound system but we got it fixed. We had to come to school early so we could practice once but we didn't have enough time!!   Some people had 2 parts and some only had 1. We had a visitor today which was a fantail that was flapping around crazily in the school hall while we where doing our thing.

I was very scared before we started so my heart was pounding but when we  practised I was so relieved! My part was to be contestant! I had a sort of big part! I was quite happy with my performance because I didn't muck up like I sometimes did with the practices! I just about mucked up! I was so close!!!!!  I felt relieved after the show that it was over and done with.