pollyanna's learning journey

LEARNZ This morning the Batten team had a video chat with Andrew and he told us all about water. One off the things he told us was that we can never run out of water because the water cycle always comes so there is always water to fill up the aquifers. Another thing he told us is you can change saltwater to freshwater by mixing chemicals together with natural resources. The word that scientist use for this sort of thing is desalination.  The last thing that he told us was that when rivers are not flowing they will they go to a river that is flowing well and they get buckets and fill them up then tip it in the river that isnt flowing well to get it flowing again.  

Hello I am Pollyanna and this is me in room 4 doing some balancing Now the reason I am doing this balancing is because Me and my class had just been to see some since in a van and the first thing they  did was balancing. At this time I was so proud of my self for using all the things in my pencil case to do this then I started thinking how cool it was the fact that since and a van tort  us how to do this amazing stuff. This is Emily doing this call trick where she gets three wine glasses with some water in them then gets a table mat and puts it on top of them. Then she got three tubes and put them on top of the table mat and then she put three eggs on top of the tubes. Then she counted down from three then hit the table mat and as it was going up the eggs landed in the wine glasses with out smashing it was amazing. 

On Friday we had a Global play day session. This is me and my friends in our hut that we had just built. After we had built our hut we went in side the hut and played family feud. We did not play family feud the proper way because there weren't enough of us but we played it our way. The way we played it was I read out a questions and Matilda and Sophie had to answer the Quinton and if they got the questions write I would give them the card and bit tend it was money. We had such a fun time it was very much like being at home. While we where playing the game the blankets all flew off so we all quickly got up and fixed them.When we fixed them we tied them to the tables this time so they couldn't fly off.

Janet & Phil Hello this is Janet and Phil and they came to see the Batten team to talk to us about south Sudan. The first thing they told us was that the capital of south Sudan is Juba. One off the cool things they told us was that every day it was 40 - 42 degrees. During the day and at night it was 30-33 degrees. Because it was this hot at night some people would have to have a cold shower in there pyjamas to cool them down, or they had to wet there sheet with cold water then go  back into there beds and put the wet blanket on them to cool them down. 

Don: Eel scientist Hello this morning the Batten team listened  to Don who was telling us about ells. The first thing he told us was that shortfin eels like eating crabs. You can tell that a eel has eaten a crab by looking at the bottom of it. When you look at the bottom of it and it is red it means that it has eaten a crab. The second thing was that It takes 7-10 months for a baby eel to get back to New Zealand and it takes 5-6 months for an adult eel to get to Tonga. When an eel is  swimming it can look backwards well swimming fords. These are some of the  interesting  things that we learnt about eels Eels eat little baby ducklings Eels can smell their pray from about 4 meters away. There are 19 species of eels in the world. Females can grow up to 3 meters long. Eels teeth face backwards. When an eel catches its prey there is know way for the prey to escape. A really big eel can give birth to 50 million eggs. If you see a longfin eel with dots on it it means that i