The science of rainbows

🌈 How Do Rainbows Work?

Rainbows form when sunlight interacts with tiny water droplets in the air. When sunlight enters a droplet, it bends (this is called refraction), reflects off the back of the droplet, and then bends again as it exits. This process, called dispersion, splits white sunlight into its different colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet or ROY G. BIV  for short.

Each color bends at a slightly different angle, which is why we see a beautiful curved arc. It’s amazing how red appears on the outside of the arc, while violet is on the inside.

Did you know that rainbows are actually full circles? This might surprise you! From the ground, we only see an arc because the Earth blocks the bottom half. But if you’re in a plane or helicopter, you might see a complete circular rainbow. How cool is that?

Rainbows form through the scattering, reflection, and refraction of sunlight through water droplets (or sometimes ice crystals). These droplets are usually shaped like teardrops, which helps create the effect.

Rainbows don’t just look incredible. They also help us understand how light and water interact in our atmosphere.

25 Harper’s Monthly Budget – Math

Kia Ora Everyone my name’s Kurt from Edmund Hillary School

so Today in math we are learning how to make our budget to check budgets. So at first, it looked a little confusing, but once we started, it became really interesting. We made a table with two parts: income (money in) and expenditure (money out). For income, we added things like salary and babysitting. For expenses, we put in the food she bought is $400, petrol is $60, toiletries are $65, clothes are for $50, and a phone plan is $29.95. When we finished the totals, the income was $1,164.95 and the expenses were $735.00. It was very exciting to see that there was money left over after paying for everything. The spreadsheet made it really easy to add stuff up and keep everything neat. The lesson showed how important it is to spend wisely and plan ahead. If you keep track of money, you can save for the future instead of wasting it. Learning spreadsheets was a great experience for our class. It felt like gaining a new superpower—one that will definitely be useful in real life. (I’m going to add a photo here to show our spreadsheet.) 

Civil Engineering Bridge Building

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Today in the hall we had engineering, and it was awesome. Our first challenge was to work in groups and build the tallest tower using Jenga blocks. The room was full of energy as everyone stacked pieces as high as they could, trying to stop them from falling over.

Just when we thought we were finished, our teacher surprised us with a twist. She gave us a cloth and told us to put it under our towers to make it like we were building on uneven ground. Suddenly towers began to wobble, and some collapsed in seconds. Everyone was laughing and rushing to fix them.

Our next task was to build a bridge out of paper. It had to be strong enough to hold weight. We tested ideas, folded and layered sheets, and kept going even when our paper bridges bent or collapsed.

By the end of the session we were tired but proud. We had learned new skills and worked as a team, and for a moment we felt like real engineers.

Kurt’s best 2 days

My Best 2 Days Ever!

One morning, I woke up and saw my mum quietly booking a hotel near the Skyline. I asked why, but she just smiled and said it was a secret. She told me to go back to sleep because I was going to have a big day tomorrow!

The next day, I woke up and found my auntie and uncle at my house. They said we were going to the Skyline! I was so excited. My uncle said it was a big amusement park, so I said, let’s go!

The drive was long—about 2 hours from Papakura to Rotorua Skyline—but it was worth it. When we got there, I had a fun ride and even fell asleep for about 50 minutes. When I woke up, I played on my phone for the rest of the trip.

Our hotel was nice and had a big park near the gate. The Skyline was just a 15-minute drive away. We celebrated New Year’s there, and I stayed up until 4 a.m.!

The next morning, we went to the Skyline at 9 a.m., took the gondola up the mountain, and then rode the luge down four times. It was so much fun before we headed home.

25, Kurt’s first time Kickball experience

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I am here to tell you all about my first time playing kickball. It is a fun game a team sport and league game, similar to baseball where you have to kick the ball and each team has 3 strikes and there are 2 modes in this game. The first one is the defender where you go on the field and try to catch the ball if you do catch the ball that is strike 1 if you’r team gets 3 strike you’re team is out and you and you’re team has to change to defender. if you are in the attacker team you can get many ways to be out and switch to defender when the balls roll to you and you failed to kick it that is 1 strike and if you kick the ball and someone catches it that is another strike

What would you do?

Do you think Kickball Is fun?

24. KPMG

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So Our sponsors KPMG gave us presents so this blog is about thanking KPMG

Thank you KPMG for sponsoring our school you guys made all the students happy! I hope you guys have a good job!

24, Papyrus AI

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We have been investigating using papyrus AI Our first attempt with Naomi was interesting this is because it was the first time using this AI. Some of us put our whole story In while trying to focus on the introduction. It gave us detailed ways to improve that, at first, seemed overwhelming and very formal

The following day we tried again using our argument about: School only being four days. Some of us were for this others were against this idea. we also knew we might not get what it meant when we asked for help so we used an addition to our question can you simplify or in child speak can you explain. this helped us significantly, as we could understand what the AI was referring  to. This is me and the AI’s chat
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQ0Z-cnBI1rbcJq26Z–hHMo8Fy7qdCtFkPBUCPcMpjzV0F2DOH7SlEWTX8NxlQL593LGdIz2PIrRGW/pub