Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Blobs in a bottle

BLOBS IN A BOTTLE

FOR SCIENCE WE DID AN EXPERIMENT CALLED BLOBS IN A BOTTLE. IT SHOWED THE REACTION BETWEEN OIL, WATER AND ALKA SELTZER TABLETS. WE LEARNT THAT IT WAS LIKE A LAVA LAMP AND THAT WATER IS MORE DENSE THAN OIL AND THEY DON'T MIX TOGETHER. WE LOVED WATCHING THE REACTION. AFTER WE DID THE REAL EXPERIMENT WE WONDERED IF IT WOULD WORK WITH LESS OIL AND MORE WATER. IT STILL WORKED. WE ALSO SHOCK THE CONTAINER TO SEE WHAT HAPPENED. 

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Playing with Magnets

PLAYING WITH MAGNETS

Today we played with magnets. We started by putting a paperclip in a glass of water.  We had to get the paperclip out without getting the magnet wet.  We then had some wonderings; like what happens if it is a plastic container or we have leaves, sand or bark in the glass instead of water.  

We learnt that we could only save our 'treasure' in water and oil and it did not matter if it was a plastic or glass container. So it only worked when it was a LIQUID in the glass and not a DENSE substance.

We then played with magnets to learn what was around the classroom that was magnetic.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Buddy Reading

BUDDY READING

On Wednesday we meet up with Room 10, our buddy class in the Library.  We all enjoyed reading to each other.

Thursday, March 8, 2018

Friday Camp Activities

FRIDAY CAMP ACTIVITIES
On Friday we did a range of camp activities like making lunch, a mural, a scavenger hunt, problem solving challenges and construction activities.  We all had great fun and then we had a nice lunch before watching a DVD.



Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Discovery Day and Lido

DISCOVERY DAY AND LIDO TRIP

Today we had our first discovery time as it was too wet to walk to the Esplanade 😒. We did activities like box construction, colouring in, rainbow writing, skipping ropes, basketball shots, lego and marble runs. We then went to the Lido.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Thinking Hats

THINKING HATS
We have been learning about De Bono's Thinking Hats. In groups we paper mached hats and then decorated them to represent one of De Bono's hats. The blue hat is what is going to happen next, the white is facts, the yellow is good things and the black bad things. The red is our feelings on a topic and the green is our creative ideas.  We worked well in our groups and loved showing the whole school our learning at assembly.



Room 5 A New Year

Room 5 A New Year

The fabulous five's have started the year showing they are a Self Smart group that want to learn. 


Here's some of the work we've done in the last few weeks.