Maths Week

We are having a great maths week in Room 2! We have had tricky brain teasers day, a class quiz and a maths trail with Room 3. It has been great fun getting out and discovering that maths is all around us!

Today we had the ‘Play House’ theatre group come and perform The Big Sad Wolf. We had lots of laughs and thought they were very talented actors!

CREATIVITY

To kick off our creativity unit this term we did some sand art. After watching an amazing video of sand art we were very inspired to try it ourselves!

 

 

Thanks for the delicious chicken burgers Student Council! They were yuuuuuummy!

 

Science Experiment

We made frost and dew today!! We had to think like scientists and predict what we thought would happen in this experiment, and then we observed what did happened. In one tin can we had water and crushed ice and in the other tin can we had crushed ice and salt mixed together. It didn’t take long for ice to start forming on the outside of the  tin can. This happened because the water vapour (air) around the can was below freezing so it started to freeze into crystals to make a frost!

 

Thunderstorms

In science we have been learning about Thunderstorms. We watched a short clip of a thunderstorm and then wrote about what we could see and hear and then we explained how they happen. Here are Shania's and Brileigh's.

 

Bang! I watched a video on a thunderstorm. I saw lightning. It went down to the ground and looked like a tree with no leaves on it. I could hear the thunder rumbling and grumbling like a giant’s tummy. Thunderstorms happen when raindrops smash together in the clouds and then break out.

By Brileigh

Boom! Boom! I saw a big flash of lightning. It was flying across the sky like an angel. The lightning looked like a root in the garden. I could hear a rumble like a giant with a hungry tummy. I could also hear light rain floating from the clouds. Thunder and lightning happen when the water in the clouds smash together and try to break out. When they do, they shoot out and cause thunder and lighting.

By Shania   

Burger Day

Hockey

On Friday afternoon we had students from Feilding High School come and teach us how to play Hockey. We had lots of warm ups then they taught us skills like how to hold the stick correctly, how to glue the ball to the stick and push it, not hit it, and how to keep our stick on the ground. Afterwards we got to have a game! It was great fun! Thanks Feilding High School, we really enjoyed playing Hockey!

 

Science

We have started our science unit on weather. We brainstormed everything we know so far about weather on Popplet.

What an amazing surprise we had today!  The Westpac Rescue Helicopter landed on our school field. Last year we supported them by fundraising and today we gave it to the helicopter team. It was awesome to see it land and take off! Thanks for always helping those in need Rescue Helicopter!

 

We were very lucky to have Mrs O’Donnell come in and share some of her stories with us from when she was a child. She showed us her old school bag, some photos and even her ink pen that she used to write with! It was amazing to see how she used to write at school.

 

Art

As part of our unit on ‘Our Past’, we did an observational drawing of an old radio. We had to look very carefully and draw every little detail we could see. Thanks Miss Humphrey for bringing it in for us!