Term Two- Week Three

Wow! What a week! We have been so busy this week doing lots of Science experiments. On Wednesday we went to the Science in a Van show. Check out the video below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDudj5qugnQ

We also did some cool experiments in class. In one of our experiments we added food colouring and dishwashing liquid to milk. This is what happened:

Last week at School Assembly Ashleigh received a Discovery School Achievement award for being a fantastic role model! Well done, Ashleigh!

At School Assembly Mason also got a prize! His TRUMP card was pulled out! Congrats, Mason! What a cool new toy! 

Just something to remember :-) Discovery School has a rule that we are not allowed any toys at school. This means that if it is not our news day we are not allowed to bring items from home to share. We would be very upset if our toy went missing so it is better to leave them safe at home.

Hope you all have a great weekend!!! 

What Is New?

Last week we started to think about our Science topic. We got to do a few science experiments to get us thinking about what science is. We came up with some great ideas in our class brainstorm! We already have many scientists in our class. The first experiment we did involved mixing water, cornflour and food colouring. We made GLOOP!

We had to think about the science question: Is Gloop a solid or a liquid? It is runny when you pick it up but it is like rock when it is sitting at the bottom of the container... Hmmmm..

We then got into groups and looked at the idea of floating and sinking. We had to think about what objects would float and why? What wouldn't float and why? We got some of our predictions right and some of them wrong but we could explain why some things could float and why other objects couldn't.

Today we went into the courtyard and Mr Burns showed us some more science experiments. We were amazed at what he showed us! We are really looking forward to starting our science topic :-) 

Week One- Term Two!

What a great start back. Term Two is going to be very busy!

We have all had a great start back to school. First of all, a big welcome to our new student Caide!!

We have had a busy week. In reading we have been focusing on compound words and in maths we have just started our adding. For PE we are now training for our cross country. It is going to come along very quickly and we have some very fast runners in our class! It is important that we wear shoes to school that we can run in so we don't miss out on practicing for cross country.

We have been very busy getting ready for Mothers Day this week. We made ice creams, published our stories about Mum and read a poem. Here are a few examples of what we did.

On Friday afternoon we all participated in the Big Crunch. This was a national attempt at setting the world record. There was a HUGE crunch so hopefully we made the world record.

After the Big Crunch we enjoyed an afternoon with our buddy class VH. We love learning with our buddy class!