Classroom News
This is what our students have been up to this week.
French with Steph
This term classes P-2 have been using a mentor text to refence colours. Using The Very Hungry Catterpilla students could draw and colour in shapes, fruits and treats seen throughout the book and learn the french dialect.
You may also have noitced our year 6 assembly hosts practicing their french language.
Human Powered Vehicle
Last Thursday students in Year 5 and 6 had an opportunity to participate in Energy Breakthrough, through a joint project with the Mount Beauty Secondary College. Mr Greenhalgh came over to speak with our students about the EB challenge and an opportunity to enter the human powered vehicle race. A couple of students had time to have a drive around a course laid out in the school yard.
Class 3/4
Extending and merging mathmatics with enquiry, today Kathryn's class untook a challenge.
The Big Zucchini Challenge. Kathryn bought in several gigantic zucchini's from her farm for the students to use. These zucchini's have been grown with heirloom seeds.
Breaking down the competition into different areas heaviest, appearance, best name, longest, fattest and most seeds.
Students broke into the groups of 2 or 3 to take on these investigations.
Students worked out the percentage of green on the fruit, measurments in centermeters of length and circumference, weight on both digital and analogue scales, comparing how heavy each fruit felt to other groups, looking at shape and size.
Tomorrow investigations and winners will come to a conculsion once the zucchini's are cut to see who has the most seed in number and weight.
Year 4 Leadership
Last Friday's lunchtime clubs had a great turn out. Art Sport and Board Games and Puzzle clubs ran simultaneously in our art/music space.
Art had a challenge set for small groups to build paper towers with the highest reaching .....
The boards games where just as popular and students worked well together, following rules and most of all having fun.
All activities had a second run this week with different activities.
Congratulations to Reagan, Bridie, Elke and Frankie who built the tallest paper tower.
MONDAY - Ninja Warrior Course with Johnathon, Nate and Tait
TUESDAY - Sports Club with Hugo, Archie and Lawson
WEDNESDAY - Music Club
THURSDAY - Drama Club with Chili, Jarrah, Skye, Jordan and Indi
FRIDAY - Art and Sport Club Challenges (newspaper towers, sport banners and paper cannons) with Cooper, Kit and Niels and Board Games and Puzzle Club with Sam and Jakob.