Class News
RU Okay? Day
On Thursday 8th of September we acknowledged R U Okay? day. During this day we had a wellbeing morning where we learnt about the foundation and why it was formed. We spoke about ways in which we can get help if we need it and that it is really okay, not to be okay and what a real check in contains.
We used some of the activities provided by the R U okay? Foundation to spark questions and conversations. These activities also made us aware of a number of ways we can reach out for help.
We spent the rest of the morning participating in team bonding activities: Get on the Chair and Blanket switch. For the ‘Get on the Chair’ classroom team building game, students needed to be flexible and balanced. Each student was given a chair. All the chairs were lined up on one single line. Every student stood on a chair. Miss Black then told us to stand in a certain order. For example: oldest to youngest, short to tall, foot size. The students had to change places without touching the ground.
These were a wonderful way to have conversations, work as a team and get help from one another.
Junior Excursion to Twisted
Last Thursday the Foundation, Year 1 and Year 2 students went on an excursion to TwistED Science. We participated in the ‘Flash Bang’ workshop which explored our Inquiry focus of sound and light.
We learnt about how sound and light travel in waves, we looked through glasses that separate the colours in light and we also used tuning forks and felt the vibrations.
In the amazing playzone we explored lots of STEM activities including building towers, pulling ropes to lift bowling balls, making enormous bubbles, rolling in spinning chairs, creating music and light, launching paper planes, working our way through a ropes maze, watching a ball fly through pipes and exploring an upside down room. It was a fantastic day filled with lots of fun and learning.
Angles, Angles, Angles
This week, children in years 3 / 4 have been learning about Angles. Children created a vocabulary wall about angles, identified the different angle types and discovered that angles are everywhere around us. They worked in small groups to match different-sized angles with their mathematical names and classified acute, right, obtuse, straight and reflex angles.
Poetry Workshop
In Year One we are exploring various forms of poetry and we are compiling our own Poetry Anthology. We had a guest ‘poet’, Francesca, come and work with us. She showed us how to compose a cinquain poem.
We worked in groups and here are our poems.
Rube Goldberg Day
Scientists at Work!
On Thursday 8th September, the 3/ 4 collaborative community finished their Term 3 Inquiry unit on physical sciences with a Rube Goldberg Day.
Rube Goldberg created chain reaction-type machines or contraptions intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way. He used physical sciences like gravity, push-pull, levers, pulleys etc to make the chain reaction.
The children had a great day planning and working in groups from all three classes. They discussed ideas, tried to solve problems, designed, redesigned, tested, retested and worked with a variety of materials.
Parents were invited to view their child’s Rube Goldberg machines in the afternoon.
Watching the children explain their machines and identify the different physical sciences used in the chain reactions was wonderful to see how much they have learnt over the term. Well done 3 / 4 for your amazing efforts!