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Celebrating Science Week in Year 4

Earth Science 

In year 4, term 3 has been all about exploring earth sciences. We started with an incursion and have conducted a soil survey collecting samples from across different areas of the school and analysing them to look for differences in composition. This week is Science Week and we have researched different rock types, finding three categories: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks. We learned about the etymology of the words, igneous coming from the Latin word for fire, sedimentary meaning to sit or settle, and metamorphic sounding familiar as we linked back to our biological sciences unit on life cycles of butterflies and frogs. We had a ride along the rock cycle to find out that there are many different journeys rocks can take (almost like snakes and ladders). Then we jumped into investigations about weathering, erosion & deposition. It really is incredible how much is going on beneath our feet and around us in nature! 

Here are some photos and posters from our research!

Soil and soil solutions - we really do have different soil types around our school.

There are different rock types!

Ride the Rock Cycle…

Exploring Weathering – Chemical and physical

House Captain Award

This week's award went to Maja from 2N

WEEK 4 HOUSE CAPTAIN AWARD 

Good morning students, teachers and parents of IPS, my name is Mila, your McCubbin Vice captain, and my name is Fiona, your Sutherland House captain. We are here today to announce the week 4 house captain award. The student who has shown school values by always being such a fantastic participant in the drama classes, and is always willing to try new things, is (drumroll please....) Maja from 2N. Keep up the great work. THANK YOU 

BY MILA AND FIONA 

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