Classroom News 

Year Prep

This week in Discovery, the Preps have been focusing on sharing equipment with their friends. It has been great to see the students working together and exploring the different stations with each other.

In share time, Billie said that she was sharing the cash register and food with Jazlyn and Tazlyn at the Ice Cream Shop! Lance shared that he and Joseph were sharing the blocks on the mat together.

Year 2 and Year 3/4 

The Year 2s and Year 3/4s have been busy collating their wonderings on the sky, clouds, weather and solar system. This week, they have been investigating how the earth moves around the sun. Students were introduced to the research process that they will soon use to further investigate one of the above topics. We cannot wait to hear all the amazing new facts they learn and see the creative ways they represent their learning to their peers.  

Year 4/5/6 

Growing tomatoes makes me happy. I love to eat tomatoes. I helped my mum grow the tomatoes, I planted them with her and then picked them. 

What is matter?     

Matter is anything in the universe including us, it can be a solid, a liquid and a gas. An example of a solid is a container, an example of a liquid is oil or water and a gas is smoke.  By Amelia

Matter can be all the worlds resources such coal, diamonds and everything you use in everyday life.  By Joshua

Everything that takes up space is matter.  By Ahan

Science Experiments

Students followed the Scientific Process and were given the question 'Does water walk?'

Knowing the different equipment they had, students hypothesised how water can walk. 

Hypothesis:

I think water can walk because it can move across things because it is a liquid. 

Post Experiment- the water went from one end of the paper towel of one cup to the other end of the paper towel in another and there was now half the water in each cup. By Bernice 

Water is a liquid and most liquids can move, such as pouring water from a cup. 

Post Experiment - Yes because the paper towel has fibre and the paper towel grabs the water and then the water attaches to more water and moves to the other cup until they are even. By Brian

I think water can walk because water spreads. Post Experiment - I was right because the water spread through the paper towel to the other cup. By Julian 

Water can move because it is a liquid and most liquids move. Post Experiment - The water slowly started moving from one end of the paper towel to the other, in the end both cups were half full. By John 

At the start of the experiment, we had two cups, one empty and one full. We rolled the paper towel up and kept one end in each of the cups. Half way through the experiment the cup with water and food colouring transferred onto the paper. At the end, after two days, the water was level in each cup. This process is called Capillary Action.  By Hansvi, Liam, Isabelle and Mia.

The water appears to defy gravity, but what it does is move across the paper towel using a process called capillary action. The water molecules stick to each other and they stick to the fibres of the paper towel. As water molecules are attracted to the fibres of the paper towel, they pull other water molecules with them. This allows water to travel from one cup to another. (Cool Science Experiments Headquarters) 

Instead of using paper towel in their second attempt at this experiment, Mia and Sheen used normal A4 paper and found that the coloured water did not travel like the other students who used paper towel. 

Some of the Year 4/5 student also got to do the experiment when the Year 5 students went to Parade for a soccer clinic. 

Thankyou! Thankyou! Thankyou!

Matthew 15:32Now Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, 'I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way.'

On behalf of the Year 4/5 students, we would like to say a big thankyou to all parents and guardians who supported our recent fundraiser, our very own home made Chutney, made with tomatoes grown in our garden. We raised $166.25 and this money will go to help the people of Tonga, who are still affected by the recent natural disaster. 

Year 1

It has been another busy week full of learning in Year 1! During our Literacy sessions the students have been working really hard on improving their writing. Our focus has been on learning to write recounts and practicing our handwriting. We have been discussing how we need to continually practice our writing skills and handwriting to help us become great writers. 

Emma mentioned “We need to learn to write so when we write letters, people can understand us”.

Laura said “Practicing our writing is just like practicing our reading, we need to do it so we get better at it”.

LIBRARY NEWS THIS WEEK

‘You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.’ Dr Seuss

It’s lovely to see our children enjoying their Library, carefully choosing books, selecting the ones they would like to take home and enjoy reading there, telling me why they are interested in the particular books they have chosen; their reasons are all so varied and exciting and show a vast difference in interests! It’s important to encourage this passion for reading in our children.

This week we had a helper in the Library, Cettina, one of our Prep mum’s who has offered to spend some time when she can assisting in the Library, a welcome helper!!! After the big effort of Stocktaking last year, there is now the enormous task of sorting books back into their proper places, Cettina has kindly offered to undertake this job!

Cettina is Joseph’s Mum, we have made her an honorary ‘Library Monitor’ whilst she carries out her Library support. Her work is greatly appreciated by myself and Mark on behalf of the school!!!