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Last Friday the Foundation students celebrated their 100th day of school. To celebrate, we made fairy bread with 100's and 1000's then completed a procedure for how to make fairy bread. We learnt about things that cost less than, about or more than $100 and brainstormed things that we would buy if we had $100. Our buddies visited and helped us to make a 100 Days Smarter crown, we even used glitter to make them look beautiful! We had a fantastic day celebrating!

Science Challenge - Name a star and planet

This year the International Astronomical Union has given Australia permission to name a star and the planet that orbits it. The planet we get to name is a gas giant a little under half the size of Jupiter. Its current, rather boring name is HD 38283 b.

Our star was chosen because it is easily visible from the southern hemisphere, and because the planet that orbits it was discovered by Australian astronomer Chris Tinney using the Anglo-Australian Telescope at Siding Spring, NSW.

Our science challenge this term is to come up with a new name for our Australian star and planet!

Your name needs to:

• Reflect the wide number of different people that call Australia home
• Be imaginative and fun
• Not be the name of anyone who has lived in the last 100 years
• Be part of the theme; for example the planets in our solar system are named after Roman gods. A theme is important because if more planets are discovered orbiting the star they can be given similar names.

Some theme ideas could be: food, sport, geographical features, music, art or anything else you can come up with!

Write your names down (illustrate them if you like!) and give them to your teacher by Wednesday 21st of August. The winners for F-2, 3-4, and 5-6 will be announced at assembly on Friday 23rd August.

If you really love your names and would like to enter them for serious consideration, you can submit your names at https://name-exoplanet.net.au/