Music with Mr McCully

We are learning to feel the beat with Mr McCully.

Mushroom City

Room 2 has been growing mushrooms.  We keep them under the science table where it is shady and warm.  The first flush is now big enough to harvest.  On Friday morning, we will be having them for an end of term treat - a school breakfast of mushrooms on toast.

Book Character Mufti

The class councillors voted on the theme for our term 3 mufti day, and the theme of book character won.  Everyone enjoyed dressing up as a favourite book character.  Room 2 had a photo shoot on the Year 3 playground after the morning roll, and the entire Weka Team had a book character parade after morning tea.

Spells to make the teacher disappear?

We considering leaving these book characters outside on the line to dry.

Miss Wallace and Room 6 in the parade

Back at Hogwarts, Harry Potter was working hard on (maybe) spells?

Now that's a flower table!

Back at school, some people made an even longer daisy chain.  It was so big that it could fit around the outside edge of the flower table, like the circumference.

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Cockle Bay Beach Clean-up

As part of Conservation Week, Room 2, 7, 9 and 18 walked down to Cockle Bay and picked up every little bit of rubbish we could possibly find on the beach.  We learnt how marine animals are at risk; for instance, marine scientists are finding tiny bits of plastic are found in barnacles' stomaches.

We walked through Cockle Bay Domain on the way to the beach.  We learned a little about the ecology of the creek and surrounding bush.  We also had time to make daisy chains, just like children did in the olden days.

Caleb made a new friend.

Garden sculpture

When we made our clay fish we had some clay left over, so we made donuts out of clay.  Later on, we painted them in the school colours of blue and yellow.  Now we are collecting milk bottle tops.  We will drill a whole in these and use them as spaces between each clay donut.  We hope to collect about 100, mostly blue and yellow ones to match the school colours.

Learning about Space Travel

The Midnight Gang read A Suit for Walking in Space and the Demon Dentists read A Trip to Space Camp.  As part of the reading contracts, we made models of rockets using concentrations of rocket fuel and different volumes of payload.  Then we observed which rocket went the highest, although this was very hard to measure because they all went so high!  Several rockets landed on the classroom roof and are still waiting for Mr Want to retrieve.

Rocket scientists ready for action.

A World of Homes

The Bad Dads read A World of Homes.  In the reading contracts, they talked about their own home as well as other people's homes.  Then they designed and built a model home out of lego.

River Runners

The Gangsta Grannies read the chapter book, River Runners.  One of the tasks in the reading contract was to make a map of the river showing all the rapids.

Finally we made a model of the river using tinfoil for the river bank and lego for the kayaks.  We collected flowers, leaves and sticks to be the foliage along the river side.

On the Ball investigations

After they had read  On the Ball, the Ratburgers conducted a scientific investigation to discover which sports ball was the most bouncy.  We found eleven different balls in the junior sports shed.  We had to test each one a number of times and record the result each time so that we got reliable data.  then we calculated the average number of bounces using addition and division.  Next we plotted the averages on a bar graph and wrote a statement about what data told us.  We were surprised to find out that the ping pong ball was the bounciest ball at Cockle Bay!

Caleb recorded his results methodically.

The spider ball was the easiest to catch!

We calculated the average by adding up all the bounces and dividing by the number of bounces.

We plotted the averages on a bar graph and made statements about our data.

Rocket investigations for NASA

The Midnight Gang read A Suit for Walking in Space and the Demon Dentists read A Trip to Space Camp.  Then we investigated which was best rocket fuel and the heaviest payload to use to make our rocket go the highest.