Mad Scientist Afternoon - This Thursday

Just a reminder that our Mad Science Learning Celebration is this Thursday Afternoon from
3 - 6pm. Our classrooms will be open for you to come and see some of our learning, how we made our science movies and what we have been doing in maths and writing that's all related to science too!

Clean Coins Science Inquiry

Rubbery Egg Science Inquiry

Floating Egg Science Inquiry

Coloured Milk Science Inquiry

Chocolate Science Inquiry

Experiment Explanation

On Thursday we are going to write an explanation of this spectacularly explosive science experiment. Here's two videos to help explain the science behind it.

Invisible Ink Science Inquiry

5 Sentence Writing Challenge

This week we are going to join an online writing challenge, called the 5 sentence challenge.

Here's the link: fivesc.

This is how it works:

1. We get a picture prompt like this one:

2. As a class, we brainstorm what we can write about: 

3. We write 5 sentences about the prompt. 

4. After editing and publishing our 5 sentences, we publish them on our blog and share the link on the 5sc website. 

5. Hopefully lots of people view our writing and comment so we can improve our writing for next time! 

Fun Run Tomorrow!

Fun Run Time this Friday

This Friday (tomorrow) we will be holding our annual School Fun Run at the Springston Pony Club. Parents are welcome to join us for this event.

Children in the Senior and Middle Teams will be leaving to walk to the Domain at 12:30 p.m. Junior classes will be leaving at 1:30 p.m. If any parents are available to help with walking children  please contact your child’s teacher.

Senior and Middle Team events will start at 1:00 p.m. with the Yr 7/8 Girls, followed by Yr 7/8 Boys, Yr 4/5/6 Girls and the Yr 4/5/6 Boys.

Junior Team events will be starting at 2:00 p.m. with Year 2/3 Girls, followed by Year 2/3 Boys, Year 1 Girls and Year 1 Boys.

Students can dress in their house colours for this event – they will need shoes for running in. Please provide a jacket and it may be helpful to include a change of clothes as we think the grounds will be muddy after this rain

WOW writing and blogging

WOW - there has been so much going on this week on our class blog Our WOW work and our new Kids Blog pages. Please check out the great work we have been doing during our our independent learning and science inquiry week!

What does that all mean? Well this week room 3 and room 4 have got so much to do for our science inquiry (experimenting, storyboarding and movie making) that we have been making independent learning choices during the day when the teacher is working with our science groups! We can choose between reading, writing and some maths activities as we work towards our goals. This is what is looks like:

What do you like about independent learning week room 3?

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'tion' word family

Today we made a word family of all the words that end in 'tion'

Can you think of any more? Leave a comment. 

Cause and Effect - Writing Explanations

This Thursday we are going to be looking at 'cause and effect.' This can help us in our writing and reading especially in our science inquiry project. Here's a funny video to get us thinking:



Can you leave a comment and tell me what some of the 'causes' and 'effects' in the video?