Lighthouses

Today at school we started making our lighthouses for our Electronic Circuits unit. We had to make a circuit that would make a light shine. Then we started to make our lighthouses using bottles, containers and the circuit. We are doing paper mache overtop so that later on in the week when it is all dry we will be able to paint them. Here are some photos to show you what we have been doing so far. Photos of the finished product will be on here later!

Electronics - Circuits

Today at school we had a man called Mr Rogers come in and talk to us about circuits. He bought in some of his special kits that we were allowed to use to make up our own circuits. We got to experiment with different things to see what electricity could run through. We found out that the circuit would work if we used: earrings, scissors, shaperners, hairties, staples, tin foil, rings, keys, braclets, gunstapler, watch, hairclips. It was heaps of fun experimenting to see what would work and what wouldnt. Here is a video of one of the groups making a long circuit to make a light shine.

Art Suite

This term in the Art Suite we are making cushions. We are using a new method of Batik which is easy to use and mess free. We are using flour and water mix. For our first session in the Art Suite we had to draw different kinds of fish and choose one drawing we would use for our cushion. Then we had to transfer the picture onto the template we were using. Once we had drawn on our template we taped a piece of Calico material overtop of our template. Then we had to use the flour and water mix in a little squeeze bottle to make our print. Here are some photos to show you what we have done so far. Keep an eye out for more photos once we have been to our next Art Suite sessions.

We had to draw a fish first.

We drew lots of different kinds of fish before we decided what one we would put on our cushion.

Then we used the flour and water for the batik.

Ready to try and be painted during our next Art Suite Session.

Graphing

This term we have been studying statistics. On Friday Miss Lind put us into pairs and we made up a question that we wanted to graph. We then went around the different classes and asked the kids in the other classes so get the information for our graphs. Then we had to come back to class and create our graphs. It was heaps of fun and now our graphs are up on the wall dispalying all the information we found out.
Logan and Molly starting their graphs.









Everyone hard at work transferring data.








Jack and Emily both working hard.









Naveen and Regan making sure they get all the information correct.

Greenpark School Rules P.M.I's

We have been learning about Rules and Relationships at school. The other day we worked in groups to make up a P.M.I chart on what would happen if Greenpark School didn't have any rules. It was interesting to think about what school would be like if there wasn't rules. We then went over to the computer suite and published them using powerpoint. Have a look at what some of our P.M.I's looked like.

Green Park School in England

A school over in England called Green Park has emailed Miss Lind as they have found our blog on the internet! It will be great to keep in touch with them and become blog buddies. There are links to the Year 1 and year 4 classes from Green Park from our page. Feel free to check out their pages and leave them some comments. Hopefully we will be get some comments back from them!

Gruffalo Pictures

One day when Mrs Banyard was in our class she read us the story of 'The Gruffalo' by Julia Donaldson. After we read it we got to make our own gruffalo pictures. We think they look pretty neat. Please leave us a comment to tell us what you think of them.