Excursion Tomorrow

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on June 24, 2018

Don’t forget tomorrow our class and room 18 are going to the Tower Arts centre for a short performance and drama workshop run by pre service teachers. Our session time is 10-12 so we will be getting organised and ready to leave just after 9.30. We will take our recess with us and return before lunch.

Hopefully the last few notes were returned at the end of last week. If your child hasn’t returned it, please bring it along tomorrow. If it has gone missing just write a quick permission on a piece of paper or in your child’s diary

Krista  🙂

LUTA – Lighting Up the Arts

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on June 13, 2018

Everyone’s hard work will come to fruition next Thursday night for the Lighting Up The Arts performance at the Adelaide Town Hall. This is both the students and my first experience with LUTA and I know I am looking forward to seeing it all come together.

Thank you to everyone who has returned the note about the rehearsal next Thursday. Another note with all the finer details about what time to drop off students on the night, where to drop them off and pick them up etc will be sent home later this week.

 

Country Presentations

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on June 13, 2018

Homework last week and this week has been  for students to prepare a speech/presentation about a country of interest. It has been great to hear about some of the countries students will be sharing about and I know some students are super organised and are already finished and ready.

Students will be presenting their speeches next week. We pulled names from a hat (well pop-sticks from a cup) to allocate each student to a day of the week. Below is a copy of when students are presenting. If for any reason the day doesn’t suit please let me know and I will happily negotiate another day

Krista 🙂

Team Work Tuesdays

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Posted by kristagill | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on June 13, 2018

Bucket Tower Challenge

Students worked in teams to design and create a bucket tower.
They had 20 straws, 2 metres of tape, a plastic cup and one metre of string to create a load bearing tower. Their structure had to have a suspended bucket that was free-swinging and held weight.  At the end of the challenge we tested each bucket tower to see how many dice they would support before the cup touched the table or the structure collapsed

 

Pop-stick Catapults

Challenge: to work in teams to design and build a catapult that would launch a marshmallow.
Materials: popsticks, rubber bands, plastic spoons, hot glue, sticky tape
The next day we tested our catapults with a competition to see which group could launch a marshmallow the furthest. Each group had three shots and we recorded the best distance out of three. The winning group launched their marshmallow almost 4 metres
Another fun Team work Tuesday ( and Wednesday )

Balloon Powered Cars

We explored Sir Issaac Newton’s third Law of motion that states for every action, there is and equal and opposite reaction.
We did this by making balloon powered cars using cardboard, straws, bottle tops, skewers and of course balloons.
The action was the air rushing out of the balloon and straw,  the reaction was the car moving forward in the opposite direction.

 

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