Sausage sizzle

Thank you all for supporting our fundraising efforts.  

Our sausage sizzle was very successful.  

A special thanks to all our helpers on the day.  

The children enjoyed delivering the sausages across the school.

We sold around 350 sausages and raised $564.00. 

Our helpful builder will now spend some time investigating what is the best option for getting our friendship bench.  Watch this space!

Thank you so much helpers!

That is a lot of bread!

Every class enjoyed a sausage.

A yummy lunch on a cold day

Sausages!

Friendship seat

Wibble Wobble, Albatross!

Today Jayden and Millie read the story Wibble wobble, Albatross.  A short story about the life at sea of an Albatross and what happens when it comes back to land.

The last page is a diagram showing the 3 metre wingspan of the Royal Albatross.  

Jayden and Millie were set a challenge - to find out what 3 metres looked like.  

Jayden had used the metre rulers before, they worked together to solve the problem.  

Check out their diagram - great work!

Cross country

Yesterday the whole school went to Redwood Park to run our cross country.

We had been practicing running so it was great to finally get to race day!

Everyone did a great job. 

 It was hard work but all the children cheered and encouraged each other. 

The children all showed great RED values!

Year One girls at the start line

Year One boys at the start line

It's all about maths!

Here is the problem:

The children drew pictures and used teddies to solve the problem for themselves.

This is how some of us solved the problem

Jayden wrote - 11+1+0+0=12

We discovered that there were a lot of ways to solve the problem.  

Some children shared the teddies evenly between the tables, some children left some tables empty, some children wrote the number sentence to represent their solution.

Let's get creative!

During our inquiry we have been striving to answer the question What changes, why and how do we respond to it?  At the moment we are focusing on thinking creatively to come up with a lot of ideas to make a change in our school.

We brainstormed all that we knew about being creative.

We had a chance to be creative with lots of different equipment.  

Check out our creativity! 

A fishing rod

Glasses

Hannah's freezer

Tanner made a camera

Josiah's cross-bow

Millie and Jayden worked together

Deepika made Captain America

 

Let's do some predicting!

Before writing today Mrs O'Leary was feeling a bit crazy and asked the class to predict what would happen when she pushed a pencil through a plastic bag full of water.  

"The water will come out" most of the class said.  

"There will be a big mess" said Avaya.  

Next Mrs O'Leary had to follow through and carry out her crazy experiment... "we're all going to get wet!" the class responded.

Check out the photos below to see what happened.

Once Mrs O'Leary pushed a pencil through the bag every child had a go. 

The bag was very heavy

 The pencil acts as a seal - like a plug - keeping the water safe inside the bag.

13 pencils in the bag

We decided to take the pencils out.  

The bag turned into a fountain, squirting water out of the many holes.  

So much fun and easy to try at home!

Here are some of our stories:

We filled a bag with water.  Then we poked a pencil into the bag. The water did not come out.

Written by Maya

When we filled the plastic bag the water didn't come out.  We took the pencil out of the bag.  Everyone got wet.

Written by Seth

We filled a plastic bag with water.  Then we pushed the pencil into the bag. "Ahhh" the water stayed in the bag.  When we took the pencil out the water came out.

Written by Deepika

We put pencils into the plastic bag.  The plastic bag did not leak.

Written by Millie