Scientific Friday - Making Sime

 

On Friday Scientist Pryde came to Room 7 and we did chemistry by making slime. Chemistry is putting two or more ingredients together to make a whole new thing. We used food colouring, glue, borax and water to make slime but it didn't work. We are not 100% sure why it didn't work but we think it is because the ingredients were out of date. Have you got any good slime recipes that we could try?

Author: Myah 

Get Set Go!

Sports Coach

On Wednesday we did some balancing. When the coach said, "stop" we had to try balance on one leg with airplane arms. We sit down and listened to the coach, the coach picked someone to be the tagger. He gave them a pool noodle and the tagger had to run and tag everybody. When the person got tagged they had to stand like a starfish. To be back in the game, someone had to crawl through your legs. The tagging game was my favourite game because I liked tagging people. 

Author: Jeremiah, room 7

Room 7 has been enjoying Get Set Go which is a physical education program that incorporates all sorts of gross motor skills and balancing techniques with good old fashion fun. 

Story above orally titled and written by Jeremiah, room 7.

Buddy Reading

 

Every Tuesday after lunch room 7 does buddy reading with room 5. We like buddy reading because the big kids read us funny stories like 'Captain Underpants' and sometimes they read us jokes from their joke books. Today we read them our poem called 'Bugs! Bugs!' We only started the poem yesterday so it was good practice for us and when we got stuck the big kids were able to help us. 

Story writing with adjectives

 Room 7 is learning all about adjectives and how we can make our story sound more exciting by adding adjectives (describing words). We brainstormed adjectives describing the monster then we wrote a story about the monster. Tomorrow we are going to try and write our own.

Life Education

Room 7 had their second session with Harold and Nicole today. The students got an opportunity to talk to Harold's puppet friends about their worries. We are getting good at sharing our feelings in the different colour zones. The blue zone is sad, yellow zone is worried, green zone is happy and the red zone is angry. When we have identified what zone we are in, we work together to find ways back to the green zone. This looks different for each student.

We also had a think about if we got lost and what we would do. We talked about our addresses and how it's important to know them so we know where to go if we do get lost. We are writing letters to our parents and are going to send our letters to our parents using our addresses. This ties in with our Inquiry topic, safety. 

Taekwondo

This term our students have been learning Taekwondo. We learnt that Taekwondo is a Korean martial art. We have to say some Korean words. It is important to listen to the leader because he teaches us how to punch and kick properly so we don't hurt ourselves. You don't use it in the playground though. Taekwondo is for self defence which means you only use it if you're in danger. 

We loved trying out our new skills on a bag and making all the fun sounds that go with it. At the end of our lessons we are going to get to kick a board in half. We're pretty excited about that. 

If you have any questions for us let us know. 

Making Musical Instruments

Todays creating challenge was to make an instrument. This is part of our inquiry about sound. Miss Pryde gave us a pile of old boxed and tubes then she let us go on an adventure hunt for anything that could help us make an instrument. We found lots of noisy things. We found leaves that go crunch, acorns that can make a rattling noise, sticks that can make lots of different types of noises depending on size and how you use them. We all came up with some very different ideas for musical instruments. We are a talented group of musicians.