Monday 12 May 2014
Look at our Amazing Aliens
Homework over the Easter holidays was to create an alien. Leave a comment on your photo, telling me a little about your alien. We will use these aliens when we write our playscripts next week and then create animations of our scripts. If you haven't made an alien, comment on one of these, saying why you like it.
Fantastic Science Projects
Well done to all of you that spent time making a science project for the Science Fair. We were very impressed!
Wednesday 7 May 2014
Science Week
Last week was science week. We made straw rockets and used air to power them. A planetarium was set up in the hall. It was amazing - the stars and constellations were projected onto the ceilings and walls. We learnt about the earth, our solar system and the moon, as well as about constellations and some of the myths surrounding them.
An astronomer visited the school and told us more about the planets, the sun and moon. He brought his telescope which had special filters on so that we could look at the sun. Unfortunately, it was cloudy all morning and the sun only came out for a little while during lunch so only a few of us got to see it through the telescope.
In class, we did some experiments. One was to investigate whether the size of the meteorite hitting the moon made a difference to the size of the crater created. We used a tray with flour and a sprinkling of cocoa powder on top as the moon. The meteorite was made from playdough. We dropped it and then measured the size of the crater. Does anyone remember what we found out? What was our conclusion?
An astronomer visited the school and told us more about the planets, the sun and moon. He brought his telescope which had special filters on so that we could look at the sun. Unfortunately, it was cloudy all morning and the sun only came out for a little while during lunch so only a few of us got to see it through the telescope.
In class, we did some experiments. One was to investigate whether the size of the meteorite hitting the moon made a difference to the size of the crater created. We used a tray with flour and a sprinkling of cocoa powder on top as the moon. The meteorite was made from playdough. We dropped it and then measured the size of the crater. Does anyone remember what we found out? What was our conclusion?
The Iron Man
As part of our Iron Man topic, we read the book and built our own Iron Man.
We also made collages out of nuts, bolts and scrap metal.
We painted pictures and created our own menus for the iron giant. For starters we suggested things like delicious oily doorhandles smothered with yummy diesel sauce and springs drizzled in runny oil. A typical main course could be scrumptious deep fried screws on a bed of rusty chains. Then for dessert we had nuts and bolt cake with diesel on the side or aluminium cheesecake drizzled in oil.
We then wrote our own adventure stories using some of the strategies we learnt from the book.
We also made collages out of nuts, bolts and scrap metal.
We painted pictures and created our own menus for the iron giant. For starters we suggested things like delicious oily doorhandles smothered with yummy diesel sauce and springs drizzled in runny oil. A typical main course could be scrumptious deep fried screws on a bed of rusty chains. Then for dessert we had nuts and bolt cake with diesel on the side or aluminium cheesecake drizzled in oil.
We then wrote our own adventure stories using some of the strategies we learnt from the book.
Monday 5 May 2014
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