Garden Guru's

 

It's spring! Time to plant our garden. Yesterday Miss B and her garden guru friends went out to work in the garden while there was a spot of fine weather. They cleared the weeds, dug over the garden and planted new things. We now have strawberries, spinach, silverbeet, beans, lettuce, broccoli, spring onions, carrots and beetroot planted. We hope they all grow big, strong and healthy so we can have tasty things to eat next term.

Finding out about photography

We are learning about photography for art. We are learning about how to take good photographs. We have talked about how to use objects to frame our pictures. We had a look around our school and classroom for things that would make good frames and then tried out some of our ideas with a buddy. We looked at all our pictures and talked about which ones were most effective and why. You can see some for yourself here, which ones do you think are best?

Sounds Amazing

We have been learning about sound and how it travels in science. We have had a lot of fun experimenting with making sound, working out how it is made and how it travels to our ears. We have also found about the inner ear and how it works. We are now working out ways to share our knowledge with the junior school so we can help them to learn about sound too. We are planning presentations using photostory which we hope to also share on our blog and wiki. Look at these great pictures of us experimenting with string telephones.

Super star Students

In the last weeks of term we had two super stars, as we had a special award to give out for the International Science Festival that was held in Dunedin, as well as our assembly award.
Kane won our assembly award for his amazing, creative magic hat! We are hoping to hang our gorgeous creations from the rafters when we move back into our beautiful new classroom in the next few weeks. Well Done Kane!
Lucy won a special science award for her very clever thinking when we were working on chemical reactions with Miss Trainor. Lucy is very good at explaining how reactions happen and why she thinks they do. Tino Pai Lucy.