Home Learning Challenge - Water Experiment

This experiment looks at what happens to water molecules when heat is applied. The molecules move really fast because they gain energy as they get hotter. The molecules bump against each other and bond together in a blob! At the same time the water is turning to water vapour.

Lukmaan's water experiment from Room 9 on Vimeo.

Home Learning Challenge - Composting by Jaden

Home Learning Challenge - Composting by Jaden from Educ8JB

Home Learning Challenge by Poppy

Home Learning Challenge - Tui by Poppy from Educ8JB

Exploring Tapa

We've been exploring traditional tapa/siapo designs from Tonga and Samoa and investigating the process of tapa making.  Our school was gifted a beautiful piece so we were able to have a closer look at it and also touch the cloth to feel its texture.  We discussed the designs and what they represented.  Over the next few weeks we're going to be creating our own replica piece of tapa using a mixture of traditional elements along with personal designs.  Watch this space!

Fundraising for World Vision

Rooms 8, 9, 11, 22 raised over $1,091.50 from their bake sale over the past two days.  An amazing effort.  A big thanks to the parents for helping their children in the kitchen to whip up such yummy goodies.  The money will be split between our charities - Cure Kids, Cancer Society, Make a Wish and World Vision.

Today Room 9 used the $190 we raised for the class to purchase "smiles gifts" from World Vision.  Here is what we decided to buy for families in need:

Pencils

School stationery packs

A piglet 

- provides natural fertiliser and can produce up to 20 piglets a year 

helping a family to generate income

2 goats, 2 chickens and training for families on how to care for their animals

- provides nourishing milk and eggs for a family

Zoomin In on Our Production Collages

Production Collages

Our production collages look awesome!  We're very proud of them and they look great on the backgrounds painted for our production.

First we sketched ourselves in costume and tried to get movement so we weren't just standing there doing nothing!  Then we cut out this sketch and used it as a pattern to cut out the parts of our body out on colour paper.  Eventually lots of cutting and glueing led to our amazing finished collages.

Each one has been photocopied and backed on coloured card for calendar art which you can view at the office prior to payment.

Our class wall display looks like this.