Fizzy Investigations
This week we observed what happens when we add fizzy tablets to a mixture of water, cooking oil and food colouring. We already knew that the oil would settle on top of the water [...]
Book Week Character Dress Up
It's book week and to celebrate we all dressed up as a book character in a favourite book. There was a great range of characters and we had fun parading in our costumes. [...]
Making Paper Pots
We borrowed Room 2's fancy pot making tool to make paper pots to plant our seeds in. We needed strips of newspaper. The newspaper is wrapped around the wooden cylinder, folded at the bottom [...]
Elastic Plastic
This week we investigated polymers. Plastic bags are polymers. They are strong, stretchy and like elastic. We filled the plastic bag half full of water and we poked meat skewers through the bag, through [...]
Milk on the Move
This week our science investigation involved observing how different materials interact with each other. We put milk into a plate and then dropped different colored food coloring into the middle of the liquid. [...]
Bokashi: working well
Bryson has taken charge of the Bokashi since we have started it and has been very diligent ensuring it is used for the food we can't put in the worm farm or the compost. Soon [...]
Our Calendar Art
We are working to create our calendars for next term and are using the ocean as our theme. We have had great fun investigating ways to use dye, water, crayons, detergent and straws in different [...]
More investigations with balloons
We investigated the strength of balloons by sitting on them, putting them under a table and standing on the table, and putting skewers through them. They were very strong. We were surprised to [...]
Bokashi Compost System
Today Shelley, our waste wise facilitator, came to demonstrate our new bokashi compost system. We had saved our food scraps and some of the students helped to get the bokashi started. Some compost Zing was [...]
Skipathon Rewards
It was with great excitement that we unpacked our skipathon rewards today. Everyone who managed to get sponsors for the skipathon received a reward. So not only did we have a lot of fun, the [...]