We have finally managed to catch a mouse in our traps.  First one for the term.  It was obviously placed in the right place. Well done our pest trappers.

It was all about balloons in Room 5 today.  We were investigating how to make static electricity and show electricity attracting and repelling.  We learnt that everything around us is made up of tiny little [...]

Today we cooked some hot yeast buns.  It was great fun kneading the dough and shaping it into our buns.  We had to wait for the yeast to work so the buns would rise.  Luckily [...]

We have heaps of caterpillars, chrysalises and butterflies on our swan plants.  The caterpillars are running out of leaves and have found our new plants that we were trying to keep caterpillar free until they [...]

Today we learnt a lot about energy with Ester, from Vector.  We learnt about the different types of energy and how we use energy.  It was interesting to see how New Zealand generates electricity and [...]

We did a science activity with Mrs Dunn involving air pressure.  We filled a glass to the top with water, put a card on top of the glass and then turned the glass upside down.  [...]