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Wednesday 23rd November

Technology

Over the past couple of weeks, the Middle Room have been very busy with our technology. We were given a brief that related to our inquiry topic of “Watch us Grow”. The brief was to design and make something that helps things grow. To be successful we had to design something that:

Can be used in the garden
Helps things to grow
Is our own design
Doesn’t cost a lot to make
Works properly
Is interesting
Can work independently on this
Doesn’t take a lot of time to complete

We have been really engaged in our work and have been working very hard to get these completed. Have a look at some photos of us busy creating our designs. We can’t wait to show everyone our finished projects!

Girls painting their designs.

Courtney decorating her worm farm.

George drilling holes for his worm farm.

Cooper filling up his bird feeder.

Boys helping to saw the wood needed fro a planter box.

Cooper helping Maddie with her bird house.

Flynn helping out on a planter box.

George is layering his worm farm.

Nic is making a container to grow wheat.

James is filling up his worm farm.

Thursday 22nd September

Sports Activator

We have has a busy last week at school. We had a great day for Greer to visit to have another session of touch skills. We start off with some warm-up games which were a lot of fun. Then it was time to practice our skills especially passing and stepping. We round off with a quick game which was very fast paced. We are all improving so much each time Greer visits. These lessons are going to help many of us with our after school touch.

Practicing our passing.

Keep an eye on the ball.

Rats and Rabbits!

Testing our reactions.

Georgia on the run!

George stepping.

Baking

The past few weeks for Maths we have been learning about fractions. We have all worked hard and learned a lot. For our reward for working hard this term Miss Chapman let us do some baking! We had to deal with lots of measurements like ½ cup, ⅓ cup and tsp. The class split into two groups and made lolly cake and russian fudge. They both tasted so yum! Unfortunately we didn’t take any photos of the end products as they were gobbled up so quickly!

James checking Bree has measured correctly.

Flynn stirring the fudge. It was delicious!

Oral Presentation Day

This term our inquiry has been focussed around Then and Now. We have looked at things from the past to what they are like now. These included transport, household items, clothes, and schools. We have worked really hard to produce a speech about a topic we are passionate about. Today was the day we presented them to the whole school, parents and friends of the school. We were all very nervous but everyone of us did a fantastic job. Then it was time to perform our dances we have been learning with Kayleigh Broad after lunch on Thursdays. These were performed down at the hall and we got a big crowd watching us. We got a lot of great feedback that we did an awesome job! Check out some photos of us delivering our speeches and our Then and Now dance performance.

Esther talked about computers from Then and Now.

Bree dressed as a soccer player!

Georgia taught us all about singer Daniel Skye.

Nic came as his role model: His Dad.

Taylor makes a pretty good queen!

George explained all about harvesters.

Flynn had a lot of knowledge about farming.

Kordelia transformed into Justin Bieber.

James told us about old and new tractors.

Julienne delivered a speech about Meghan Trainor.

Maddie knew a lot about dolphins!

Courtney dressed as her Dad!

Cooper transformed into a logging truck driver.

Middle and Senior Then and Now dance.

It was great to watch!

Tuesday 5th April

Last Wednesday we had our Sports Activator Greer come to school to continue to teach us some football skills.

We were learning how to dribble the ball. We found it is much easier to do this by using the side of our feet instead of our toes!

We started by playing a game of rob the nest where we had to dribble the balls back to our hoops and try to steal the soccer balls from the other teams. It was a lot of fun!

We also did a couple of drills called 4 goals and king of the field which helped us improve our dribbling, goal scoring and fitness. These games also helped us with our defending- we learnt that having a good defense is key to winning games.

We finished our session with practicing kicking goals which proved to be quite a challenge.

These skills will be super helpful especially for those heading to the Football tournament in a couple of weeks.

Rob the nest!

Iara on the move

Practicing our dribbling

Goal for Julienne!

Nic lining up his goal

Tuesday 5th April

iTrailers

Miss Ward has got us making iTrailers about our school and all the fantastic things we do in it. iTrailers are such a cool way of advertising and showing things. We love using the iTrailer app and we are very lucky that we have seven iPads we can use in our classroom to create them!

Check out some photos of us below making our iTrailers. Keep an eye on our blog and school Facebook page for our finished iTrailers!