Bubble Buddies

Room 18 went to Room 29 to visit their buddies again for another Science session.  This time we investigated how much liquid soap we needed to add to water to make the best bubble mixture, to make the longer lasting bubbles.

Maths Money

We used Maths money to practise our understanding of place value; using $1 notes and $10 notes to make all sorts of numbers up to 99.

Here are some of the two digit numbers to broke down into $10 and $1 notes.  You can see more on the Maths page.

18 was one $10 notes and eight $1 notes.

22 was two $10 notes and two $1 notes.

Air Hockey

Room 18 had a chance to play air hockey.  First we learnt the basics: how to manage the hockey stick safely and hit the ball effectively. 

Then we were organised into teams and played mini hockey matches inside air walls.

Butterfly Art

After one of our butterfly hatched, we created our own butterfly art.  We looked at pictures of butterflies and copied them carefully using black wax crayon.  After we had finished the black outline, we use orange dye to colour the wings.

Here are some of our butterflies; you can see them all on the Visual Art page.

Monarch Butterfly

We looked after several swan plants in Room 18, and watched the Monarch caterpillars hatch and eat their way through the swan plant foliage.  We had four chrysalis hanging on different branches.  We came to school one morning and found a Monarch butterfly had emerged in the night and was sitting, rather wistfully, next to the window looking out.

Alyssa very carefully started to carry it outside, but it had other ideas . . . and fluttered to the relative safety of Luke's school shorts!  He walked very slowly and gently outside where we placed it on a shrub by the Junior Green.  When we checked at morning tea, the butterfly had flown away.

Bug Hunt

Everyone in Room 18 went on a bug hunt to see what we could find on the oak walk up in the Seniors, behind Room 10 and the swimming pool.  We found ants, beetles, spiders and cockroaches, but no cicada skins to add to our total cicada total count. 

Science Space

People brought the cicada shells that they collected at home or in nearby parks, and added them to our Cicada Maths charts.

Our final count for the summer was 740!

We found that black sand from Bethells Beach had enough iron in it to be attracted to magents.

Our seedlings have sprouted and continue to grow.

We were able to extract sunflower seeds from the sunflower seed head.

We planted lima beans on black paper wedged inside the glass.  It will be interesting to see their roots grow as they start to shoot.  We filled the middle space is wet, crunched up paper towels to keep the seeds moist.