What makes things tick?

This year, we have been dismantling electrical equipment on the Science Table to see the technology that makes things work - these are the inner parts of a computer, monitor and TV.

Paper chains

It starting to get a bit like Christmas . . .

We worked in groups to make the longest paper chain we could in the shortest time:

Fraction Fruit Salad

We practised making fractions from shapes by dividing fruit into different fractions to make a Fraction Fruit Salad on Friday.

We halved these grapes.

We cut these apples into quarters.

We cut these apples into eigths.

We cut this piece of orange into quarters.

Rylee had a cunning tool to cut grapes into quarters!

It tasted pretty good when we mixed all out fruit fractions together.

Fraction Playdough Balls

We combined all the strategies we have been learning about multiplication, repeated addition and problem solving to work out fractions of sets of numbers.

Photo shoot

Can you spot the mystery person?

Tryathalon

This year, Ronnie competed in the Weetbix Tryathalon.  He trained after school and in lunch time sessions with Mr Dyer to prepare for the big day.

Here are all the competitors from Cockle Bay after they crossed the finish line.

Weka Day Camp chapter books

After our day camp, we spilt into writing groups and each group collaborated to make its own chapter book.  We each wrote a chapter and drew a picture with pastels to illustrate it.

Here are a selection of camp art, but you can see everyone's work on the Visual Arts page:

Here is an illustration of our tramp.

Here is an illustration of the orienteering.

Here is an illustration of cooking sausages.

Here is an illustration of erecting tents.

Here are the writers with their finished publications:

Kento, Liam, Jeremy and Green are the Adventure Writers.

Charlize, Kavesha, Taylor and Hayden are the Weka Writers.

Andrew, Rylee, Summer and Alyssa are the Camp Writers.

Ronnie, Bonnie, kate and Charlotte are the Botanic Garden writers.

Luke, Nico, Lincoln and Juwon are the Camping Machines.

Here are the promotional photo shoots of each writers' group: