Being A Learner: Learning About Heavy and Light

Today we made the scales using an old can and a the lid of a shoe box.  We compared a group of objects and their weight. It was a lot of fun comparing objects.  Then we worked in groups and classified objects according to their weight.  It was fun working together in groups.  

Next we will compare how many cubes it takes to weigh objects. 

  

Being A Learner: Olympic Day @ LNS 2/9/16

On Thursday we had Olympic Day at school.  In the afternoon, we got into countries and tried different modified sports.  We worked together to earn points for our team.  We also dressed in our countries colours as part of our KidsCan Mufti Day.  It was lots of fun and Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard saw lots of smiles on Room One faces.  

Miss Collins and Mrs Tizzard's equestrian steeplechase was a huge hit!  Neigh!

Mrs Leatham's station was like a field event at the olympics.

Miss Williamson ran the tug of war which students loved!  

Say cheese...

Mrs Campbell ran an event like javelin.  We had to throw a rolled up magazine. 

Three legged races were a hit with Mrs Sprosen.  

Sack races were fun but tiring! 

Mrs Geal's dress up game was funny!  It took team work!  

The Closing Ceremony was great to be part of!  

Medal winners!  

Being A Learner: Testing Our Cars!

On the second to last day of Term Two we raced our cars that each class had made.  Room One had intended on making balloon cars but it turns out the milk cartons were too heavy and wouldn't move.  We used push and gravity as our forces instead.  We got into our groups and pushed the cars down the PMP ramp.  

Tredestiny and Mualijcia's car

Cody, Lorenzo and Izzan's car

Micheal, Lucas and Nikora's car

Sasha, Toileve and Lupe's car

The winners!  

Congratulations Cody, Lorenzo and Izzan!

BEING A LEARNER: Making Our Inquiry Forces Cars

As part of our inquiry around Forces we have been making milk carton cars.  We had to work in groups to design a milk carton car.  Miss Collins gave us a choice of wheels and each groups chose something different to use for wheels.    We found we had to do some troubleshooting as some of the ideas we had didn't work.  

Once we had made our cars we got to decorate them with stickers and markers.  

We enjoyed this part!  Don't our cars look cool!  Miss Collins thought one looked like a bug!  Can you work out which one?

Our next step is to work out how to force them along.  We have watched some videos where they used balloons.  We are thinking that this could be a good idea!  Our next step is to attach the balloon some how and do some testing with our cars.  

Miss Collins has put them away somewhere safe as it is tempting to play with them and we don't want them getting broken!  We are looking forward to racing them.  

Here are some photos of our cars so far...