BOOK WEEK

Last week, on Friday we had the Book Week parade. Everybody dressed up as their favourite book character. We had a wonderful parade. Two classes at a time, students got up and walked around to show off their tremendous costumes. The effort that was put into some of the costumes was amazing. Everyone’s costumes looked phenomenal. Mr. Sanderson was playing music during the parade and all of the students and teachers were clapping along.

Everybody also made speeches to convince their class mates to love reading. The rest of the week, all classes had a huge focus on reading. Teachers were reading to students and students were having quiet reading time as well. Everybody had a really good time talking about their favourite books and characters. 

 - Kasimira

 

SCIENCE TABLOIDS

In our wonderful school, we had our mind fizzing with all things ‘science’ during Science Week.  All of us Year Five students split up into groups ready to take off and explore the galaxy of science. In our newly formed groups we participated in a number of activities, including: fantastic Floating and Sinking, Electricity Circuits and Marshmallow Towers.

Floating and Sinking = we got a tiny piece of modelling clay and we experimented if a clay ball floats or sinks. After, we made a cup shape and tested if it floats or sinks. In our cups we added tiny cube blocks to see how many cubes you can place before it sinks.

Electricity Circuits = in the next interesting activity we had to make a light globe glow with only certain materials, testing to see which ones were conductors (conducts electricity) and which materials were insulators (does not conduct electricity).  

Marshmallow Tower = in this ‘mucky’ hands-on experiment we had to build a stable marshmallow tower. Once you have completed it you had to leave it for at least thirty seconds to test its stability.

All in all, we had a fantastic day.

- Elijah