Moon Craters

Have you ever wondered about the moon?

Wondered why it seems to change shape?

Wondered what the moon surface is like?

B4 have been finding out about the moon.

This week we talked about the craters on the moon. 

We did an experiment to find out how the different-sized craters may have formed.

We used a tray of flour as the moon's surface, and dropped a variety of balls onto it.

We were surprised when the little marble went in deeper than the big ball!

Why might that have happened?

Can you see the patterns left in the flour by the softball?

Do you have an interesting fact about the moon to share with us?

Do you have a question about the moon?

Bug Hotels

At our school we believe that homework should relate specifically to the learning that happens in 

our classrooms. 

Each term we try to have an interactive homework task that children and parents can work on together.

Our recent Social Sciences learning involved reviewing our Enviroschool projects that we did last year 

to improve our school environment.

As part of this, the homework task was to make bug hotels. 

Bug motels can encourage beneficial insects into our gardens.

Here are our amazing bug hotels!

What are your favourite bugs?

How can bugs help us?

Caring For Our Pearly Whites!

We're back! After not posting since the end of 2018, we are finally back into blogging!

As part of the Health topic 'Looking After our Bodies' the

class watched a video to find out why we need to brush our teeth.

The children each received a toothbrush and some toothpaste and watched a video about the best way to brush our teeth.

Finally, we went outside to practise!

What colour is your toothbrush?

How often do you brush your teeth?

Do you have any fillings or do you have no fillings?

Do you have any wiggly teeth?

Our River Walk - Looking at Fish Habitats

As part of our science work on Fish, we walked to our river to think about fish habitats.

In our river we have trout and eels.

We also wanted to see how people may have changed the river and possibly affected the fish habitats.

Would some fish like the shallow, swift parts of the river?

We checked out a stream that flows into the river

Would some fish like the deep, shadowy parts of the river?

Fifty years ago, this part of the river was a deep swimming hole. 

Now it has filled with silt and stones.

Would the fish swim here?

Could landslides affect the fish in the river?

Sometimes the river floods over this paddock.

Would fish swim here?

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This bank has been shaped and replanted.

Could this affect the fish?

Would fish like to hide among these boulders?

Did you spot any fish while you were on the swing bridge?

If you were an eel, what part of the river would you live in?