Working with Clay!

Working with Clay!

We hope you enjoy looking at our clay face tiles. We learned how to keep the clay damp and blend the clay with our wet fingers. It was difficult to do but we are very happy with our finished tiles. Now we will let them dry and paint and varnish them, unless we can find someone with a kiln, so we can fire them. We love to read your comments so please write one.

Learn, Share, Create with ipads

Learn, Create, Share with iPads.

Each week we learn more about the Google apps and how we can share our learning with the iPads. As an introduction to creating GIFs we created shapes and filled them with colours and other shapes. The next step will be to make animations! We can't wait!

Technology Challenge- Making Catapults

This term our class is having loads of fun learning how scientists and technicians work and think. The students were challenged to make a catapult, from a set number of materials, that would flick a small pompom the furthest. They worked in groups and combined their expertise to complete the project. As they tried out their catapults they measured the distance the pompom travelled, in centimetres.  They then had a play off to find the winner. Our champ received a big bag of popcorn to share with his classmates. Following this challenge we discussed what made the winning catapult the most effective and had a chance to modify the design to achieve a greater distance!

Rocking Roosters Art Project

As a response to our Junior Journal Reading, one reading group made some Rocking Roosters out of paper plates. They completed the activity completely independently by reading the instructions.