REUSING! OLD INTO NEW!

We have been trying to think of ways to reuse everyday items to reduce the amount of rubbish we create. We want to look after our environment.
We took some old jars and created new and useful things to use at home.

We are also remembering to speak clearly and smoothly. Have a listen to see if you think we have done a good job!

What do you reuse to reduce rubbish?

Please share your ideas with us!

Taking Action That Matters - We helped the RSPCA!

Prep S and Prep K have collected old blankets, towels, sheets and soft toys to help the RSPCA look after sick, injured and abandoned animals. Thank you to our school and parish community for your generous donations.

We can make a difference!

Read about it here and here

We followed a PROCEDURE to make .......

Perfect Penguins!

Lego Land!

This term our Inquiry unit is Recycle, Reuse and Reduce. We will be looking at how we can reuse objects to create new products. We will be thinking about design and techniques we can use to make new things.
We will also think about how when we reuse materials we are helping to reduce the amount of rubbish we make. We want to help look after our environment.

To start the term we visited the Lego Education Centre at the Docklands to think about design. First we had to design a chair strong enough to hold Papa Bear (Mrs Kennedy) from the story of Golidlocks and the Three Bears. We learnt that we had to overlap the lego bricks to make the chair strong.

Then we had to build a chair for Baby Bear (one that wouldn't break!). We had to work in teams to make one chair per group.

Here are some photos of our chairs.

Baby Bear's Chair on PhotoPeach

We also talked about what we discovered!

Do you reuse materials to reduce rubbish?

What do you reuse and how?

Share your ideas with us!

Popping Popcorn!

On Tuesday we made popcorn using a Crazy Popper popcorn machine.
We learnt about following a procedure to make popcorn.

Step 1: Pour the corn kernels into the cup

Step 2: Add the kernels to the Crazy Popper

Step 3: Turn on the Crazy Popper

Step 4: Put the bowl under the Crazy Popper to catch the popcorn

Step 5: Watching, waiting - we could feel the heat coming from the Crazy Popper

Step 6: Perfectly popped popcorn!!

Look what happens to the kernel - how does this happen?

This is what we had to say about making popcorn.
Sometimes we forgot what we wanted to say so we had to stop and think and have another go!

Here we are enjoying our popcorn!

We love popcorn! - making a free slideshow

A VERY Busy Term!

What a great term! Here are just some of the highlights.

Have a great holiday everyone!

Photo slideshow generated with Smilebox

Next term will be just as busy and exciting starting off with a trip to the Lego Education Centre to learn about design. What have you enjoyed this term?

Our Announcements - Smooth talking!

We have been practising our announcements to help the RSPCA. Now we are trying to be smmmoooth talkers! Listen to our audiboos below.

Taking Action that Matters - Helping the RSPCA

We have been telling our school community about our action to help the RSPCA. Yesterday we presented our first announcement over the PA. Today our friends in Junior M (via skype) gave us some feedback to help us with our announcements and some ideas on how we could improve. Here is some of their feedback and some screen shots of our skyping session.


The announcements were good.
You didn't make any mistakes when you were talking.
I think you were very clear on the microphone (Jacob)
Travis thought we could speak up a bit louder.
Will thought we should make sure we don't have big gaps in our announcements.

Thanks Junior M for your wonderful feedback! Now we can improve our announcements.

Listen to our first group making their announcement on Audioboo!

Our action - Helping the RSPCA!

This term we have been learning about what animals need to grow and change. As a part of this unit we visited the RSPCA Victoria (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) and discovered the wonderful work they do. When we went back to school we decided that we needed to help the RSPCA. We considered a few ideas about how we could do this - we discussed the strengths and weaknesses of each and voted on an action. We chose to have an old blanket, towels, sheets and soft toy drive. We have asked the school community to help us collect lots of old blankets, towels, sheets and old soft toys to help the RSPCA care for unwanted, sick and injured animals. We will be collecting donations for the rest of this term. The Preps will be making announcements over the PA to remind our community and we have made posters to put up in classrooms and around the school. Our Grade 6 Buddies and Principal have helped us to think of ways to advertise our action. Ms Egan put a letter in the school newsletter and suggested that we use our blog to tell everyone about our action. The Buddies thought we should make posters and make classroom visits to let everyone know that we need to do to help the RSPCA.
Taking Action That Matters!



Sienna and Matthew bring their donations from home!
Thank you!



Goodbye Wally!

We have been so lucky to Wally the Giraffe visit us from New Zealand. He is A3 and A4's class mascot. Wally has been so busy helping us with all our activties and learning. He helped us look after our chickens and baby rabbits and he was always there when we needed an extra partner. We were able to skype with A3 and A4 and share adventures. We will miss him. He is now off on a new journey (hopefully first class) home to New Zealand.Thanks A3 and A4 for sharing Wally with us. He really is a very clever giraffe!

Goodbye Wally from marieck