Room 4's Blog 2014: March 2014

Saturday, 29 March 2014

Normandale Speedsters

For the past few weeks these children have been playing Touch Rugby after school on a Friday. They have been learning new skills and having fun.
Well done Normandale Speedsters.

Thank you Tracy for the photos

Friday, 28 March 2014

Fancy Feet Winners

These 2 students in Room 4 won a waterproof backpack cover with their fancy feet.
Congratulations

Fancy Feet Day

Wow - we are a creative bunch of people. Our feet looked amazing today as we wore our fancy shoes.
Can you guess who is wearing these shoes?

Mr Lindsay

On Wednesday Mr Lindsay left our school after working here for over 20 years.
We had a special assembly to say Goodbye to him.
All the children wrote a message and we put them into a book for him.


Mr Lindsay and our class

Sunday, 23 March 2014

Movin' March Week

This week is Movin' March. We are encouraging everyone to walk to school - at least from the top of the stairs. I wonder if Room 4 can all be walkers this week!!

As you are walking to school use your senses...

What can you see?
What can you hear?
What can you feel?
What can you smell?
What can you touch?

We are having a Fancy Feet day on Friday 28th. Now is the time to start thinking how you will decorate your shoes or feet. How creative can you be?

ideas to get your imagination working!!

Friday, 21 March 2014

Make it rain

Make it Rain

19/3/14

What we need

· Glass

· Very hot water

· Plate

· Ice

What we did

· We put the hot water in the glass

· Cover the glass with the plate

What do we think will happen?

· The water will get cold

· The plate will get hot

· The glass will turn fuzzy

How will we know

· We would use our looking eyes

What did happen?

· The insides of the glass had drips on

· Steam came from the hot water and hit the cold plate

· The plate was warm

Now we put some ice on the plate to make it really cold

We lifted the plate off the glass and on the bottom of the plate there were some drips – it was like rain

Dean was dripped on !! It was like a rain cloud

Where did the water on the plate come from?

· The hot water turned into steam (water vapour) and hit the cold plate and it turned back to water (condensation)

Rain Clouds

Rain Clouds

18/3/14

What we need

Glass Water

Shaving foam Food colouring

What we did

· We put water in the glass

· On top of the water we put shaving foam to pretend it was a cloud

· We used a dropper to put dye on top of the foam

What do we think will happen?

· The dye will go into the water

How will we know

· We will use our looking eyes

What did happen?

The dye went through the foam and dripped into the water slowly

It looked like rain

Why

The shaving cream got heavy with water

From the scientist

when clouds get heavy with water it rains

Disappearing pictures

Disappearing Pictures

from this ...

... to this

17.3.14

What we did

We painted ourselves with water on the concrete

What do we think will happen?

The water will dry and we won’t be able to see it – Lydia

It will fade – Kingston

It will be invisible – Charlie

It will dry out from the sun – Kate

It will dry into the concrete – Phoebe G

It will dry by tomorrow – Lachlan

When it dries we won’t know where ours is – Declan

It will have dissolved – Phoebe R

How will we know

We will use our looking eyes

What did happen
we looked at where we painted and our paintings were all gone so we were right that they would disappear

Where did the water go?

Into the concrete?

It's invisible

The sun dried it

It dries up into the clouds and we can see it when it rains

From the scientist

The scientist says that the water has evaporated. This means that the water has changed from being a liquid to a gas. The sun and wind dried up the water and turned it into water vapour and it is now in the air.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Spelling City

A good way to have fun with your essential list spelling words, and your words from your Home Learning Book, is to go to Spelling City.

a direct link to my lists of words

It is an app for your iPad, or you can play it directly on your computer.
http://www.spellingcity.com/

When you open Spelling City on an iPad

click on
Find more lists

click on find more

click on teachers name

and write Sue Morgan in the space

then click on search

now choose your list and have fun playing the word activities

Monday, 17 March 2014

Tennis

This morning we had our first tennis lesson. we were learning to keep our eye on the ball as we used a ball in various ways. It was fun and we can't wait until next week to do it again.