Week 3 - Term 2

This week we learnt about many interesting things including the domino effect and we played dominoes in groups. On Wednesday we had buddies with the preps. We taught them how to play dominos.

We also learnt how to use Microsoft Excel to create a bar graph in maths. This was a very challenging activity because Mrs McLean wouldn’t tell us how to do it but we eventually worked it out by ourselves.

 

In maths we did some subtraction on the whiteboard with magnets and solved math problems in our books. In P.E we played Lacrosse and we also had music and Indonesian. Mrs Kerrins taught us about different tastes in Indonesian and we even tried a chilli!

This week we got a new collage trolley because all of the red tubs that go onto tables got way too messy. Thank you Mr Kerrins for putting it together for us.

We watched a video about a frogs and their lifecycle. After we watched the video we had to make a photo story which explained what was happening. Many of the seeds we planted last week are growing strong but some which did not get light or too much water are struggling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today we went on a real life expedition! It was a great opportunity for us to show our own explorer spirit and try and use bravery, courage and problem solving.

 

Mr Kerrins(Principal) arrived at our classroom with a truck full of things we could take on our expedition into the unknown. We had five minutes to choose any item we thought we might need or use on our travels and to get ourselves ready. Needless to say we chose some very interesting things! But how would we transport all of these things?

 

Once we began our journey we quickly found out that a cart full of equipment would fall over and that a wheel barrow was difficult to manoeuvre over rocks. However we continued on through the bushland until the team finally reached the pond. Once there we explored the surrounds and set about trying to gauge the depth of the pond.

 

We quickly began to understand that being an explorer was not an easy occupation and would have been extremely challenging. Finally we packed up all of our equipment and returned to the classroom very tired and proud of our achievements.

 

 

Overall a very enjoyable expedition!

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Today we had a special visit from Mr Tom Barratt. He worked with us in our Discovery Time and helped us to come up with lots and lots of fantastic ideas. We are now going to use our mathematic knowledge to help us to make some prototypes.

Exploring the Unknown!

This week in 4/5 Navy we became explorers! After watching ‘A Pep Talk’ we focused on the ‘Two Paths’ mentioned in the poem by Robert Frost. We went out into our school grounds and found two paths, one of which was less travelled and explored what it would have been like for explorers who were constantly on the path less/never travelled. We tried to leave our mark on the environment we were in by writing our names. It was hard because we did not have a pen or paper or any other conventional writing tools. However in the end we saw the possibilities in the things around us and once we started to see the possibilities it was hard to stop.

 

We returned the this part of our school later  in the week and were surprised to see that some of our names remained and some had disappeared with the rain. We then took a snapshot of something that we could see and sketched what we saw. It was important that we included a description of our snapshot so that we could really get all of the details correctly recorded. Initially we found our descriptions to be very simple but after some feedback from our peers we had specific and helpful ways to improve our writing.

 

Later in the week we thought it would be interesting to contrast the things we left behind in our unexplored environment to those things that allow us to know an explorer has been somewhere. So we set about finding answers to the open question ‘How do we know an explorer has been somewhere?’ We found this very exciting and recorded all of our findings in our OneNote Notebooks.

 

Our exploration and discoveries have only just begun but we are very excited for what is yet to come.

 

Stay Tuned!