Happy Queen's Birthday - bit of a joke going on about the Queen's birthday on Wednesday - maybe I'll get to sit in our new SHARP chair - phew-weee we're getting flash!
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Thee chair! We're pretty happy with it. |
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Thanks to Penny Hopkins for her kind donation!
Tuesday 3rd June: Mrs Hopkins will be teaching as I will be attending a follow up meeting to my trip to America re: ipads.
Wednesday 4th June: Shared lunch to celebrate Thimira
Wednesday 4th June: Football training for those children in the squad
Thimira receiving a present that Shkhan had made him - a jar full of treasures.
Thursday 5th June: Hockey skills 2pm
Every day - Cross country training for interschool team.
WEEK 4 SHARP KIDS!
Here are Sepp & Tahirih enjoying their SHARP morning tea, well done!  
Grace was the FIRST SHARP person to sit in the new chair...look at that - room for another 2 children! Well done Grace & Cuddles!
Inquiry - Was Maui A Scientist?
Last week we did science demonstrations & experiments with floating and sinking.
These pictures show what we did: I'm sure your child will have talked to you about and I know some children have done some of these at home.
 
Working out what surface tension is - creates like a layer of skin on the water.
The water molecules hold on tightly to each other. They don’t want to separate. They especially cling to each other at the surface because there is no water molecule on the other side of them to grab on to. The water molecules on the surface holds on to each other so tightly that a “skin” seems to form on the surface.
This link shows what we did and discussed. Surface tension was the focus.
On Thursday we looked at and discussed does plasticine float?
We then tried to make it float - some success straight away and a lot of trial and error by others.
 
YAY IT WORKED - THE PAPER CLIP IS .... FLOATING!!
Pushing the tissue down into the water.
Plasticine CAN float....Monet & Michelle show just this!
Ruby L & Amy - carefully pushing the tissue into the water - to see if the paperclip will float.
  
Come on, come on - please work!
A visit from a new lil man WALT SCHRADER! Little brother of Archie - Congrats to Mary-Anne & Russell: The children loved their visit from Walt.
  
Maths - addition....learning to add on using the strategy - go to the nearest ten. Some children have fantastic basic facts knowledge - but we are learning to show our working and how we got the answer.
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