Despite the heavens opening and almost washing us all away, we had a visit from Natalie from the Waste Watchers team. Natalie was an expert “Water Watcher” and we spent the afternoon …….
Revising what we knew about the water cycle:
Talking about how to save water at home:
And sharing suggestions for conserving water:
There was time to talk, to listen, to think, to answer questions, to ask questions, and to come up with great ways or reducing, re-using, and recycling water.
Earth hour is a time where all electricital appliances are turned off to conserve electricity for 1 hour.
Globally, Earth Hour will be held 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm on Saturday night, but we wanted our school to participate so we are having earth hour this morning.
Earth Hour has made us think about:
How we can save electricity
How we can be in the future
How it was in the past
How it can help the future
Global warming
Sleeping!!!
Don’t forget if we use too much electricity we could be back in the DARK AGES!!!!!!!-(boom tish).
The CSIRO came to visit again and we had a great morning learning all sorts of things about Chemistry.
We were able to do many experiments to see how chemicals and substances reacted when mixed. We looked at acids and alkalines, we measured temperature changes, we made slime and mixed, observed and predicted what might happen next.
We think that we will explore Cool Chemistry further, back in class for the next few weeks. Stay tuned!
We recently had some wonderful visitors from the Cook Islands come to our school. The students were from a Primary School and ranged in ages from 5 to 12 years old. Their school Principal and lots of family members came with them to Australia.
The visitors were fantastic musicians and dancers. They performed for us in our COLA (covered outdoor learning area) which reverberated with the awesome sounds of the drums. All the adults played the drums and the students danced for us.
Sometimes the boys danced by themselves, sometimes the girls, and sometimes everyone danced together.
All the kids from our school clapped along and couldn’t wait to get up and join in dancing with our visitors. Even the teachers got up and wriggled and jiggled to the drum beats
Finally, when everyone was exhausted we all sat back down and farewelled our newest friends. Wouldn’t it be exciting to visit them in the Cook Islands someday?
We had an exciting morning in the Assembly Hall this morning. Prasanth, an athletic ambassador from the Premier’s Sporting Challenge visited us and spoke to the school.
He explained that his mother took him to gymnastics because he was a very active child. Prasanth continued enjoying gymnastics, and with lots and lots of training and commitment, he has made it to the top in his sport. Prasanth is currently ranked number one in the world!
Prasanth is dividing his time between gymnastics training and studies at university. He says it takes as much effort and dedication to achieve in his studies as it does in sport.
Prasanth encourages everyone to choose a sport that they enjoy, aim high and work hard at it to become the best you can be- and have heaps of fun along the way.
The AllStars are on track for Diamond level in the supreme sporting challenge that is the Premier’s Sporting Challenge.
All schools are encouraged to participate in daily activities and exercise. Everyone’s individual minutes of sporting activity are added together and then averaged to give a class total.
Bronze Level = 30 minutes a day
Silver Level = 45 minutes a day
Gold Level = 60 minutes a day
With extraordinary perseverance and application, the AllStars are aiming at the most prestigious level – Diamond Level, which is an average of 80 minutes a day.
To hone our skills and improve our fitness we have embarked on a rigorous but interesting regime of games and sports to keep our interest and enthusiasm high.
This has included relays, endurance running, sports (T-ball, basketball, soccer and cricket), games (dodge ball, Gaol and French cricket), skipping, hula-hooping, hitting, batting, dancing, netball, touch footy, goal shooting, serving, and kickball!
Whew!!!!!
Other sporty AllStars also increase their activity levels at home after school – some activities include:
soccer, walking, karate, walking the dog, judo, bike riding, tennis, swimming, jogging, rugby, hiking and walking to and from school.
We are coming to the end of the PSC and think that we will need a rest at the end!
Can you think of any other sports or skills we might try in the last few weeks of the challenge?
The CSIRO visited us again and we investigated the Human Body!
We tasted, looked, thought, poked, timed, ran, balanced, took apart, put together, moved, spat, sniffed, read, laughed, talked, hypothesised, tested, and had heaps of fun.
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