Pre-bell fun with Mrs Ah Chan!

On a soggy wet Friday what's a 5 year old to do before the bell!?  Well for the very fortunate A3, Mrs Ah Chan taught a few of us how to do some origami.  We were captivated by your talent Mrs Ah Chan :)

 

2014 Calendar - Wild Animal Research Challenge

Our classroom calendar has a photo of a different wild animal every month.  The challenge for those who choose to accept it is:  

Can you name the animal and where it lives?

Our 5 year old, ready researchers went above and beyond and provided lots of interesting facts as well.  Here are the entries for February's animal.

Our fabulous entries created a healthy hearty class debate over whether our calendar elephants were African or Asian.   Two entries thought Asian and four thought African.  

March

This week we presented our March animal entries.  They were very creative!  We had a variety of styles - posters, a book, and a story!  Our calendar is in the background on the right if you want to see the photo for yourself.

Congratulations Luque, Sarah, Jonathan, Samuel C and Jonny!

This entry is Jimin's.  She was away when we presented our entries, but isn't it a great one!

FireWise

Last Friday, we got some super fun visitors.  Firemen from our local fire stations came to check up on our FireWise knowledge.  They thought we had really learnt our stuff.  

If you know how to be FireWise tell us by making a comment at the bottom of this post!

We can answer the firefighters questions.

Get down, Get low, Get out FAST!

We walk calmly away from the 'fire'.

Check out what is in one side of the fire engine!

Check out what is on the other side of the fire engine!

There are all kinds of things in a fire engine. We thought the tools they have are pretty cool!

The best bit was getting to go INSIDE the fire engine!

Oooh, lots of buttons!

I wonder how many school children you could fit in a fire engine?

 

Little Scientists

Jolly Jumping Jelly Beans, what makes POPCORN pop?

If you read yesterday's post you will have a clue that the second of our two sounds we are learning about this week is 'p'.  We know that popcorn has that sound twice and that we love to eat it, but what we didn't know was:  What makes popcorn pop?

After some research via Suzy's World and our own experiment.  Here's what two of our super scientists had to say in their own words...

"The hot takes the cover off the popcorn.  When the cover comes off, the popcorn comes out."  Jonny

"After popcorn has popped, the inside is on the outside and the outside is on the inside.  It's inside out!  Luque

We also found out you can't use any old corn.  It needs to be corn specially grown for popping.

Here is the corn heating up and starting to pop...

Pop, pop, pop!...

Tasting the popcorn (for experimental purposes only, of course)

Our big book this week is called Jolly Jumping Jellybeans and the first sound we learnt about this week was 'j' (how convenient).  While we ate our popcorn we watched a 'movie' on how jelly beans are made.  We learnt that jelly beans are made up of two parts.  We sucked on our jelly beans of all different colours and flavours (again, only for experimental purposes, of course), and discovered what was inside was the same no matter what flavour.  Inside, all jelly beans look like this...

Our amazing Samuel C!

Welcome to our first post!  We thought we'd start with a bang!  Preschool let us borrow their sandpit so we could make a volcano for the letter v.  Here is Samuel C with the story he wrote after it.  His story was so good that we sent him to the principal and he got a Principal's Award.  Congratulations Samuel, we think you're awesome.  Your descriptions are super great!

Here is Samuel's story...

Lava as hot as a stove, fired out of the volcano like a bullet shot, like a shooting star across the bedtime sky.

Below is a photo of us getting the volcano ready (sorry viewers all of our other photo's have preschool children in them so out of respect we won't share them).