Harold the Giraffe

We are learning about things that bug us and our friends. We are learning what boosts our selves and our friends. We can think about how our actions and feelings effect others and how their actions and feelings effect us. 

Harold the Giraffe says hello and sings us a song

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Creating Tally Chats

We are learning how to create tally charts. We are learning to make bundles of five so we can organise our data (information) more easily. We were recording data for the coloured cars driving past Glenbervie School.  The most popular colour was white, then black and silver. 

Our next step is to turn our tally charts into a bar graph. 

Fantail Writing

Respect

We have been learning about our school value of Respect.  We performed at Assembly on Friday.  Unfortunately some of us got a little star struck and forgot to sing.  Mrs Hayman could only upload half of our performance otherwise the video was too big.

Marvellous Moving Milk. What if.... we tried it with cream.

We re-visited our experiment from last week.  We found out about Molecules.  We looked at pictures of molecules in the internet.  We tried to think of something that wasn't made of molecules and we couldn't.  We role-played being the milk molecules and the red and blue food colouring.  We stared thinking about how the dish washing liquid changed the way the molecules held together. 

Then we thought about how cream might react.  We thought cream was thicker and stickier.  We thought that there would still be circles and movement but slower movement than for milk. We talked about how cream has more fat molecules than milk.  We thought they might be heavier to move around.

This is what we saw.

We repeated our results with milk

Then we tired our experiment with cream

Nothing happened!  We were amazed.  Someone suggested that we add more food colouring and then more dish washing liquid but still nothing happened.  After about 5 minutes we noticed that the colouring had sunk to the bottom and spread out to create a layer which the cream sat on top of. 
We dropped the cotton bud into the mix because we had given up.  Then we noticed some tiny circular movement.  At last something was happening but no where near as fast or as big as the movement with milk.

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The Enormous Crocodile.

We read the Enormous Crocodile by Roald Dahl and we painted some crocodiles. 

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We are Learning to write a perfect sentence using a capital letter, full stop and finger spaces. 

Statistics - Learning How to Graph

We are learning how to create a picture or bar graph. We are learning how to read them and make a statement about them. 

Eva says that there are 10 yellow bears on her graph. There are 6 red bears. There are 4 more yellow bears than red bears.

 Jese says that there are 5 yellow squares and 2 red squares.  There are 2 more yellow squares than green squares.

 

Thane and Caleb know that there was only 1 big bear. There were 5 more big green bears than big blue bears. 

We are learning to make Tally Charts. We learnt that we make bundles of five so it is quicker to count and graph our data. Calla made actually chart of the fruit we like on Super Six 

Learning Ball Skills

We had a small ball skill session today.  A great way to help your child learn to throw balls is to use the directions - wide man, strong man, point man throw.  Here is a video clip the children took to demonstrate...

Super Science Friday - Marvelous Moving Milk.

This is the first of our hands on experiments focusing on Molecules.  We were so excited we didn't absorb much of the explanation so Mrs Hayman will follow up again next week.

We put milk into a tray.  We added a splash of red food colouring and right next to it a splash of blue.  We touched the surface of the milk with a cotton bud dipped in dish washing liquid.  Some of our predictions were that; the colour would change, it would bubble, it would explode.

We observed what happened and the colours moved around and ended up mixing together.

The science behind it...
Whole milk is a mixture of water, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals and lactose.  Since milk is made up of mostly water, it shares some of the same properties as water, such as surface tension.
When you put the cotton bud with the detergent into the milk, you break the milk's surface tension, as seen when the colours were pushed away from the centre.  The detergent then starts mixing with the fat in the milk and breaking it down into smaller pieces.
The movement of the colours shows us that the soap is swirling through the solution, distributing the small bits of fat.  Because the skim milk does not have fat, the soap is not slowed down and the colours swirl more quickly.