Topic - Bird Feeders

What amazing inquiry Room 17 did on their topic. Using recycled items the students made their very own bird feeder this was done in pairs. All bird feeders were unique and different. 

Book Week

Room 17 had such a brilliant week during book week. They have great passion for reading and writing and enjoyed all the various events throughout the week.

Getting the door ready- all art displayed on our door was made by Room 17 students

Special guests reading to us 

Character Parade and Visiting class doors 

Sleepover At School - Day 1

With the weather not going to plan we had a range of fun indoor activities throughout the day.
First we started with art, drama and sport then moved onto making planes.

In the afternoon we had a run around the fields and made marshmallow towers out of toothpicks and mini marshmallows.

For dinner we had a choice of 4 pizzas- cheese, vegetarian, pepperoni and hawaiian. Followed by free play in the hall then going back to our classroom to sleep for the night.

Geometry, Orientation and Tesslations

Room 17 really enjoyed this learning area of Maths. Take a look at all the hands on activities we got involved with.

Lava in a Cup

In this experiment we started by adding food colouring to water then we added vegetable oil to the solution. The vegetable oil floated to the top of the liquid because it was less dense than the water. Next we sprinkled salt on top of the solution and it began to form bubbles that sunk to the bottom-

this created a lava like effect. The salt was heavier than the water and the oil. 

Walking on water

In this experiment below we placed coloured water (red, blue and yellow) into the plastic cup on the outside and one on the inside, leaving the two middle ones empty. We then placed pieces of kitchen roll to so that the liquid would run from the cups with water into the empty ones. After leaving it overnight the empty cups filled up with secondary colours (orange and green).

This experiment was performed by a student- Tyron