Pyjama Day

Pyjama Day was a lot of fun. We all came to school dressed in our pyjamas! We gave a gold coin donation towards SIDS for Kids. Our school raised more than $250!

Lapathon

Pre-Primary joined in with the whole school to participate in Lapathon. We helped raise money for the school and had a lot of fun doing so! As a whole school, we raised an incredible $6501.15! Thanks for all the support.

Fun with Room 3

 

Every Thursday afternoon, we've been combining with Room 3 to participate in a variety of fun activities.

 

Farm animal play

Bubble painting

 

Finger painting

Dress-ups

 

Box construction

Play dough

 

Exploring Capacity

We started our exploration of capacity by reading, 'Mr Archimedes' Bath' by Pamela Allen.

 

Every time Mr Archimedes had a bath with his friends, the water overflowed and there was less water left in the bath. Somebody must be responsible and Mr Archimedes tries to find out who. Was it Kangaroo? Or was it Goat or Wombat?

 

 

Mrs Walker was very thirsty, which container should Mrs Walker drink from? The small cup? The tall glass or the fat one? How can we find out which one holds more?

Some Children chose the glass because it was 'taller' and some chose the tin because it was 'wider'. We had to work out which holds more, but how?

Some suggestions for finding out which container holds more included: putting them next to each other, filling them both up with water, pouring one into the other and placing a stick in each container of water and marking the level.


 

We found out that by pouring one container of water into the other, we could determine which holds more or less.



Ordering containers from which holds more to which holds less.



Exploring capacity in the water trough



Which container holds more buttons?

Exploring Mass

In Room 4, we've been comparing objects to decide which is heavier and lighter. Firstly we learnt to heft (holding objects to judge weight) to compare objects. Secondly, we created our own balance with a cylinder and shoe box to determine which objects were heavier or lighter. Finally, we used a set of scales to compare our objects.  

 

We created our own balance similar to this one.

11th June - Comparing the weight of objects, "The play dough is heavier than the container. We will have to remove dough to come to the same weight."

11th June - Comparing objects, "The container of beans is lighter than the jar of paperclips."

11th June - Comparing objects according to weight and trying to balance the scales by increasing/decreasing the quantity of play dough.

Too Many Elephants

On 21st of May 2014, Treendale Primary School participated in the National Simultaneous Storytime. Room 4 got together with rest of the school and Mrs Clelland read 'Too Many Elephants in This House' to us.

 As a follow on, we made elephant masks and wrote and illustrated our own class story entitled: 'Too Many Elephants at This School'.