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Sunday, 16 August 2015. Does the marble roll further from the higher ramp or the lower ramp? The marble will run further from the higher ramp because it can gather more speed. There were 10 in the bed! We had to do lots of different Maths, with a buddy. We loved doing maths outside. Thursday, 6 August 2015. Wednesday, 29 July 2015. Fun times at Jack Flash by the NZ Playhouse. Monday, 27 July 2015. We are learning about forces and motion. Look at our marble mazes we made.
Sunday, August 16, 2015. We finished off our forces and motion unit with an experiment on balloon rockets. The children had a lot of fun making and vdeoing them. Several balloons popped during the experiment but everybody got to have a turn launching them across the classroom. We had some great discussions about the force and friction and afterwards the children produced some wonderful writing. Here are a few of them. 8220;What are you doing? 8221; We all asked Mrs Buckley.
Thursday, 13 August 2015. In our Science topic - Sound, we have been learning about pitch. Higher pitch is caused when sound waves move through the air causing FAST vibrations. Low pitch is caused when sound waves create SLOWER vibrations. We experimented creating different pitch - using various objects. eg; we filled jars of water and hit them with a spoon to create lower, higher and highest pitch. Most of us predicted it would make a higher pitch! Tuesday, 11 August 2015.
We are excited for MATHS WEEK! This week is maths week and in room 4 we are going to be putting our brains into overdrive. We are going to challenging ourselves with daily dollar questions, a maths trail with the rest of the senior team, problem solving brain teasers, and our very own Halcombe School Senior Mathex challenge. We are ready to go! Congatulations to our Yr5 Mathex team! They are very proud of their effort and we, too, are all very proud of them! CRAZY DAY IS COMING! .
Creative Thinking - The Inventions Key. One of the tasks we had to do as part of our electricity unit, was a creative thinking task. These superheroes would have some kind of electrical power! As usual, we came up with a massive variety of ideas. The ICT group had great fun making short movies today! Maths Week - Day 3. The markers hard at work! Our basketball competiti.