3D Shapes

As part of our shape unit, some students made 3D shapes using toothpicks and blue tack. A challenge was to make a shape with 8 faces! Did anyone succeed? Have a look at the photos!

Tesselations

A tesselation is an arrangement of shapes where all sides are touching- there are no gaps. Have a look at the tesselations some of the children made!

Excursion to Yarrambat Park

We had a great day at Yarrambat Park exploring the local area and learning about the water cycle. During the day we had four activities including a scavanger hunt, fishing at the lake, painting the local scenery and a hoop discovery walk. See some of the photo's from the day!

Science Day

It was a cold, windy, rainy day at Yarrambat Primary School. Sadly, our excursion to Yarrambat Park was postponed due to the weather and we participated in Science day at school instead. Have a look at some of the children making slime with cornflour, water and food dye!

The Winner!

Here's Mika with his winning outfit!

Here are the special guests!

Footy Day!

To finish off the term, Yarrambat Primary School held a Footy Day where the children cam dressed in their favourite team's colours. We had special guests Brent Harvey, Michael Furrito and the North Melbourne Mascot Roo Ruckle! Congratulations to Mika for winning a signed footy for his outfit consisting of a collection of Brisbane Lions hats. Check out the photos!

Homework

This week Middle School had an exciting maths homework task of doing some cooking with their family and bringing in a sample. This was the maths task as it encouraged the children to think about volume and capacity when measuring ingredients. We had some fantastic cooking including white chocolate and raspberry muffins, apple pie, smoothies, pancakes and choc-chip biscuits were a popular choice. Have a look at some of the samples!

Literacy and Numeracy Week

Numeracy Activity
MSS participated in the national activity of completing a shuttle run and recording the data. Our class had to get into four groups and complete a 20 metre shuttle run as many times as possible in 2 minutes, 4 minutes then 6 minutes.
Our results were:
2 Minutes: 53 shuttles
4 Minutes: 145 shuttles
6 Minutes: 206 shuttles.
After completing this we calculated that we ran 16160 metres (or 16.16km), with an average distance of 646.4m. We found that our best time was 36 shuttles per minute at the second try of 4 minutes. We will keep using the data later in the week and compare our class to other schools in Australia.

Length

This term we are studying "Length" in Maths. To begin this unit the children could measure the length of items around the front of the school using their own measuring tool. Some children measured with shoes, some with meter rulers and others with tape measures. Have a look at the children finding the length of items!

Nintendo DS's in Maths

During this term we have been using the DS's as a whole class set to assist children in developing their number facts. The children are given two opportunities during the day to spend ten minutes completing the daily test and then practising their number facts including addition, subtraction and times tables. We have seen a great improvement in their number fact knowledge this term. Our class had the DS's in week 3 and will have them again next week. Let's see how fast and accurate we can get on our times table knowledge.

Author Visit

Last week Middle School had a visit from a new author. Her name was Fiona Trembath and she wrote a book called "Crackpot". Fiona read parts of her book, taught the children how to spell a difficult word and told the children that they need to use their imaginations in writing.

CSIRO Incursion

Yesterday Stephanie from the CSIRO came to visit Middle School for an incursion to begin our Inquiry unit on Science. The children had a great time and enjoyed participating in some experiments then had time to explore other experiments provided by CSIRO.