Unbelievable Oobleck

So we decided to go a bit 'Crazy Scientist' this week and had a TREMENDOUS amount of fun ......(and made a TREMENDOUS mess!)....but hey, all in the name of science right? We had the stupendous Mrs S (Abby's mum) come and help us once again with her amazing scientific expertise.

We have started learning all about mixtures this term and wanted to investigate further how different ingredients would react when mixed together. Firstly, we read the book 'Bartholomew and the Oobleck' by Dr Seuss on the iPad. You can download the app at home or listen to it below!

After this, we thought it would be super fun to make our own oobleck to see what it would look, feel and smell like. We made a hypothesis as to what we thought might happen at each stage of our investigation and then followed the procedure to find out if our predictions were correct! This is the procedure we followed:

Step 1:  Collect your equipment and set up your work space.

Step 2: Pour the ¼ cup of cornflour into your mixing bowl.

Step 3: Add one tablespoon of water and 1 drop of food colouring to your cornflour and mix.    Record your observations.     

Step 4: Add another tablespoon of water to your cornflour mixture and record your observations. Continue adding a tablespoon of water and mixing until you have added 4-5 tablespoons.

Check out our Oobleck slime pictures below...

Some of the observations we made were:

- when we hit it or push hard on it, the oobleck feels hard, but if we are gentle with it it flows like a liquid.

- The cornflour and water were very hard to mix

- The food colouring spread with the more water we added

- You can scrunch it into a solid ball, but when you open your hand it melts away!

Mrs S explained to us that the molecules in cornstarch are very long but small. When we add water to it, the cornflour molecules can move freely like a liquid, but if we put pressure on the mixture (by pushing with our hand or stirring), it pushes all the water to the edge of the mixture and the cornflour molecules cannot move freely so it behaves more like a solid.

Happy Sliming!

Tremendous T4

A Very Busy Week!

Hello Tremendous T4 followers! We have had an extremely busy few weeks so far with our sports carnival, assembly practice and our normal day to day learning!

Last Friday, we had our junior sports carnival. We all had a fabulous day and Geograph ended up winning! Well done to all the factions, it was great to see everyone doing their best! Here are some pics of some of Tremendous T4's super athletes!

Izy, Miki and Hailey looking totally awesome in blue!!!

The lovely Abby sporting a variety of ribbons.

Zachary enjoying the sunshine.

iMovie Extravaganza!


Today we had lots of fun learning how to use the iMovie 
app. We had two VERY special helpers, THE Mrs iPad and the lovely Mrs E! 

We decided to base our iMovie trailers on our
preparation for the athletics carnival, which is tomorrow.

We had great fun learning about close ups, medium shots and landscape shots. Our film crew had to carefully consider which actions were appropriate for each frame in order to create our masterpieces! We had an absolute ball and learnt some fantastic new skills which we can't wait to explore further!

Check them out!

Claire, Hailey and Isabelle aka 'The Cool Girls'

Danica, Kayleigh and Taj aka 'The Fasties'

Samson, Lachlan and Zachary 

We hope you enjoyed!

Tremendous T4 Films

Welcome Back To Term Four!

Welcome back to yet another busy term! We have already hit the ground running in T4, with a pretty stupendous first week back from holidays! 

This week, we had heaps of fun working with larger numbers up to and over 10,000! We had to work with our shoulder partners to solve different number string puzzles. Some of us even had a go at placing negative numbers in the right order on an empty number line. 

Charli & Sophie nutting out some negative numbers

Eric & Claire looking extremely pleased with their problem solving!

Nothing beats a good shoulder partner, particularly when you are working with large numbers into the thousands! Hey Tyson & Hamish!?

Two lovely ladies making a tricky number line look like a piece of cake!

We are pretty excited about term 4 because we have our assembly in week 5! Our assembly is going to be based on some famous Australian geography and we are joining together with Mr B's Year 3s.

Today we had a listen to the song we are going to preform. It's one of Mr B's favourites by Graeme Connors called 'The Great Australian Dream'. It's a pretty TRICKY song, but we are hoping to master it over the next few weeks!

Wish us luck!!

Tremendous T4