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

Terrific Tellagamis

We are very sorry that we have not posted for a while, but we have all been working EXTREMELY hard on getting all our projects completed for open night last week! We have been busy researching, writing and creating Tellagamis and animal brochures.......what's a Tellagami you ask?.......
Check out the videos below to find out!

 

Abby's Tellagami Presentation on the Snow Leopard 

Connor's Tellagami Presentation on the Red Wolf

Isabelle's Tellagami Presentation on the Giant Panda

 

Alby's Tellagami Presentation on the Komodo Dragon

 

Mikayla's Tellagami Presentation on the Cheetah

 

Kayleigh's Tellagami Presentation on the Bengal Tiger

 

Sophie's Tellagami Presentation on the Jaguar

To complete these movies we started off by using our iPads and books to research our selected endangered animal and make 'skinny notes'. We then drafted our animal report to publish into brochures (pictures to come). 

Mrs M then thought it would be really cool to record an oral presentation of our information using the free Tellagami app on our iPads. We searched for appropriate images to match our information on Safari and saved them to our iPad camera roll. Then in Tellagami, we made a cool little avatar that looked just like us, placed the picture in the background and recorded each section of information. We then used the iMovie app to piece all our little Tellagami movies together to make one big movie.

Mrs M even attached our movies to a QR code that we stuck to our animal brochures, so that when visitors came to our room all they had to do was hover an iPad over the QR code to see the movie! How cool is that!

We hope you enjoyed these!

Tremendous T4

Our Excellent Wellington Forest Excursion

Last Tuesday, all of the Year threes went on an excursion to the Wellington Forest Discovery Center. We became bush investigators and had to look for forest clues to help our team solve our mystery tree.

We learnt heaps about the native southwest flora and fauna, and lots of interesting facts along the way!

 Did you know that you can tell the difference between a Jarrah and Marri tree by their bark? The Jarrah tree has much smoother bark, where as the Marri tree's bark looks more like jigsaw puzzle pieces. We also found out that Marri trees often 'bleed' sap, because there is a beetle that gets under the Marri's bark to lay its eggs. The tree 'bleeds' sap to try and get rid of the beetle!

Julz our forest guide also taught us about some of the animals that were native to the area. Some of them were;

The Pygmy Possum

The Red Capped Parrot

The Micro Bat

The Black Cockatoo

The Western Grey Kangaroo

 We also got to go on the 'Sense-ational Trail'. On this trail we had to wear a blind fold so that our sense of sight was taken away. We then had to hold onto a rope and go for a walk through the forest. We had to use our sense of touch, sound and smell to navigate through the forest and under, over and around obstacles! We was a very different experience for us all, but we really enjoyed it!

We hope you enjoy the video slideshow we made. Stay posted for our forest projects!

Tremendous T4

A Visit From The Department of Fisheries

On Friday, we had a special visit from Alicia from the Department of Fisheries. We had lots of fun learning about the rules of fishing. Did you know that the fish you catch have to be a certain size before you can keep them? This is so there are plenty of fish for future generations. We also found out all about some awesome creatures we can find at our local beaches. We loved getting our hands dirty and learning at the same time!

We all knew quite a bit about fishing to start with...

Claire had a go at measuring our Dhufish. It was only 40cm long so we had to throw it back! Dhufish have to be at least 50cm long to keep!

We found out that the stinky seaweed on our beaches is actually super important in the marine food chain because little bugs live in it.

Alicia asked us to sort all the sea grass and weed into one tub and all the 'creatures' into another. We found HEAPS of interesting specimens!

Hailey found a dried up seahorse skeleton.

Katie found a 'Sea Tulip'

Leo found a Port Jackson Sharks egg case. We thought it looked like a twisted screw. Alicia explained to us that the sharks screwed the egg case into rocks so their babies would be safe. The baby sharks stay in there for 12 months before they hatch!

We even tried to find the microscopic bugs that lived on the seaweed.

These are the classification sheets we used to try and identify our specimens.

After the incursion, we did some awesome writing about what we experienced and learned about. Here are Taj and Mikayla's wonderful recounts, head into T4 to check out the rest!

 

Happy Fishing!

Tremendous T4