Monster Trucks, Horses and Assemblies!!!

Last week we had a visit from the American Monster truck Bigfoot, Mr B, Mrs D and Mrs M's horses came to school......and.......we had our AMAZING assembly!......Have we been busy?....ABSOLUTELY!

Here are some pics we wanted to share!

Horse Visit

Mr B taught us all about how horses were used as transport and to work cattle many years ago. We even got to see Mrs M's BIG baby Paddy!

Mrs M rode Paddy!

Mr B showed us how to crack a whip on Impact!

Assembly

Our very own famous grey nomads - Dave and Mabel

Looking snazzy and ready to go! Thanks for our awesome backdrops Connor's mum, Abby's mum, Eric's mum, Charli's mum, Callie's mum, Mikayla's nan, Sophie's mum - you guys are legends!

Lava Lamp Science

Well the title says it all! We have been Flat out like lizards drinking over the past few weeks! Sorry we haven't had a chance to post regularly, but here are a few highlights of the last two weeks!

In Science this term, we have been continuing to investigate mystery mixtures and materials. We have been doing a number of experiments to find out how different ingredients react when mixed together. 

Mrs S came in once again to help us with some crazy science! We got to make really cool lava lamps! We started by making a hypothesis about what we thought would happen during each step of the method. Here are some:

'When the oil gets poured in with the water, I think it will look a bit yellow and smell strongly of oil. As soon as the food colouring is in, it will change the appearance and turn orange. When the tablet is added, I think it will go a bit fizzy and make bubbles' ......by Claire

'I predict that the water will mix with the oil and it will be the same colour as the oil. I think that the oil and the water and blue food colouring will make it blue. When the tablet is added, it will go fizzy'......by Hailey....

'I think when you pour the oil in, it will not mix with the water. then when you add the food colouring the water will turn green. Then when the tablet hits the water it will dissolve and bubble until the tablet is gone'......By Abby

Here is the equipment we needed and the method we followed:




Check out what actually happened!!!

Professor Abby and Professor Lachlan writing their observations of the oil, water and food colouring

Professor Mikayla enjoying the colour show in the bottom of her bottle. We found it VERY interesting that the food colouring did not mix with the oil.

Professor Leo and Professor Claire jotting down important scientific notes.

Professor Dale rocking the safety glasses!

Professor Danica....looking very bubbly after dropping the asprin tablet in......

Professor Isabelle about to drop the asprin tablet in!

Pretty blue bubbles.....hmmmm I wonder what is causing these bubbles to rise then fall...?

Mrs M got a little bit excited, so we went outside to see what would happen if we dropped 4 asprin tablets into our lava lamps.........

What a MESS!

Lots of bubbly science fun!

After carrying out our investigation and observations. Mrs S helped to explain what was actually happening with out mixture. We found that oil is hydrophobic (which means it doesn't like mixing with water). This is because it has a lower density than water, this is why no matter which way you hold your lava lamp bottle the water stays on the bottom and the oil stays on the top.

The food colouring and the tablet will also not mix with the oil (that is why they 'sink' straight through the oil into the water). When the tablet reaches the water it begins to dissolve and starts to release gas. This gas rises to the top of the bottle and takes some of the coloured water with it (forming the 'bubbles' in the oil). The gas escapes when it reaches the top of the bottle and the coloured water falls back down......pretty cool huh?

Happy experimenting! Love Tremendous T4

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