After selling out in record time, our new stock has finally arrived. Several eager volunteers have been assembling the kits and we are ready go. We will start selling in the Infants Playground with Group 4 and then Group 6 (Tuesday) and Group 1 (Wednesday). There are 100 kits available for sale (same as last [...]
Assignment: Create an advertisement for a known product (HSIE: Who will buy?)
Create an advertisement for a known product. Make sure you think about the techniques you can use to help influence your target audience.
It may be in the form of:
DVD (T.V. advertisement)
CD recording (radio advertisement)
Drama (live TV infomercial)
Powerpoint presentation (newspaper/magazine advertisement)
Poster (billboard advertisement )
You will present your advertisement with a speech to class during Week 9. Total [...]
category: HSIE
tags: Assignment, HSIE
Waltjim bat Matilda: Australian Kriol language
Kriol, an Australian creole language, is made up of a mixture of several different languages that made it easier for people of different cultures to communicate. It developed in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in the early days of White colonisation, and then moved west and north with White and Black stockmen and others. It [...]
category: Performing Arts
Special Guest: Scott Flansburg (Mathletics)
Best selling author Scott Flansburg has been teaching maths and entertaining people with his astonishing math skills for more than 20 years. Today was our day to be entertained and inspired by ”The Human Calculator’.
Scott was visiting to help promote the Commonwealth Bank Australian Maths Challenge – 31 August to 1 September 2010.
The challenge will [...]
category: Maths
Making Ice-cream (Energy In = Energy Out)
In our last lesson about Solids, Liquids and Gases we talked about Energy In = Energy Out. When we change particles (matter) from one state to another we add energy and when the particles change back they release that energy. For example: We can take water and add a lot of cold energy to make [...]
category: Science
Eggcellent Stick Insects (HSIE: Who will buy?)
All our work on our unit ‘Who will buy? and setting up our business seems to be paying off . Group 3, who were the first ready, were lucky to be the first to market. At the end of the first day they have sold 19 Kits and Group 5, who started second, squeezed in an early [...]
category: Class Pets, HSIE
tags: HSIE, Who will buy?
Congratulations: Stage 2 Performance
Congratulations goes to everyone who participated in our Stage 2 performance ‘ Music through the Ages’. It was a great success with many parents commenting how wonderful you all were. I am particularly proud of our class with their skit/singing of Waltzing Matilda. It was FANTASTIC !!
[ video soon]
more photos can be found in the gallery
category: Performing Arts
tags: performance
It won’t happen again like this until the year 2040!! Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn
People often express surprise that you can see planets without a telescope. The planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Saturn are easily visible to the unaided eye in the evening twilight and early evening of the western sky (Sunday 8th August to 14th Saturday). The image below is useful for the whole week to show where the four [...]
category: Maths
Solid or Liquid (Cornflour slime)
With just two simple ingredients, you can make a slime that is so complicated even the most powerful supercomputers can not model it.
Procedure: How to make Cornflour Slime
[PARENT SUPERVISION REQUIRED AND ENCOURAGED]
To do this experiment you will need:
cornflour
food colouring
a small mixing bowl
water
muscles
What to do
1. Take the mixing bowl and add a cup of water.
2. [...]
category: Science
New Marine Aquarium (Salt Water)
We have just finished setting up our new marine aquarium. Most of the equipment was second hand and the fish and some of the live rock was from my aquarium at home. The new marine aquarium contains a pair of Ocellaris Clownfish and a lonely Domino Damsel. The aquarium is a FOWLR setup, Fish Only With [...]
category: Class Pets
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