More Birthday Wishes

Happy Birthday Tang Tang and Merryl!

Today, Tang Tang brought in the most delicious cake for us all to share. We were very impressed by how beautiful it was and luckily for us, it tasted just as good as it looked. We hope that both children had a wonderful day. I wonder who's birthday it will be next?

Happy Birthday James!

3C would like to wish James a very Happy Birthday! 

James brought in some delicious cake for us to enjoy and we even watched 10 minutes of 'Matilda' for an extra special treat. We hope that James had a lovely day and got all of the wonderful presents that he deserved to. It won't be long before Merryl and Tang Tang's birthday which are on the same day next week.

Beautiful Rangoli

For those of you who don't know, our art topic for this term is focused on patterns. In our humanities we are studying India so we decided to combine these two ideas to create some beautiful Rangolis.

A Rangoli is a colorful design drawn on the floor near the entrance of a house to welcome guests. During Diwali, Hindus draw bright Rangoli patterns on the floor by their front door to encourage the goddess Lakshmi to enter their homes.

We began by using coloured pencils and sequins but the following week we took the next step and used dyed rice which although VERY messy was also lots of fun.

Take a look to see how we began by with design templates...

Then, came the real thing...WOW!

After lots of hard work and concentration, everybody was very pleased with the results. 

Keep posted for what's to come next...

Charts and Graphs

This week, Miss Campbell's maths group have been investigating charts and graphs. We began by looking at tally charts, then bar graphs and now we're learning to analyse and create line graphs. It has been interesting to find out what people's favorite colors, fruit and flavor of crisps are. Have a look at our human bar graph below and see if you can tell which of the four colors (red, yellow, blue and green) is the most popular...

Miss Campbell thought that the children were so clever and had learnt so much about graphs that she decided to let Minna take over the class to collect data!

Minna and the other pupils worked together to put together some super data! 

We thought it would be fun to create our very own human bar graph to present our data! Do you know what our preferred colour is yet?

That's right it's BLUE!

Caution, Scientists at Work!

This week 3C have been very busy exploring the absorbency of different materials. We wanted to find out which paper is the most absorbent and would be best to mop up our spills. We tested newspaper, paper towel , toilet paper, sugar paper and computer paper. Most of the children predicted that toilet paper would be the most absorbent however our tests proved otherwise...

After all of the fun we had using the test equipment and gathering the data, it was to analyse our results.

The overall winner was the paper towel!

Tomorrow we plan to follow up this lesson by finding out which teacher uses the most absorbent paper towel at home. Let's hope that everyone remembers to bring a sample for us to test! Keep posted for the results...

Thank you

Dear Parents,

I would like to thank you for your contributions towards our upcoming art project. The children will have great fun using the milk bottles to make some fantastic creations! We will be sure to upload some photographs for you as soon as they are finished.

Miss Campbell