Multiplication Poster

In maths we have been learning multiplication. We recently made multiplication posters and my equation was  5x95 and one of my examples where if 5x9=45 what would 5x95 be? The add you answer with 5x5 and theres your answer!

How the Water Cycle Works

How the Water Cycle Works

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Seihara

Have you ever wondered when you were drinking a glass of water if a dinosaur may have stepped in it? I am guessing you probably did not realise that water is recycled and all the water that is on earth has always been here, therefore a dinosaur could have come into contact with the very glass of water you just drank. The water cycle is a continuous cycle that repeats a number of steps to complete the cycle. If you put water in a closed container and placed it in the sun or add a heat source, you will see the fascinating water cycle. The water cycle repeats three main steps, evaporation, condensation and precipitation. These three steps give us the water we drink every day, the water that you drink could have been in this cycle for years and years. It all begins with the first step, evaporation.

Evaporation: Evaporation is when it is a nice hot day and these little micro droplets change their form from water into water vapour. The water droplets are so small it is physically impossible to see their appearance. Water vapour is water forming a type of gas. This gas is also known as water vapour. It is invisible, unlike other forms which are just clear. Water vapor is very light, so light that it can float in the air. The higher it goes the colder it gets and when the water vapor goes that high, it forms into a little cloud. Therefore leading us to condensation.

Condensation: Condensation is the process of the gas forming into a liquid. When that has happened the water that used to be gas are forming together to get bigger and bigger. Its inflated all the way so the next part has something to do,and the cloud still has the water stored in it so when the cloud gets big enough, that brings us to the next part, precipitation.

Precipitation: Precipitation is when it is a rainy day and you are forced to stay inside so you do not dirty your clothes mum told you to keep clean. When the water drops fall down out of the clouds, it can fall down as rain, sleet, snow or hail. This happens because the capacity of the cloud is limited and is like a balloon popping! And all the water is stored in it so the water all pops out.



Every bit of the cycle makes a big difference. Each part of the water cycle depends on each other. Without evaporation there would be no clouds in the first place? Therefore the water cycle could not continue on to the next stage. Water is something we all need to have in order to live. There are a lot more interesting things around us that we do not notice everyday and are very helpful but underappreciated, but that is a topic for someone else to discover. I bet now you’ll be thinking about this cycle next time you take a drink.

Book Week

GSS Book Week 2019





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Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!





Here are some photos from our time:





My book week character was: Mrs Trunchbull from Matilda

                                                                                       

Water Experiment

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colours painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house points. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here is my picture from our race.