God is Holy - the Joseph story

We have been reading in the Bible about Joseph because we are learning about Egypt and the 'Rise and Fall of Empires'.  We can learn from history so that we don't make the same mistakes as the people before us.  We can also learn the right things to do!  We thought about Joseph and what we could learn from his life.  Here are our ideas:

Joseph knew a lot about God and trusted Him.  We can learn a lot from him!

The Creation Station # 3

One of the activities got us looking through microscopes to see leaves and onion skins 'up close'.  The onion skins looked blue under the microscope!  There are amazing patterns on leaves - if you get a chance, have a look for yourself!

Joshua and Richard looking very scientific...

The Creation Station # 2

Gabriel has a bottle of oil and water - can you see how they don't mix?  Even when the children tried REALLY hard to shake up the bottles, they couldn't get the oil and water to mix together!

...but it was fun trying, wasn't it!

The Creation Station #1

A group of children at school worked with Mrs Little to make a 'Creation Station' set of activities as part of our school Science Fair.  Room 10 was the first class to go around the activities and we were really impressed with the work Mrs Little's group had done.  Here is an activity that Grace had fun with:

                                                                                                    

This is how air moves across the wings of a plane and makes the plane 'lift' into the sky!

Music to our ears...

We really enjoyed a visit from Mr Bob Bickerton on Wednesday.  He talked to us about musical instruments and played about 16 different ones for us to hear.  He was very funny and very clever at playing.  Here he is with his harp:

The harp had the most beautiful sound.  It was our favourite instrument to listen to from the show. 
Thanks Mr Bickerton!

Using strategies in maths

A group in Room 10 has been thinking about...thinking!  How do we work out problems in maths?  How do we get to an answer?  Our thinking is our 'strategy'.  Here are some examples.  The problem was about how many planks of wood you would need to build a pig pen!  The answer was 70 but you can see that there are different ways to work it out when we looked at the different sides of the pig pen:

Great strategies Joel W, Christian and Hamish!

Mixed up stories!

Here are two more mixed up stories.  We hope you enjoy them!

Anya's mixed up story is all about 'girl power'!!!

Richard's mixed up story is for Star Wars fans!