Polluted Water

For the last week of our Waterwatch incursion, Julie brought in a tub of clean, drinkable water. After we had settled down in a circle, we each got a small canister, and on the front there was a labeled part which said something like: Garry Guzzler, Cameron Caughtafew, Dan Demolisher, school kids, and much more.

Julie started to tell a story which was about a platypus named Puddles. One day he saw a strange red rock floating in the water, and decided to follow it. The red rock wasn't a rock at all, it was a canoe with people rowing in it.

As he followed the rock, lots of polluted material gets washed into the river that Puddles is swimming in, such as: litter, grass clippings, sand, car oil, paint, dirt.. theres so many!

In the end, the water looked a lot dirtier than it was at the beginning. It was all brown with rubbish floating on top. It didn't look very clean or drinkable anymore.

Poor Puddles!

Waterwatch Macro-invertibrates

On the 16th of August, Julie from Melbourne Water came over to teach us about 'Water Bugs'. After she had finished with the other grade, she brought in some trays and put two on each table.

Before we started, we had a talk about different species of water bugs. Julie showed us some pictures like: a dragonfly larva, damselfly larva, water mites, leeches, bloodworms and sea-snails. We also talked about the difference between: Macro-inverterbrates and Micro-inverterbrates. Our main focus was Macro-inverterbrates, which are water bugs that you can see, and don't have back-bones.

After the talk, we split up into groups of three or four. Maya, Parnian and Charlotte and I worked together to find bugs, which were in the trays that Julie carried in, using the a sheet which contained all the bugs we could find in the tray.

In the end, the four of us had found: 3 bloodworms, 3 fish-tiny tadpole looking fish, and lots of water mites. When Julie had tipped all the water and the water bugs back in a bucket, she gave all of 3/4A, rather large stickers. The picturse on the stickers were: frogs, snails, dragonflies, ladybugs and spiders. I thought that session was very fun and interesting, I can't wait untill our next lesson, which will be in 2 weeks time!

Measuring with Trundle Wheels

Yesterday on the 26th of May, Our whole class went outside, to measure with the trundle wheels. We hadto measure the lines on the FFG. We had to form five groups. We all had either 3 or 4 people. First, we had to draw a table in our Maths Book. Then we would write what we were measuring, then write down our estimations. Most of the people did the same things. There were: Two square court perimetre, Blue circle, runnig track perimetre.... In the end we all compared our results. And those numbers were quite big....

Crazy Hair day

Today, the 11th of March, 2011, The whole school had crazy hair to fundraise for Leaukemia-cancer. We all had to donate a gold coin. 3/4A all had very crazy hair. Most of us had hairspray, some people made their own crazy hair inventions. We all took some photos of our crazy hairs. For example, I had pegs in my hair, Miss Jeffery had a pink wig, Alice had a beehive hairstyle. It was a pretty crazy day, and I think everyone thought it was great.