INDIGENOUS PEOPLE USED THE STARS AS A GUIDE

This website (Burra Gathering) will be very useful when you do your Looking into Space booklet and you need to read about Aboriginal people navigating using the stars. On that site you will also be able to see the Aboriginal seasons for those of you doing the Inquiry Card which asks you to research Aboriginal seasons. Enjoy your finding out this week, everybody! 🙂 Mrs Veary

Aboriginal people have been observing the sky for many thousands of years. Some Aboriginal people still use the stars as a guide for hunting and food gathering. They have worked out how to read the skies and stars to tell the weather, what food will be available and to navigate. In Burra Gathering, you wll find Wala Wala using the stars to go home. Click on ‘Dry Season’. Then complete the chart – “Told us – Made us Wonder”.

Weir Excursion

Room 6 students have made a great photostory of their Weir Excursion to sample macro-invertebrates. Thank you to parents and Tracey Muir from Cape to Cape Catchments for their help and for making it a great experience. We loved meeting real scientists to see how scientists work and how important their work is in the real world.

This is the first photostory Room 6 students have made and they worked amazingly well to create this as a collaborative effort! Thank you to Izzy for leading the team and doing a lot of the writing and to: Sajer, Lazane, Seb and all the other wonderful IT helpers. (Let me know if I’ve left your name off this list and I’ll add it.) 🙂

SAJER’S JOKES #3

Well done to: Robbi, Seb, Lazane, Sam, Oliver and Kayne! You got it right! Why did the rocket lose it’s job? Because it got fired!!! 😎

You have also earned 1 block each for getting it right. See Sajer for your block.

Joke #4:

Question: Why did E.T. have such big eyes?

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

This site HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE has some fascinating photos of our solar system up close and awesome! Have a look. Write a comment about the photo that most interested you and say why. 🙂

This is the OFFICIAL HUBBLE SITE where you can see the telescope itself and many of its images.

FUN TIME – MARS ANIMATION

After talking about the next step being Mars exploration in our Spinning in Space Inquiry, I thought you’d enjoy this humorous animation about any future “Exploration of Mars”. Enjoy it. 😎

Galileo and Telescopes

Fantastic work constructing your amazing spacecraft last Friday!!! Pat on the back to everybody and to all the mums and dads who helped.

This week we are coming to the end of our Inquiry cards and we are “Looking into Space” at the star constellations. We use telescopes to see what is up there in space and here are some videos to show you how they are used. You need the second video in your “Looking into Space” booklet about Galileo! Enjoy learning about this. 🙂

This video shows us different types of telescopes.

This video shows another of Galileo’s discoveries.

All about Telescopes

This website for kids explains how telescopes work and the different kinds of telescopes you can get. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/telescopes.htm

INTERESTING TELESCOPE FACTS has some interesting up-to-date facts about modern telescopes.

Early Astronomers – Copernicus, Galileo, Newton

Early Astronomers – is a website where you can find out all about Copernicus, Galileo and Isaac Newton.

What important discoveries did they make which changed the way people thought about their world and space? Write a comment to let me know what you have found out.

Who are these men?

1. 2.

3. Here are some interesting videos about their lives. This will help you match them with their pictures.

COPERNICUS

GALILEO

NEWTON

Studyladder Maths

Some of you got your Studyladder passwords this afternoon. You can use this at school or at home, but you will need to get in through Dolphinkids the way I showed you. Go to the right-hand side of the page and look for your link under Our Websites. You should see Studyladder…..Group. Click on that to get into your login page and you will then only need to put in your password to enter.

Tomorrow in Rotating Maths Groups everybody will get a chance to start their work on Studyladder and have their passwords. We will keep one at school and one at home.

Don’t forget ….. this Friday is Spelling Test and hand in your spelling contract with 5 ACTIVITIES DONE! If you need to do a catch-up at home, remember to do that before Friday!

Great work today, people! Well done!

Mrs Veary 😎

SAJER’S JOKES #2

Lovely to see those suggestions but not quite right! The answer is:

Why did the teacher wear dark glasses?

Because she had such a bright class! 😆

(Yes, you were quite close, Lazane!)

JOKE #2:

Question: How did the rocket lose his job?

I wonder how many people will get this one? 😎 Mrs Veary

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
29	30

Well done to: Robbi, Seb, Lazane, Sam, Oliver and Kayne! You got it right! Why did the rocket lose it’s job? Because it got fired!!! 😎

You have also earned 1 block each for getting it right. See Sajer for your block.

Joke #4:

Question: Why did E.T. have such big eyes?

This site HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE has some fascinating photos of our solar system up close and awesome! Have a look. Write a comment about the photo that most interested you and say why. 🙂

This is the OFFICIAL HUBBLE SITE where you can see the telescope itself and many of its images.

After talking about the next step being Mars exploration in our Spinning in Space Inquiry, I thought you’d enjoy this humorous animation about any future “Exploration of Mars”. Enjoy it. 😎

Fantastic work constructing your amazing spacecraft last Friday!!! Pat on the back to everybody and to all the mums and dads who helped.

This video shows us different types of telescopes.

This video shows another of Galileo’s discoveries.

This website for kids explains how telescopes work and the different kinds of telescopes you can get. http://www.kidsastronomy.com/telescopes.htm

INTERESTING TELESCOPE FACTS has some interesting up-to-date facts about modern telescopes.

Early Astronomers – is a website where you can find out all about Copernicus, Galileo and Isaac Newton.

What important discoveries did they make which changed the way people thought about their world and space? Write a comment to let me know what you have found out.

Who are these men?

1. 2.

3.

Here are some interesting videos about their lives. This will help you match them with their pictures.

Tomorrow in Rotating Maths Groups everybody will get a chance to start their work on Studyladder and have their passwords. We will keep one at school and one at home.

Don’t forget ….. this Friday is Spelling Test and hand in your spelling contract with 5 ACTIVITIES DONE! If you need to do a catch-up at home, remember to do that before Friday!

Great work today, people! Well done!

Lovely to see those suggestions but not quite right! The answer is:

Why did the teacher wear dark glasses?

Because she had such a bright class! 😆

(Yes, you were quite close, Lazane!)

JOKE #2:

Question: How did the rocket lose his job?

I wonder how many people will get this one? 😎 Mrs Veary

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