Showing posts with label class activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label class activities. Show all posts

Monday, 17 September 2012

Bundoora Park Excursion.

Our Grade 1/2 classes had an excursion to Bundoora Park Farm last Friday. They had a wonderful day with alot of fun activities. The children made scones, feed baby goats, petted lots of animals. milked a cow, had pony rides, went on a tractor ride and played in the playground.

Making Scones

Churning Butter

Feeding the chickens

Sneaking a pat with the turkey

Time for Guinea Pig cuddles

Feeding the baby goats

Feeding the sheep
 
Milking the cow

Tractor ride to see kangaroos and emus
 
Eating our scones...yummy!
What a great day.
 
 

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

The Big Top

This claymation animation was made last year by Grade 5/6H for the Art Show. Click on this link to have a look: http://youtu.be/Dx39R5lEu1E


 

Grade 5/6: SYMMETRY

 

sym·me·try

[sim-i-tree] 
noun, plural sym·me·tries.
1. the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a plane, line, or point; regularity of form or arrangement in terms of like, reciprocal, or corresponding parts.
2. the proper or due proportion of the parts of a body or whole to one another with regard to size and form; excellence of proportion.
3. beauty based on or characterized by such excellence of proportion.
4. Mathematics .
a. a geometrical or other regularity that is possessed by a mathematical object and is characterized by the operations that leave the object invariant: A circle has rotational symmetry and reflection symmetry.
b. a rotation or translation of a plane figure that leaves the figure unchanged although its position may be altered.
5. Physics . a property of a physical system that is unaffected by certain mathematical transformations as, for example, the work done by gravity on an object, which is not affected by any change in the position from which the potential energy of the object is measured.