Lesmurdie Senior High School Visit

Students from Room 10 and Room 15 had the opportunity to experience life at a high school for one day, during Week 7, this term. Year 7 students and teachers hopped on a bus and headed up the hill to Lesmurdie Senior High School. Students had the opportunity to experience lessons in a high school atmosphere. They enjoyed watching Senior Lesmurdie students in the Music room, had a chance to view Art throughout the school, created by the high school students. They discovered the topics they would experience in Design and Technology.

Best of all, students had the opportunity to make 'Pancakes'. They combined the ingredients and then cooked them and the best part we all enjoyed eating them.

Students had a terrific morning at Lesmurdie and we all returned to Wattle Grove around 12.30pm. 

Students also had the opportunity to play a game inside the gymnasium. The students really enjoyed playing the game, as it involved using apparatus and was based on rules of a baseball game.

SCIENCE IN ROOM 10

 Last week in science, we were looking at gases. We filled bottles with different ingredients and observed the bottles, recorded the data and analyzed our hypothesis.

First, we measured the ingredients, we filled 4 bottles with different ingrediemts.

Bottle 1: Water and Yeast

Bottle 2: Water, Yeast and Sugar

Bottle 3: Water and Sugar

Bottle 4: Yeast and Sugar

Then we placed a balloon over the top of the bottle. We were hoping for a reaction to happen as the gas built up in the bottle. The gas was created from a chemical change within the ingredients.

We had to wait to see, which ingredients were going to react and give off a gas. The gas would in turn, inflate the balloon, which was placed over the top of the bottles.

Each group placed their bottles around the garden stonework, and waited for 30 minutes. Everyone was hoping for a reaction to occur.

GROUP  1

ROOM 10

  HAS CAUGHT THE TRAVEL

BUG AGAIN!!!

To celebrate WA Day, Room 10 transformed their classroom into a terrific southwest town.

When you step into Room 10 , you will, for a short time, experience life in a rural setting, celebrating all the accomplishments and history of this small country town.

WELCOME TO

HARVEY....

As a team, all the students from Room 10, collected items and created information, related to this terrific, southwest town. Students also had the opportunity to paper mache' oranges to hang on the tree, to celebrate the orange industry at Harvey. 

Tanisha also decorated the door into Room 10, and under each orange hanging on the tree, Tanisha created a "Did You Know?" question. As you lift the orange up, there is an interesting fact underneath for you to read about Harvey.

 Students cut out cardboard into a cow shape, then painted the cardboard to represent a cow. Other students brought into the class, their toy cows and pigs. Along with the animals, Teaghan brought along some hay, and together, this created our farm setting in the classroom. The students insisted our cardboard cow had a name, they decided the cow's name was to be "Bessy". So, we welcome Bessy to Room 10.

DID YOU KNOW?
May Gibbs, author of the 'Gumnut Babies, Snugglepot and Cuddlepie" was raised in Harvey. She came to Australia at the age of 4, with her family. The family bought land at Harvey and May Gibbs lived there from 4 years of age. It must have been all the beautiful Gum trees in the area that inspired her to write books about the Gumnut Babies.

Room 10 celebrate their hard work creating a great southwest town in their classroom. 

Room 10 had several classes visiting, to discover the history of Harvey. Miss Ruddick's class were interested in listening to the students from Room 10, as they explained some of the historical facts about Harvey.