My Family of Facts Poster

In maths this term I made a family of facts poster. As you can see I did six times seven. I worked independently on this and had lots of fun. 

Famous people in the early church

This week in room six we were learning about famous people in the early churches . Me and my buddy, Rishmikaa made a poster about Phoebe. Phoebe was a co-worker of Paul, Phoebe was also a deacon. A deacon is a person who works as a co- worker or has the role of ministering and preaching within the churches.

Here is a photo of our poster:

How does the Water Cycle work?

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Vaiola

When drinking a bottle of water have you ever stopped and wondered where that water came from? Did you know water has been around us for millions of years all because of an amazing cycle called the water cycle. The term cycle means a set of steps or a series of steps which repeats over and over again. 97 percent of earth's water is salt water, 3 percent is freshwater and sadly only 1 percent of that water is actually drinkable.There are three main stages in the water cycle, evaporation, condensation and precipitation. If you were to remove any of these stages the water cycle would not be complete. Let’s start with evaporation

Evaporation is the first stage in the water cycle. Evaporation is a process by which a liquid changes into a gas called water vapour or aqueous vapour. Aqueous vapour is another name for water vapour. Evaporation happens when the sun heats up the water in lakes, rivers, ponds and oceans. Most of the water turns into water vapour. The water vapour then rises up into the sky it then forms into a cloud. Water vapour is invisible so you can not see it rising into the sky. An example of water vapour in our homes is a boiling kettle. When the kettle is boiled the steam from the kettle rises. Once you have noticed the steam has vanished it has turned into water vapour. Now to our next stop condensation.

Condensation is the second stage in the water cycle. Condensation is the change of which water vapour in the clouds cools down and turns back into tiny little droplets of water. An example of condensation is when you breath on a mirror. The warmth of your breath hits the cold mirror forming tiny little water droplets on the mirror. Some of the water vapour turns into liquid. Thousands of tiny water droplets form on the mirror. This is called condensation. Condensation is the opposite of evaporation. Once condensation is over precipitation takes its role. 

Precipitation is the final stage in the water cycle. Precipitation is a process by which water falls from a cloud. It can also appear not just as water but as hail, sleet and snow. Then the rain falls into rivers, lakes and oceans. After precipitation it starts all over again from evaporation back to precipitation.

These are the three stages of the water cycle. Evaporation is a process by which water changes into a gas called water vapour. Condensation is the change of which water vapour in the clouds turn back into little tiny droplets of water then last but not least precipitation. Precipitation is a process by which water falls from the clouds. What an interesting process this water has been through just to get in your drink bottle.

GSS Book Week 2019

Authors, Illustrators, Books, Book Week, Parade, Event, 2019 

Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!

Here are some photos from our time:

 

My book week character was: 

Hermione Granger 

Watercare

Watercare

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Watercare come to teach us more about the water.  We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households.  Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school.  Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments.  We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best