Castle Building

This week we have been learning about Medieval times. We decided to put our passion to the test. We decided we were going to build our own castle. It took us only one day. During the stressful process there were dark clouds starting to form in the sky. Even worse, we were painting outside! But we didn't give up. we pushed it to the limit and as a result we all got drizzled on!! Our next post will have the finished castle!

Science week

During Science week we cross grouped across the 4 classes in our Syndicate to carry out different science tasks.

We made hot air balloons that when fired up in the playground either caught in the trees or flew right over to Rosmini. We also made  rockets with ballons and straws. In room 4 we experimented with balloons.

 In our own class we worked on Chemistry tasks that involved decanting, filtering and evaporating to separate 3 mixtures. It was so exciting watching the sugar crystals boiling up on the sides of the beaker.

Lighting the bunsen burner was scarey but great and we trialled how to put these out safely before we started.

It was alot of fun.

Welcome to Room 1's Blog

We are a Year 5 and 6 class of enthusiastic learners and we are designing our very first blog.
This week we are researching Science with a emphasis on Adaptations in Animals after a Zoo visit. We have our own school Inquiry design and it uses these steps:
Immersion, need to know, questions, using resources, information gathering , recording and YES! which is evaluate and share. At the moment we are gathering information to answer our questions.