Yummy Science - Hokey Pokey

Poetry Projects

Here are the first of our amazing poetry projects. Our task was to prepare a presentation using Windows Movie Maker to illustrate the poetic devices used in popular songs.  We hope you enjoy watching them.

Saxton's Gold Rush

On Friday the whole school headed off to Saxton's Fields for our first ever Saxton's GoldRush.  It was a huge success and everyone looked like they had heaps of muddy fun. Well done to Room 8 who put in a great effort.  Can you spot yourself through the mud?
Saxton's GoldRush on PhotoPeach

Choral Chant

As part of our reading rotation we all performed choral chants.  We were practicing varying the pace and pitch of our voices, talking in unison and individually, in rounds and adding silence to our performance. Can you spot these techniques in this performance?

Nonsense Poems

During our guided reading sessions with Ms McCauley we were reading the nonsense poem "There's a wonton in my pompom." We used this as inspiration to write our own nonsense poems.  This is a poem that one group created together.

There's a hippopotamus and a ritapotamus  in a pineapple under the sea
The cat sat on the mat while he was eating a ratty rat rat
The digging dog was digging up a very dirty delicious disgusting bone
Bob the slob ate a blob while he was slopping on a a very grobble grob grob
The troll was laughing out loud while licking a live goat LOL
Cate made a cake while eating a characteristic carrot coloury cat
Charlie chewing a giant finger while a chinga was chewing caramel
So I better go home and find a new finger.

We hoped you enjoyed our nonsense poem.

Science Experiments

In science we are learning about chemical change.  Yesterday we observed chemical changes that involved fizzing and foaming and a chemical change that produces heat, this is called an exothermic reaction.  We mixed hydrogen peroxide and yeast together, we observed that the temperature rose form 15 degrees to 35 degrees.  We then made elephants toothpaste.  This chemical change involved both heat production and fizzing and foaming.

Animated Poems using PhotoPeach

During our reading rotation we used PhotoPeach to animate poems that we wrote or liked.  We hope you enjoy them.
super heros on PhotoPeach


Wolf by Sam on PhotoPeach


It is Murder on PhotoPeach


summer by brianna on PhotoPeach


Beautiful on PhotoPeach


Winter Haiku By Grace on PhotoPeach


Cafine plus sugar on PhotoPeach


Weather on PhotoPeach


Sleep on PhotoPeach


Frogs by Rebekah on PhotoPeach


rainbow on PhotoPeach


Snow By findlay on PhotoPeach


haiku on PhotoPeach


jump on PhotoPeach


turtle eating on PhotoPeach


Squirrel on PhotoPeach

Learn about poetic devices.

Never Give Up

In music this week we studied the Protest Song "Never Give Up" by Kenbe La Rap.  This song was written in response to the massive earthquake which struck Haiti in 2010. Kenbe La means ‘Never Give Up’ in Haitian Creole. It is a vehicle for hope in the face of a tragedy that is literally incomprehensible.“Union Fait La Force” – United We Stand.

Protest Art

Look at the wonderful Protest Art that we produced with Ms McCauley.

The Last of our blabberized poems

More Blabber Poems