This week we have been learning all about ‘Rainforest Food Chains’. We have watched funny videos, read interesting articles (including this one) and then today we had fun creating our own digital food chain tales using a simple and free internet program called Little Bird Tales. Check out some of our tales……. Click to… Read more Food Chain Tales
We had a lot of fun making balloon cars. Unfortunately they did not go as far or as fast as we expected. Perhaps our straws were not thick enough? Our criteria for success was if they moved at all. For instructions and cool video check here….. ps – Excuse the water mark on the video… Read more Balloon Cars
A few weeks ago Crossmaglen had a Pyjama day to raise money to help our local team Toormi Thunder participate in the Kokoda Challenge on the Gold Coast. The day started with some delicious pancakes. (I must admit wearing Pyjamas to work felt slightly strange! Especially pyjamas with shoes on!!). Despite wearing pyjamas… Read more Static Electricity and Pyjamas
There is so much to learn and investigate about Energy. This week we continued learning about solar energy. First up we made Solar Ovens. We used shoe boxes, tin foil and glad wrap. It was fantastic having Romi work with the K-1 kids and so wonderful to see the primary kids working together and doing… Read more Solar Ovens
This week we continued our investigation of Energy by celebrating our major source of external energy – The Sun. Funnily enough it was yet another rainy day so we read the fabulous book Sun Bread by Elisa Kleven and baked our own sunshiny loaf. (click the link to find the recipe.) It… Read more Sun Bread on a rainy day
Hello hello and welcome to 2015 at Crossmaglen Public School. Here we are making a Glass Bottle Orchestra as a part of our science unit investigating sound. Today we investigated the relationship between the amount of water in a jar and the sound it makes. We found out that the more water there is in… Read more Glass Bottle Orchestra
To finish and celebrate our English/Science/Art term unit with Mrs Booth, Crossmaglen students had an overnight camp. Grade 3, 4 and 6 students had been studying the novel Watership Down and the whole school, kindergarten to year 6, were investigating feral animals, pests and their impact on the environment and humans through the science unit… Read more Crossie Camp Feral!
Today Rahni, Olivia and Tilly spent the day with Mrs Booth and Rom while the seniors were on an excursion with Principal, Mrs Cavanagh. Mrs Booth had been inspired by the Bronwyn Bancroft art work from South Grafton Public School teacher Ms McLennan’s 1/2 class. So the day was themed around the fantastic picture book… Read more Our Bush Journey
Students finished the Epic Citadel English/Science project this week and many parents and family members came to view their work during the presentation afternoon. The students published their character descriptions in the Nova Citadel library. For information about this project go to this earlier post: Epic Citadel/MinecraftEdu. All the students have loved this project and being… Read more Nova Citadel MinecraftEdu English Science Project
The Marshmallow Challenge is a remarkably fun and instructive design exercise that encourages teams to experience simple but profound lessons in collaboration, innovation and creativity. The task is simple: in 18 minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 2o sticks of spaghetti, one metre of tape, one metre of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow… Read more The Marshmallow Challenge