Violin Lessons

Every Thursday I do violin lessons with my teacher Miss Burr. There are three other girls in my class. We have learnt  tricks and how to read music. Violin is a complicated subject and takes years to completely understand. Here is a picture of us playing:

GSS Book Week 2019

Book Week     

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 favorite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favorite 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:  

        

The water cycle

The Water Cycle

I am learning to inform my audience through an explanation

By Maggie

Have you ever stopped while it is raining and wondered where the rain comes from? Well, rain is an important part of something called the water cycle. The water cycle is made up of three main parts, evaporation, condensation and precipitation, rain is part of precipitation. Did you know we can’t make new water? The freshwater on Earth is billions of years old because of the water cycle! Yes, that's right the water cycle recycles water! Right now you could be drinking water that dinosaurs splashed around in! The water cycle helps water travel across the world. Each stage is as important as the other because without just one of these there would be NO water cycle! Evaporation is where it all begins.

Evaporation is how water becomes water vapour and forms clouds, a very interesting process.The sun heats up water until it is over 100 degrees celsius causing it to evaporate and turn into an invisible gas called water vapour. The water vapour rises up to the sky and meets other water vapour. When there is enough water vapour they connect forming clouds and become visible. Evaporation is an amazing and important process that we could not live without.

Condensation comes after evaporation. Condensation is the process in which the gas form changes back to the liquid form, the reverse of evaporation. The water vapour in the clouds changes to liquid or ice when it is in the sky because of the freezing cold temperatures. Since it is water it is almost impossible for the air to hold it leading us to precipitation.

When the air can’t hold the water anymore it falls. This process is called precipitation. The water falls as either rain, snow, sleet or hail. Water that soaks into the ground is called groundwater and water that falls into big bodys of water is called streamflow. Sometimes water builds up in a underground hole, this hole is called an aquifer.

The water cycle is made up of three main parts evaporation, condensation and precipitation. We need the water cycle and we are lucky we have it. Thanks to the water cycle we still have the same amount of water on Earth that we had millions of years ago.  In conclusion, the water cycle is an important part of our life and we need to work together to stop wasting water, because remember there will never be any more water.

Water Care

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Water care 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 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. My group was in the top three best filters.

Cross Country

Cross Country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived.  In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colors painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house points.  Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.