South School X-Country

Congratulations to every one who participated this morning and to the many people that achieved their personl goals. The training paid off and we were lucky it wasn't a frosty morning like yesterday. Thanks to Mr Dunn for organising the event and the other people that helped him. To the Room 17 people that made the interschool event next Friday at Weber School, don't let the training programme slip. There are some big hills to conquer out there!

Mobius Strip

Today we had eight people missing from class. Rather than our usual mathematics programme, we did some investigating with Mobius Strips. Experiment one involved twisting a cylinder of paper 180 degrees. We had to predict what we thought might happen when we chopped through the middle, the entire way around. Experiment two involved 360 degrees (or two half turns). Again we made a prediction. Experiment three was an investigation we were curious about. Micah Jaye was wondering what might happen when you join two mobius strips together and chop them seperately. Clever thinking if you ask me!!! Check out our individual blogs to see a fotobabble recording of our hypothesis and results we figured out today during maths

Hoop Hoop Horray - $180.40 Cake Stall

A tremendous effort everybody - the goodies looked delicious. We managed to raise $180.40 from todays effort which continues to see our fundraising pool grow. A big thank you to Princess Phillipa who helped price up all the baked goods. Also to Karen McNicol and Skye Sheild who helped down town with the stall. You guys can bake me morning tea any time!

Book Reviews - Want a Great Read?

To say the Hunger Games trilogy is a popular read at the moment is a ginormous understatement. Room 17 people have been reading some great books at the moment so we have reviewed some of our favourites. The purpose of a review is to identify what you like (we chose books we enjoyed reading) and outline some of the key points so others who read our reviews may interested in reading it themselves. Check out our book cover designs (the reviews are hidden inside) and click on some personal blogs on the right hand side shortly to read some reviews we have written.

Week 2 Home Learning

Week2 and the challenges keep getting bigger and better.
Here is what a few people got up to…
Brady – he has some elderly neighbours that find it
difficult to carry/lift heavy things. He helped his neighbours out by moving
some rather large concrete slabs. Just think how big our muscles will be Brady
after all that physical labour!
Monique – she had a games night challenge with her family,
playing speed, (a card game). Monique I feel a challenge coming on as Speed is
one of my all time favourites! Lets see
how fast you really are!
Ethan McNicol – he did a good deed for his friend doing some
scooter work. I don’t quite get the whole thing but I think they were trying to
put something new on the scooter, it didn’t quite fit, so some modifications
needed to be made! Hope the scooter is scootering well Ethan!
Paula – we have another masterchef in class people. Check
out this menu – Eastern Bites entrée, Gourmet burgers and potato gems main and
homemade hokey pokey and vanilla icecream. When am I coming to your house for
dinner Paula???
Daniel – he completed a letter extraordinaire to his hero –
Simon Gault. You might know Simon. He is a judge on masterchef which is
screening on TV one at the moment. Daniel is desperately hoping Simon replies
to his letter as he included his contact details in the letter.

Cadbury Choccies - mmmmmmmmmmyum!

The boxes of chocolates arrived today so we dished them out and did some swapsies. We are busy selling boxes to help fundraise to subsidise the cost of our camp this year. We are heading to Forest Lakes on the 15th October and the more fundraising we do, the lower the cost will be. I witnessed an enthusaistic sales person at 3 o'clock who approached Princess Phillipa and ever so politely asked if she would be interested into purchasing a block. She told me the sales pitch was so good that she couldn't say no. We have eleven boxes left in class for energetic sales people so get busy selling people!

Phil Collins "Gorilla Drummer" Cadbury Ad (Dairy Milk)