Fruit Tingle Graphs

 This term we did Activity Maths every Thursday. We had a lovely time visiting all the different activities that each teacher was running. There were five different groups and we saw a different teacher each week. In Lauren's class we looked at graphing and data with.....fruit tingles!

Why are there always less of your favourite colour in a packet of fruit tingles? Is it a secret plan by the lolly people to make you buy more? Or does every packet actually have the same amount of each colour? Do they even make the same amount of each colour at the factory? Perhaps all the colours mixed up and random so you just get what you get. We decided to become maths detectives and solve the mystery once and for all by gathering some data.

We opened lots of packets of fruit tingles and stacked up each of the colours to make a 3D graph. We drew a picture of it in our groups and then we combined our data (information stored in numbers) to make a class graph (our data presented as a sort of a picture).

Here is what we discovered from the data:

* There were more of some colours than others in a packet (eg. some packets had more pink, some had more green).

* The colours in each packet weren't arranged in an obvious pattern, this suggests they're put into packets at random.

* Each packet was different.

* As we combined the data over the weeks, the numbers of each colour went up and down.

* The more packets we opened and recorded, the more even the numbers of each colour became.

* If Lauren opens enough packets of fruit tingles, she will get lots of pink ones in the end!

*Fruit tingles taste fabulous!! 

 

Easter Madness!

What a marvellous week we had before the holidays... it was a week brimming with awesome Easter activities. We did Easter science, Easter writing, Easter maths and of course, a bit of Easter craft. We even got an email from the Easter Bilby!

 

I liked making the bilby baskets. Lydia

I liked doing the Easter bonnet parade and showing the hats to everyone. I went around and said "Happy Easter". Mariana

I liked making my bilby basket and naming the bilbies – Hermione, Firestone and Raven. Evie

I really liked colouring our bilby baskets, I used yellow, black, red and orange and green.I was a bit scared when we put the egg in the bottle 'cause I thought the fire alarm might go off and everyone would run out for nothing. Elliot

The easter bilby sent us an email! Clarrie

I liked doing science, we dyed some eggs with food dye. Nicholas and Milly

We put an egg into a bottle using a match in the bottle. Riley

I liked when we did the parade and it was kind of a bit quite. The was good it helped us to look at the hats that everyone had made. Leila

Making the easter bonnet and drawing on it was awesome. Damon

I liked colouring in the bilby baskets and making them. Lizzy 

Our egg in a bottle created a vacuum. Alisha

I enjoyed writing this blog. Audrey

I enjoyed marbling the eggs and making the bilby baskets. Aimee

When we did the vacuum egg it was sort of like an oven, it looked like the smoke was cooking the egg. Goldie

I wrote a story where the evil bottle ate the Sensai egg. Daniel N

The day the library came to us!

Today the Preston Library came to visit us here at Bell Primary School. The librarians, Coralie, Louise and Leo travelled to our school to tell us about The Olden Days. We learnt about bushrangers and we played a quiz where we guessed whether the pictures were of bushrangers or someone's uncle. We also learnt that little kids in the olden days caught leeches and sold them to the doctor. We discovered that in the Olden Days the kids made fun by themselves because they didn't have electronic games or fancy toys. They played marbles, went sledding in the mud, they made billy carts and played with spinning tops. Not everyone travelled by car back then.... if you were rich you had a car but it wasn't allowed to go faster than a man walking.

Bushranger or Uncle?

There was one more person who visited us today...... except it wasn't a person, it was Drakis the Library Dragon!!!! He was gigantic and green and he had a big, fat tail and a big fat belly. He was shiny but he didn't have scales. He had big green wings, friendly yellow eyes and big white teeth. He likes to dance, he showed us an old game called quoits. 1/2LK were such good listeners that four of us were chosen to play quoits with Drakis - Mariana, Alisha, Emile and Dean. He hugged Alisha and Mariana. He was very cheeky and he bumped Emile with his tail when Emile was playing quoits.

We loved having the library come to visit and we learnt heaps and heaps. On behalf of 1/2LK we would like to thank them for coming to visit. We love books and next time it's our turn to visit them at the Preston Library.

We would like to say more but now we have to go. See you on our next blog post!

Ireland's special day in 1/2LK

Today we are 1/2LK because Moya's away so 1/2L have been visiting for the day. We are all wearing GREEN today for St Patrick's Day! We're helping the Irish celebrate their special national day and we've learnt lots of stuff about Ireland. We watched a slide show and we learnt to sing Molly Malone which is a spooky Irish song about a ghost. We heard an Irish story about a big potato and we practiced our Irish accents. Before lunch we watched some Irish dancing, it was wonderful!

We've also had a special science lesson for St Patrick's day (we love science!). We learnt about dissolving using cold water jelly and normal jelly. We made green jelly with snakes in it because the story of St Patrick talks about him leading the snakes out of Ireland and into the water. We feel sad for the snakes but happy to be eating jelly!!

Here are some of the things we did and discovered today:

I learnt that Ireland is part of Great Britain. Sarah

I'm looking forward to computers later in the day. Sean

I enjoyed making jelly. We made cold water jelly with no gelatin. Jamil

I enjoyed stirring the Aeroplane jelly in the bowl and watching it go all blobby. Riley

I enjoyed being very green! Romy

I discovered that gelatin is made of cows' hooves! Aimee

I enjoyed playing leprechauns and leprechaun pets outside at playtime. Audrey

I enjoyed playing with Audrey and drawing the crazy science lab on the back of my sheet. Evie

Playing in the playground with Lizzie and our prep sisters was fun. Leila

I wonder how St. Patrick became so famous. Emile

During St Patrick's day we coloured in special patterns, they look VERY nice! Vasco and Elliot

We got to put lolly snakes in the jelly we made. Lola

The jelly crystals dissolved in water. Clarrie

 

My favourite thing was colouring the special colouring pattern in Jared's room. Chloe

I learnt that Ireland is very green. Selvie

I learnt that St Patrick's day is celebrated all over the world. Sean

I liked colouring people with our prep buddies and eating the jelly. Lewis

I enjoyed learning about St Patrick's day. Dean

Happy St Patrick's Day from all of us in 1/2L and K!!!

The magical mystery milk ....

No it's not a song by The Beatles. 1/2K did a fabulous science experiment this week and then we turned it into a poem. We hope you like it!

 

Mysterious, Marvellous, Magical Milk

By 1/2K

On each table was a little bowl of milk,

As if Mr Cat was having a birthday party.

While we watched and waited, Lauren drip -dropped in the food dye to make colourful smodges.

(“Mr Cat will be excited,” we thought!)

Then we took our detergent-y toothpick and we speared it into the milky white pond.

We didn’t stir it but something marvellous happened….

A whirlpool appeared,

Fireworks, swirls, an 18 pointed star.

A green porcupine in a rainbow rainpool.

A colourful pizza at the end of the rainbow.

Then it was a beautiful, spiral lollypop.

There was a peacock’s feather shining with pink and orange and green.

Or maybe it was a haunted twisted tree.

A sea-horse, a dragon, a leafy sea dragon!

It was like a magical potion in a fortune teller’s bowl.

We dipped again…

Yellow appeared slowly from the depths of the milk,

It swirled around as if a witch was stirring her cauldron.

We saw a multi-coloured bird that disappeared into a greyish, blue-ish fog.

In one afternoon, our bowls of milk had become bright explosions of mysterious colours.

It was a science lesson but it was also magic.

Next time we have to follow that bird….

All about our Yabbie

Crackly shells and snippy snippers are yabbies. 

They eat veggies, which is good. 

(Glad it's not chocolate pud!) 

Sean 

 
This is our class yabbie! Its name is Yabstar.


We voted for its name. We don't know if it's a boy or a girl. It lives in a fish tank (actually a yabbie tank). It has lost one of its claws and some of its legs in a yabbie fight. But it's safe now. Next time it breaks out of its shell and sheds it will grow the lost bits back! Yabbies like to escape and they like to eat cucumber and carrot. Yabster's favourite hiding place is in a broken teacup. Welcome to 1/2K, Yabstar!

I like Yabstar because it's missing a caw and a leg. I feel sorry for it. Alisha

He is blue and he lives in water. His name is Yabstar. He has a home and that home is a cup. I like him. Allister

We have a pet yabbie and it lives in a fish tank. The yabbie actually lives in a cup. Jordie

Our yabbie has a little blue silver body, even its claws and its legs and its home is a broken cup and it has antennas. Leila

I like yabbies, yabbies are fun. We have a yabbie. Goldie

It is small. Dean

Yabstar likes to eat carrots and he likes to have fun. He will be our class pet for the year. He likes to explore his place lots. He lives in a fish tank. Lewis

I like the Yabbie's name, Yabstar. Yabstar is cute. Selvie

Yabstar is our yabbie. Lauren found her. Audrey

Yabbies are a blacky sort of colour. Our yabbie's name is Yabstar. It eats vegetables. It has blue claws. Milly

Yabstar lived in a teacup. She felt another yabbie. As she was identifying it there were voices. The children were back. Although Yabstar was shy she saw what they were doing. The class were writing words about yabbies. Blue, Claws, Tank. A child came and looked. Evie

Our class pet is a yabbie. He is grey and he has a missing leg and claws. Charlotte

Our class pet is a yabbie. Its name is Yabstar. Mitchell

The yabbie looks cute. Aidan

We have a yabbie. The yabbie is cool. The yabbie has lost a claw. Romy

We have a yabbie. Its name is Yabstar. We look after it. I like the yabbie. We got it Friday the 2nd of March 2012. Instead of saying it was cool, it was awesome. Jamil

We have a pet yabbie called Yabstar. He's cute. He's lost a claw and he has antenna. He has a shell and lives in water. He mostly eats vegetables and yabbies fight with other yabbies. It is a baby. Lola

Our yabbie has blue claws and it is grey. Lizzy

Our yabbie is called Yabstar. The yabbie has lost a nipper. The yabbie has lost a few legs. Clarrie

We have a pet yabbie. He is grey. His name is Yabstar. It lives in a cup. I love it. Aimee