Mufti with a "C'

For mufti this term, everyone could dress as someone or something that starts with 'C'.  Next year we will be having the next Cockle Bay Carnival, so it was good to be reminded of the importance of 'C'!

Not so silly photoshoot.

Pretty silly photo shoot

Wheels Day

On Wheels Day, everyone is allowed to bring something with wheels to play on at morning tea and lunchtime.  In Room 18, we brought bikes, scooters, remote controlled vehicles, wheelies and meeowsies.  As with the culture parade, Room 18 did Statistical Maths to find out how many people people had brought what.

A special thank you to our class councillors who made Wheels Day posters and also helped to supervise riders on the day.

The CBS Culture Parade

It is interesting to discover how many different ethnicities we have at Cockle Bay School.  Students come from a vast number of different countries.  To celebrate this, it was decided to have a Culture Parade.  Everyone, students and teachers, could come to school dressed in ways to demonstrate country.  After we had shared our cultures in our classrooms, the whole school had a parade around the filed before morning tea.

Later on, in Maths we did cultural statistics.  We collected our data, displayed on a bar chart as well as a pice chart, and then wrote sensible sentences about what we could see.

Cockle Bay Fun Run

Everyone at Cockle Bay ran in the Fun Run.  We were very lucky in Room 18 because Ruby took most of these photos for us.

Even the teachers could fit through the hoops!

Senior Athletics Day

Years 3 - 6 had Senior Athletics Day on 27th October at Howick College.  Unfortunately, it was a rainy day so the high jump was moved to under the dome at Cockle Bay for safety. 

Fantastic jump by Kayden L

Kate O clears the bar.

Elsie prepares to land

Ella caught mid flight on camera!

Isabel ready to launch herself

Awesome landing, Brooke!

Kyan is up and over!

Finn's best jump

Luka's run up . . . ready to spring into action!

Happy Halloween

On 31st October, we celebrated Happy Halloween in Room 18: through Maths, Word Study, Art and Science.  Desk inspection was scary as everyone had cobwebs and spiders in their desks and tote trays!

The jack-o-lantern smelt like burnt pumpkin as the candle cooked the lid!

First we did Halloween Maths.  We had to join pairs of numbers that make 10, 100 or even 1,000 to make scary cobwebs.

Later on, we worked out Halloween word problems.  Some people worked independently using their multiplication and division skills,  while other people used counters in the Halloween workshop with Mrs Bear.

For lunch, we made spider sandwiches, but thankfully NOT with real spiders!  We used vegemite for the body, and either sticks of cucumber or carrot for the legs.  Then we used red food colouring for the eyes and mouth.

After lunch, we had Spooky Word Study with jelly googly eyes.  We had to write all the words we could think of with the 'OO' chunk.

Afterwards, we could choose one Halloween sweet from the Skull because no one really wanted to eat the googly eyes when they had felt pen all around the edge - there were jelly googly eyes, false teeth or cut off fingers to choose from.

We also did spooky Halloween Art, but this took several days.  First we looked very closely at our hands to see where the finger bones were.   We bent our finders, rotated our wrists and made a fist to see our knuckles.  Then we drew an outline of our hand, and made little lines to show each join.  Next we drew in each bone, separating them at each join and coloured in the spaces between.  The last part was to carefully paint the bones with oil to make them see-through.  When they were dry, we stuck them to the window.  When the light shines through, they look just like X-rays!

Later on, we did some Halloween Science and learned about physical change and chemical change.  We looked at all sorts of changes and decided in which group they belonged.  We  classified things like melting ice, mixing sand in water or chopping wood as physical change because they stayed the same, but we classified making toast and slime and baking cakes as chemical change because things changed and you could not change them back again.

At the end of the day, little groups of people went into the Halloween Cave with a glow stick - was this a physical change or a chemical change?  Can we change the glow stick back, or not?  We thought about this as we whirled them around in the dark.  What do you think?

Wacky Mufti Day

On Wacky Mufti Day, we had two new students: Mr Chicken and a new boy all the way from Sweden,  just for the day.  With lots of kindness and caring evident from the other students, they both settled into class well.

Grandparents Day

On Wednesday, 26th July, the Junior School hosted a Grandparents Day where people shared their things and memories of school in the olden days.  We made a venn diagram with stickies to compare then and now.  It was interesting to see what was the same, such as skipping and chess; and what was different, things like computers, inkwells, fidget spinners and . . . the strap.  We also heard about games like Kiss Chase, school pet days and making terraniums.  Maybe we should try some of these!

After a sharing time, we served our guests morning tea.  Thankfully, there was plenty for everyone, including all the students.

Everyone made an invitation to send to a family member - here is a selection of invites

Everyone contributed to our venn diagram to compare past and present school life,

Kate O's Granny shared her photo album.

We played this board game from China, which is a lot like chess.

Mathew s with his Nana and Pop.

Kyan with his Nana.