WA WEEK

To celebrate WA Week, all of the classes at Wattle Grove decorated their doors showcasing either a Western Australian city or town, or some of the beautiful plants and animals found in WA.
Room 19 chose to create a door display about Geraldton. We used the laptops to research facts about Geraldton such as,

• What is the population of Geraldton?
• Where is Geraldton located?
• How long does it take to get to Geraldton from Perth by car?
• What is Geraldton famous for?
• What can you do if you visit Geraldton?
• What kinds of plants and animals do Geraldton have?

Once we had finished our research and note-taking we then designed a draft poster about Geraldton. We tried to include as many facts as possible on our posters.
To complete our posters we used Microsoft Publisher on the laptops. We used computer skills such as, inserting text boxes and WordArt, copying and pasting from Google images, formatting backgrounds, changing font sizes and word processing.

SUPER SCIENTISTS

In Week 6, we all presented our Super Scientist research or experiments. It was so interesting learning about how different things react to each other and how some things work. We saw several different experiments such as, balloon rockets, erupting volcanoes, bubbling lava lamps, gravity free water, bouncing balls, a cloud in a jar, floating and sinking oranges, diet coke and mentos, a levitating orb and many more. All of the students spoke really well and they enjoyed being Super Scientists.
Room 19’s winners were Sophie and Lochlann.
In Week 8 Sophie and Lochlann presented their experiments and research to all of the Year 3s. There were 8 finalists, but there could be only one winner. That winner was Sophie!
Sophie will now be performing her bubbling lava lamp experiment on Thursday 23 June at the whole school assembly.

SUPER SCIENTIST POSTERS

After completing our Super Scientist experiments and research we wrote procedures about them. In a procedure you need to have an aim, the materials used, the method and a conclusion. Once we had written our drafts we then used Microsoft Word to type them out. We could include appropriate Clipart and a border to enhance the presentation of our procedure.
We could print out a page of scientific Clipart to add to our posters. Miss Dagostino also printed out some photos of us completing our experiments. We then chose a coloured piece of A3 card and created our posters. They turned out extremely well. We are all so proud of our efforts.

NUMERO CHALLENGES

We have started to complete the weekly Numero Challenge in the West Australian newspaper. Numero helps to develop our problem-solving skills and it helps us practise our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division understandings.
We have also been learning how to play the Numero card game. We are having so much fun trying to get the highest card takes.