Look who visited us!

 Harold the Giraffe is at Outram School.  We were very excited to see him.  We learnt about being friends and keeping ourselves healthy and safe.

Annie 's Reading Award - 100 nights!

What a great effort from Annie.  She is the first to receive her 100 nights of Reading Award.  Great reading Annie!

Weather Quiz

In pairs Room 8 completed a weather quiz.  Congratulations to Bridgette and Annie who were first to finish.

Seth's Parachute

 Seth made a parachute at home out of tissue paper and string.  Watch it fly!

Crazy Popcorn

 Watching popcorn POP!  before writing the procedure on 'How to make Popcorn'.

Super Readers

Look at these gorgeous children reading quietly in the library corner before school.

Crystals Crystals

 Blake, Luke and Will made snowflake crystals at home and brought them along to school to show everyone.
Well Done Boys!

Nick's Guitar skills

Nick plays' Rock my Soul' to the class.  Well done Nick!

The Transit of Venus

 On June 6th, 2012, Venus passed across the face of the sun, producing a silhouette that no one alive today will likely see again.  The 2012 transit of Venus, is when the planet Venus appears as a small, dark disk moving across the face of the Sun.  Transits of Venus are very rare, coming in pairs separated by more than a hundred years. This June’s transit, the bookend of a 2004-2012 pair, won’t be repeated until the year 2117.

Mr Beaton brought along his special equipment so we could see Venus.  We also looked at the sun through special glasses and all of room 8 saw Venus as a small black dot.

Cold as Ice

 Today we shuffled around school as ice covered our courts.  For story writing we wrote descriptions about the ice using interesting adjectives such glistening, sparkling, cold, freezing,   Mr Marshall liked Kayley's description so much that she not only received a Principal's Award but Mr Marshall also read her story to the class as well.

Well Done Kayley!
Cold as Ice - by Kayley
Room 8 went out to have a skate on the freezing cold ice.  My fingers felt like icebergs with sparkling ice on them.  I felt like I was going to freeze.  The ice was glistening in my eye.  It felt icy all over my hands.  I had icy lips.  My eyes were frozen like popsicles.



More Descriptions about the ICE

Cold as Ice by Finn

When we went outside we did some skating.  I slipped on the cold, freezing, thick ice.  I did some shuffling on the sparkling ice.  Ice is slippery because every time you run you will slip.

Cold as Ice by Nick

As I stepped on the sparkling ice, I slipped over.  When I got up I was dizzy.  I shuffled and made a rustling sound on the ice.  My fingers were frozen like popsicles.

Cold as Ice by Emily C.

Room 8 went on the sparkling ice.  It was freezing, slippery ice.  The ice was white, soft and slippery.  Some leaves were stuck to the sparkling ice.  The ice was cracking when I was skating on it.  Did you know that ice is made out of white, shining water?  The ice was thick and freezing when I skated.  My hands were like icicles.  Then we came inside.  They were not like icicles when we were inside.  It was not white and freezing.  It was warm.