What
a wonderful start to our new unit we had this week. Angwin children kicked off
the week observing a machine in action as they juiced fruit with an electric
juicer. We followed this up by taking a music box apart together in class and
discovered that machines have all sorts of things inside that work together to
make them go. We thought about what we knew about machines.
“Chocolate
makes a machine” giggled Rachel
“You
can’t make a chocolate into a machine, but you can make a chocolate with a hot
chocolate machine” explained Sujay
“Some
machines help us if we are late to cook something” said Arwyn, describing a
microwave
“A
tractor is a machine” said Allegra
“It
can help you do, make things faster” explained Anthony
“It
needs electric to work” said Lucille
“It
needs wires and pipes” said Harvey
“It
needs petrol in the fan engine” said Arwyn
“It
needs buttons” suggested Joe M
After
spending the week exploring the inside of machines we finished off by trying to
juice oranges without a machine. Anthony was right, the machine was much
faster… and easier.
This
week we were also interested in rock and roll guitars and Mrs Rocca supported
our interest by playing an ACDC concert videoclip on the computer. Lots of
children rushed to the block corner for long blocks to use as guitars and took
great pleasure in imitating Angus’ rock and roll moves. Tommy even showed us
how he could do a rock and roll jump off a chair. It was thrilling but we
decided not to do it anymore because it made our teachers too nervous!
Angwin
Airlines continued to fly passengers around the globe this week, with tours
becoming more and more complex. We are going to start plotting some of the
places we have flown in real life on a map next week so please feel free to
email Mrs Bishop (mbishop@pac.edu.au) a
snap or two from any destinations you have visited and they can join Autumn's
Falls Creek photos on the wall.
We
now have a new sign in sheet for children to record their names on the desk
outside our classroom, but please don’t forget to officially sign your child in
every morning as usual. We are on the lookout for any additional machines or
appliances that you no longer need that we could deconstruct in our classroom
and are also looking for any shoe boxes (with or without lids).
Thanks
Mel,
Alexandra, Coney, Faye and Louise
