Dear Edgerley families,
What a busy week we have had again this week. We have been busy
in our classroom exploring as paleontologists.
“You find bones and put them in a museum. They have to go
under the dirt, that’s how real ones do it” said Stefan
“You find them and put them together, they are fossils, not
bones” said Sylas
“A big rock came from out of space and killed all the
dinosaurs” explained Luke
“You look in the sand and in mud too” said Mateo
We also have enthusiastically continued to explore magnets.
We have begun to wonder about what is really pushing and pulling our metal
objects as we have noticed that we can move metal without even touching it.
Some of the boys showed others how magnets could move iron filings inside a
plastic bottle! The magnet was not inside the bottle so how did this happen. We
read a book about something called magnetic force.
“The magnetic force is connected to the stuff inside the
plastic. The magnet is using it to pull stuff down” said Luke
“There’s strong senses of lines and whatever it can stick to
it grabs” said Varish
That seemed to be what was pushing and pulling our objects
but no matter how closely we looked we couldn’t see it… then we realised, it’s
invisible! Then we discovered something else invisible…air! Can you think of
anything else that is invisible?
With Clipsal at our doorstep we decided to go to the Prep
school on Thursday to watch the Roulettes fly overhead. It was very exciting
and on our return we had lots of boys professing that they will be pilots when
they grow up. It was wonderful to experience just a small part of mad march in
our beautiful city.
Next week we are heading to the museum to find out more
about fossils. This trip will be for Thursday students. Please help us by
returning slips promptly and letting us know if you are able to assist us on
our trip.
Have a lovely weekend
Mel, Emma and Ty
