by krisenthal in June 23, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
Wowie, time has flown since our last post. We have all been busy doing one thing or another! We’re going to now post a highlights package to show you what we’ve been up to since our last post.
Lots and lots of science experiments
Making bubbles
Bubbles
Magic milk
Making Slime
Our slime
Our High School students have gone to Kormilda college in Darwin
Our Pre School class at our end of term awards day
Our Early Years class at our end of term awards day
Our class at the end of term awards day
So….we’re all exhausted from all of the learning that we’ve been doing!!
We wish everyone a great school holiday and Murray Downs School will be back on the 25th of July. Bye 
by krisenthal in May 18, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
This week our science focus has been ‘air’
On Monday we made balloon rockets
About to launch our balloon rocket!
Untitled from Elicia Krisenthal on Vimeo.
On Tuesday we discovered air pressure with balloons, ping pong balls and hair dryers:
Today we did an experiment about air pressure. We had a balloon, sticky tape, string, two ping pong balls and a hair dryer. First we stuck two ping pong balls to string and the stuck them hanging to the desk and got a straw and blew in between the balls. The balls stuck together. They did this because there was no air in between the ping pong balls and the air presure from the outside pushed them together.
Next we put a ping pong ball on top of the hair dryer and it floated. The hair dryer was pushing the ball up and the air pressure was pushing the ball down. The ping pong ball floated.
Roberta
The ball floated!
On Wednesday we had paper aeroplane races and made helicopters:
Air pressure makes aeroplanes fly. Paper aeroplanes with big wings and paperclips on their noses fly the best.
Dylan
by krisenthal in May 18, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
Sharon putting the damper in the fire
Last week we went on a bush trip to the swamp. We went looking for animals, played footy, explored the swamp and cooked damper. We’re going to use our bush trip as a starting place for our Alyawarr language lessons. The kids took some photos and made some movies for you to enjoy!
The boys playing footy on the green grass
The kids exploring the swamp
Murray Downs School at the swamp!
Untitled from Elicia Krisenthal on Vimeo.
Untitled from Elicia Krisenthal on Vimeo.
Untitled from Elicia Krisenthal on Vimeo.
by krisenthal in May 6, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
Today we had a planning day for our Indigenous Language and Culture program. The Murray Downs Teachers Elicia, Nathan, Jeffrey, Sharon, Lawrence and Pam worked with ladies from the community and 2 linguists, Susan Moore and Sally Dixon. We came up with a wonderful term plan which ensures that we will have Alyawarr language and culture education as an important part of our teaching and learning.
We’re starting our culture program on Monday with a trip up the road to the swamp. We might see some back swans, ducks and echidnas!
Here are our award winners for this week.
Our award winners for the week-SUPERKIDS!!!!
by krisenthal in May 5, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
Today was a busy day at Murray Downs School. The dentist visited Ali Curung clinic (which is about 30 minutes drive away) so some kids from Murray Downs were taken by Jeffrey in the school troopie to the Ali Curung clinic. We also had a nurse at school giving us check ups on our eyes. On top of that we conducted another experiment-we made baking soda volcanoes!
First we made made a mountain around our bottle. Then we poured vinegar, red food colouring and dish washing liquid into the bottle. Lastly we put a teaspoon of baking soda into our bottle. All of the ingredients reacted and red lava poured out of the mountain! It was like a volcanic eruption!
Making our mountain
We combined vinegar, red food colouring and baking soda
Eruption!
We discovered that the vinegar and baking react together they produce carbon dioxide gas! Carbon dioxide is produced in a real volcano!
by krisenthal in May 4, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
Hi!
This term we’re learning to be scientists with our unit ‘Tuning into change’. We’re going to do a science experiment every morning and writing about it in our literacy session.
For our first experiment we investigated what happens when you mix diet coke and mentos.
Diet coke explosion!
When we put the mentos in the diet coke the carbon dioxide came out. The gas was stuck on the mentos and it made millions of bubbles. Jacob
Today we did an experiment with diet coke and it exploded! The diet coke did not have any more fizz after we finished the experiment. We drank it but it tasted flat. The diet coke had no more gas. The bottle was full before the experiment but after it exploded the was only half left. Chontelle
First we got a bottle of diet coke and we got some string and we got four mentos and we made a hole in the mentos and the lid and put the string through them. We dropped the mentos into the diet coke. The diet coke exploded. Tyras
We’re looking forward to a term FULL of science!!
by krisenthal in January 24, 2011 · Filed under Uncategorized
Hi my name is Elicia and I teach the Primary Years Class at Murray Downs School. Murray Downs is in the Northern Territory near the Davenport Ranges. My kids will soon be writing on this blog and telling you about themselves. Keep coming back to find out all about life out here!
