Connectives

This week we have been working on using connectives to join our sentences and make them more interesting. Take a look at some of the funny sentences we made to practice using the connective 'while'.

Share your sentence using our four words above, make sure you include all of the words and check your punctuation.

Welcome Back To Term 4

Welcome back to another fun and busy term in the Realm of Rodda. We hope you all had a safe and happy break and look forward to showing you all of the incredible learning we will be completing this term. We even get to head off on an overnight camp in week 7, so stay tuned for all of those important notes to come home over the next few weeks.

To start us off, Mrs.Evans has found a great poster listing some ways that you can help us at home with learning basic math skills. 

What other simple activities or games do you do, to practise math skills at home?

Science - Package It Better

On the last day of Term 3, the Realm of Rodda participated in a rich Science Day to complete the Inquiry Unit, Package It Better. 

We had to design packaging that would keep a fragile egg from breaking in the post. It had to fit through a standard postage slot, be shaken, crushed, dropped from a tall ladder and finally be submerged in water. On top of all of this our package also had to be as enviornmentally friendly as possible and use recycled materials. 

It was a massive challenge designing our packaging, purchasing recycled materials within our budgets and making and testing our package! We all had a fantastic day exploring and investigating the effectiveness and properties of different materials.

 Posted and Dropped

 Crushed

 Submerged

 Shaken

Name some of the different materials you might use when packaging something to post. What properties do the materials have that make sure your package arrives to the reciepient in one piece?