Our parachute challenge!!

Room one have been working hard over the past week creating parachutes which reduce the effects of gravity. The challenge was to design and create a parachute that would bring their lego man slowly to the ground. 

Today each group tested their finished parachutes and we timed their fall to see which group created the most efficient parachute!

Here is our winning group! Hayley, Freya and Kaitlyn's parachute fell to the ground in 2.64 seconds!

Reducing Gravity

This term we are learning about what makes thing move, we have started looking at Newton's Laws of Motion and gravity.

Our rich task over the last few Inquiry sessions has been making parachutes to reduce gravity.  We were allowed to use plastic bags and string.  We are all using lego men so our 'people' are the same.  On Wednesday we will have a class challenge to see which group's parachute work the best.

BandSlam 2015

Congratulations to our school band who performed last night to a huge  crowd in Hamilton.
Awesome work Freya, Brodie, Regan, Kurtis, Roxanne, Ollie and Kyle.
Thanks to Mr Spicer for his expertise!