Volunteer Appreciation Breakfast

Room 13 Students created over 80 thank you cards for King George's wonderful volunteers. They wrote messages in each card thanking people for helping to make our school year special. We are so fortunate to have so many people involved.
The "great big thank you" banner was painted by N.W., H.S., L.H., T.H., T.R-P, E.P, K.N, and T.G..
Many thanks to Ms Vanetti, Mrs Van, Ms Montgomery and Mrs LT for organizing this event.

Book in a Bag: The Fire Within by Chris d'Lacey

Scientists in Schools: What in the World is Matter?

Procedural Writing: How to Relax

E.P.I.C. Testing 2

Fraction math games

Working in small groups, students created math games to help understand equivalent fractions. They used Cuisinaire Rods, pizza slices and a set of fraction cards. Students taught others to play the games they invented. 

Group Novel Study Culminating Task: The Tiger Rising by Kate Di Camillo

Chuck Close Inspired Self-Portraits

Janeen from Lello Art School introduced us to the work of Chuck Close. Inspired by his paintings, we created these self-portraits based on photos that Janeen took of us. Mr Hannah's students joined us for this fun and inspiring workshop. Their pieces were displayed with ours in the gym during the School Council's Art Show and Business Fair held today. All King George classes had Lello workshops and their work was also exhibited. It was fantastic to see so much creativity in one room!

Bridge Building - The Testing Phase

All bridges passed the three tests: 

• Two Hot Wheels type toy cars must be able to pass each other
• Must support two weights of 200g each
• Must withstand the "wind test"

All Bridges were less than 50 cm long and were completed on schedule. Six out of nine were long enough to bridge the 30 cm gap. Four bridges were built "under budget", using either less than 40 straws, less than 2 m masking tape, or both. 

Well done engineers!

Group Novel Study Comic Strips

Pastel Sgraffito: Indian Corn