Paige



Adelaide. On the school holidays I will be going to Adelaide for nationals for tramp and for a state softball tournament





Our tour at the MCG and visit at the sports Muesium was fantastic. We walked onto the ground, sat in the cricket bexes, saw the cange rooms and spas, looked through the muesium and even had a go at the interactive things. Our tour guide was Ken and he was very helpful and most have been doing tours for a long time because he new nearly told us everything about the stadium. he told us that the stadium could hold 100,000 people and that they made trhe nets behind the goal posts because a lady got hit in the face once whilst the players were practising before the game.

For term 3 we are learning about Energy. So far we have learned about Chemical energy. we have done experiments in sience and my favourite was the Gluey Goop. Gluey goop is a mixture of glue, water and borax powder. You mix them together and it becomes one big blob of goop. It can become hard if you put it in your hand and put pressure on it and becomes soft and kind of goes into a liquid when you relax your hand.We also have experimented by putting different chimicals in a cup together. We had to see if the two chemicals became one or just seperated and stayed as two different chemicals. We had to predict if they would become one or stay seperate. I got most of my estemits correct but found it interesting that some of the chemicals I was sure would become one, had no effect on each other what so ever.

At the moment Caitlin and I are working on our science project. we have decided to do a little pretend show and make it really funny. We have four small experiments to show and a //challenge of the week!.// We will be making Crazy Putty, Rubber Chicken Bones, Bath Salts and Fake Snot. I think it's going to be a jolly good show.

During this term we have also learned about air energy as well. We experimented with steel soap.



** In Term 1 senior school are learning about Aboriginals. We had a visitor called Murrindindi come and teach us all about his life, the way Aboriginals live and some interesting facts. He also taught us how to throw a boomerang! He makes the boomerangs himself and they work terrifically. He told us that all the pretty ones you see in shops are all just looks and are really bad to throw.The best ones to get are the ones made by Aboriginals themselves and with no patterns on them, because if they do they will be all different weights in all different places. We had a whole day to learn more about aboriginals with Murrindindi and now I think I know triple as much as I did. Murrindindi showed us photos of his elder tribal leaders and explained how it was to live like the Aboriginals did back then. It was a hard life back then he told us and not all of them survived. We learned a few words and a song that he played with rhythm sticks. We all sounded hopeless compared to Murrindindi. He showed us some different types of hunting tools they used to kill animals and some of them were quite strange. One off the tools was a rock that soo smooth that they used to carve things with. We saw the possum cloke he was given when he became the tribal leader and that it took around forty possum skins to make it. It looked really warm!! Murrindindi also works at the warrabi zoo were he performs shows and talks about some of the wildlife. Murrindindi told us some Aboriginal stories about animals and of the earth and they sounded very true in some ways. He also told us stories about his ancestors and about how they survived in the bush. Murrindindi is very proud to be the cheif of his tribe and I am very glad he came to Brandon park to teach us a heap more about Aboriginals. I know so much more now and I will be sure to share my knowledge to all my friends and family when I see them. **