Crazy Catapults!

While most of the class designed ways to drop an egg without it breaking, a couple of groups chose the catapult challenge! They had to come up with a way to throw an object across the room...or across the court if we got a bit worried about hitting things inside! Here are their designs:

A simple design - something you could try at home! Well done, boys!

Here it is in action:

Another group did some work at home and came back with this swish design:

Both groups are going 'back to the drawing board' to try little things to improve their catapults but they did a fabulous job and we enjoyed watching them a lot!

Eggscellent Eggsperiments!

I think the title will give you a clue - we have continued our 'egg drop' fun! So what does happen when you drop an egg off the top of the senior playground? Have a look:

As you can see, some eggs bounce and survive the fall...but others don't!

Poor Humpty Dumpty...

So, back to the challenge! Each group had to design a way of dropping an egg without it breaking. Here are the designs and the results of our 'eggsperiments':

I like to call this one...Fluffy Surprise!
An egg surrounded by cotton wool with an outside layer of tinfoil to hold it all together.

Well done, Rosa and Madeleine - your egg survived!

This one could be called 'Beautiful Bubble'!
An egg wrapped in bubble wrap and tinfoil then decorated with little badges.

"Yes!" goes Samantha while Elina shows the smile of success.

This one looks like a 'Reverse Rocket Booster'.

When it landed, the egg had slipped to the end...lucky you designed a seat belt, boys!

Samuel and Jonathan with their clever contraption...and a whole egg!

This design needs to be called the 'Double Whammy' because it not only protected the egg inside the box...
it slowed down it's fall with a parachute too! 

Olivia, Tayla and Phoebe get the egg out of its feather bed - in one piece! Woo hoo!

What a lot of fun we had! What would YOU design to save your egg? Have a go...

Technology Challenge!

We have a challenge going in D1 at the moment - an 'Egg Drop' challenge! The children were asked to design a way to drop an egg from the top of the playground...without it breaking!

Noah did some work at home and came back with this amazing looking 'triangle box'. He dropped it from the playground... (sorry - the camera is turned sideways!)

...and now let's look inside...

Looking good so far...

Let's get a close up...

Ta da! One whole egg! No cracks in sight! Well done Noah and Dad!

Noah's design included a 'seatbelt' for the egg so that it didn't bounce around and lots of soft padding inside a very strong box made with sticks and tape. Clever!

A Kind Kingdom Kid...

We ended last term with a Kingdom Kid award...and we are beginning this term with another one!

Well done, Bree!

Brees's award says:

Our school value of Kindness is about ‘Showing care for others’. This is a wonderful description of our lovely Bree! All year, she has kept an eye out for people she could care for with a gentle word, a listening ear, a friendly hug or a welcoming smile. Thanks for being such a Kind Kingdom Kid, Bree!

Kingdom Kid Award

Our latest D1 Kingdom Kid award went to Caleb! It is a very hard quality to show, humility, but Caleb has been an excellent example of it.

Awesome, Caleb!

His award says:

Caleb is what we call a 'quiet achiever'. He is a terrific worker and very brainy, but he does not go around telling everyone about it! He is a wonderful example of our school value this term, Humility before God. It is exciting to be able to give him the honour he deserves and to thank him for all his hard work.

Well done, Caleb! It was nice to see all your friends congratulating you on the way back to your seat!

Humility before God

In D2 we have been busy learning all about humility before God.  D2 have learnt a lot about what humility looks like and have been practicing using it.  We talked about the verse "be clothed with humility' and wore a T-shirt to show how God wants us to always wear our humility when we can. Come and have a look in the class to see our own t-shirts we made.

As an end to our humility topic, we worked in partners and wrote these amazing humility poems. They are so good that  some are coming home in our poetry books this week.

Enjoy!

Have a humble heart

Use kind words

Making new friends

I can speak life

Let others go first

It isn't easy

Think before you speak

You can be kind to others

By Simi and Oliver

Humility is showing kindness

Use the right words at the right time.

Making new friends

I respect other people's personality

Looking at others needs

I use kind words

Think before you speak

You alter your behaviour when you need to

By Shanti

Honesty to God

Understand the truth

Making good choices

It isn't always easy

Letting someone go first

It can be hard to be humble

Think about your behaviour

You help other people

By Elizabeth and Lily

Kingdom Kids Times Two!

It was wonderful to celebrate 2 special awards for D1 children at assembly yesterday. Jonathan and Jimin were both given Kingdom Kid awards - Jonathan's was from the end of last term but he was away and we had to keep the BIG secret from him all holidays (well done, mum and dad!).

Here they are:

Two awards? Twice as nice!

Jonathan's award says:

Jonathan has been an outstanding example of someone who is focused on improving himself as a learner and will honestly say if he truly understands, gets ideas a little bit or needs help to work something through. That’s integrity in action.

Jimin's award says:

Jimin is a wonderful example of our value of Kindness. She is often the first person to offer help to someone in need and is a kind friend to new members of our school family. She truly is one of D1’s ‘Good Samaritans’!