Grade 5 Billy Carts Made by the Students Themselves!
Friday, November 30, 2007
Circuit Building
Here is the video of the light circuit. You can include this one in your Googlepages website. I'll will teach you how to do that next week.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Radio Inquiry

Resistor; Beni and Liza

Rotary Capacitor; Hansen and Jessyln

Speaker; Amanda and Andrew
Antenna Coil; MP and Alizka
Varco (AM and FM); Kevin and Marchell
Battery and the Holder; Suah and Desiree
Potentiometer; Ristia and Raymond
Variable Capacitor; MT and Mandy
Amplifying IC; Brodie and Jinju
Transistor; Shila and Jennifer
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Machines Inquiry

Grade 5,
Please bring to school on this Thursday 29th, an old broken machine from home. A wind up clock or something that has parts inside. You will also need some screw drivers. We will have a lesson taking apart the machine to try to locate the simple machines inside it. Please bring something that is broken as we will be taking it apart completely.
Bridge To Terrabithia Homework due Friday 30th
Can you answer these questions on your own blog. You need to make a book cover using Word and Print Screen/Paint to be saved as jpeg. This image must be posted on your blog with the answers
Chapters 1-5
1. Why is Jess wearing neither a shirt nor shoes?
2. Why has he gotten up early every morning in the summer?
3. Who is Miss Bessie?
4. What news does May Belle share with Jess in the bean patch?
5. Why does Jess like May Belle?
6. What does Jess keep under the mattress?
7. What was Jess’ first reaction when he met Leslie Burke?
8. How is Leslie different to the other students?
9. What did the boys organize outside once they had been dismissed after eating their lunch?
10. Why does Jess sit beside May
11. Why wasn’t running fun anymore?
12. Why was Leslie unable to do the project on Jacques Cousteau?
13. Have you ever had a secret place where you went with your friends? Describe it?
14. Who was the ‘real’ giant in their lives?
15. What plan of action do they decide on to pay back Janice Avery?