Having heaps of fun at camp and exploring liquids and solids

 Written by Deakin Seiter, Miles Balaam-Gunderson, Haname SIbley & Noah Ryan

Photography by Ramy Ramadhan & Simon

This term the grade 3/4s went on camp to Cave Hill Creek for two nights. We got there by bus, it was two hour drive so we stopped at a park for morning tea. When we got to camp, we got introduced to Tim and then unpacked our bags.

Then we started our activities at 3pm. We had six activities and these were archery, rock climbing/abseiling, low ropes, mountain bikes, bush cooking and hut building. The food we had was delicious. For dinner we had lasagne and chicken with vegetables. At each meal, one group had to set up and clean the table.

Even though we were away from our families, camp was exciting and so much fun. And we are so looking forward to going on camp again next year.

In the first half of term two, the grade 3/4s had ten RMIT students come in to visit. RMIT is a university, which teaches people how to be science teachers. They visited us to teach us about solids and liquids. There were three groups; we all did the same activities but at different times. They told us all about molecules and atoms, which are in literally everything. The molecules move fast if it’s hot and if it’s cold they move slower and also come closer to each other.

The first activity was melting ice and you had to think of a fast way to melt the ice in a bag. The second activity was to melt chocolate in a microwave. You had to guess if a big block of chocolate or broken pieces of chocolate would melt faster. The last activity was melting ice cream. You had to guess if the chopped-up ice cream melted faster than a scoop of ice cream. We really liked learning about solids and liquids and really hope that the RMIT students come back again next year.