Greats and Grands

What a fantastic day with our Greats and Grands!

What does a 'catchment' look like?

Sometimes it's really hard to visualise a concept. We got a bit stuck when it came to making a picture in our minds of catchments and boundaries. We were lucky to borrow this amazing fibreglass water catchment table so we could make it rain and be able to see what the idea was.

Making it rain on the mountains

What happens to the water when it rains on the mountains (boundaries)?

Water Cycle Bags

Who can tell us what is happening in our Water Cycle bags?

The Water Cycle

We are being inspired in our learning this week and we've kicked straight off into a science based Inquiry Learning unit about WATER.

Today we have been learning about the water cycle.

We looked at the water cycle in a catchment and found out about big words like evaporation, condensation, precipitation and transpiration.

Here is some of the vocabulary we need to know to help us with our learning.

Then we made our own 'water cycles' in bags and hung them on the classroom windows to get the engine (the sun) to start the process of the cycle.