Sunday, July 29, 2012

Mahana School Olympic Cross Country


 Can you guess the Olympic teams from their flags?


 Go Pip!
 Eva, Cody, Reilly, Kyla and Alana looking really fit and strong.
 Hunter has great support on the up hill.
Millie - Rose, Bradley, Johnathan and Tristan fighting it out on the down hill.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Name Symmetry













We are learning to find the lines of symmetry in a variety of shapes and objects. We used our names and reflected them in the line of symmetry.

Friday, May 25, 2012

Book Week At Mahana School

Mahana School students and teachers dressed up as their favourite book characters.
 Can you guess which book characters they are?
 Can you guess who is who?
 They all looked fantastic!

 Is that a teacher under that hat?









Learning How Rainbows Are Formed

 The refraction process of the sunlight being reflected by the angles of the prism.

Rainbows appear when raindrops (similar to a prism) reflect sunlight, thus breaking white light into colours.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

Glorax

 Pip feeling what her glorax feels like.
 Jonathan and Josh are taking their glorax home for more experimentation.
Warning!!!   Parents please check school bags for science substances.

Reilly wants to see if he can throw his glorax.
Glorax is made up of glycerol, guar gum, borax and H2o.