Making Slime and Investigating Probability, Among Other Things!

Our Busy Lives!

As a class we brainstormed what we've been doing in the past two weeks.  This is what we came up with in just a few minutes:

• We made periscopes for Mr O'Regan's science changeover

• We logged into our school Google accounts and learned about sharing documents

• We wrote a proposal for our homework "Passion Project"

• The Year 5 students went to "Taster Days" at St Joseph's and Mater Christie

• All of the girls also visited Mater Christie to use their Art facilities and work with older girls.

• We prepared for Mother's Day by writing persuasive texts about "Why My Mum is the Best" and treated our Mothers to a very special High Tea in the school hall.  We also bought presents from the  Mothers' Day stall

• We have been practising Christian Meditation after play several times a week.

• In our Class Sport times we have played t-ball and kickball and we found out our teams for the Winter Inter-school Sports.  Running Club has been running tryouts for Cross Country

• NAPLAN tests are next week and we have been doing some practice in class time

• We helped our Prep Buddies log onto the computers and complete some Mathletics tasks

• Flynn, Jocelyn and Chloe have celebrated their birthdays

• Paris, Liam, James, Sophia, Jake , Elizabeth, Hayden, Brendon, Emily, and Joc had their birthdays earlier in the year!

Photolog:  Year 5 Girls Make Slime at Mater Christie!

 

Photolog:  Chance and Probability

We rolled a single 10-sided dice about 100 times.  We graphed the result and it looked like this:

In groups we rolled a pair of 10-sided dice and graphed the results.  They looked like this. 

Can you see the difference?

 

 

This is what it looked like when we combined all of our data:

Questions of the Week

We were wondering - if you have already finished school, what do you think is different for kids these days?  What has stayed the same?

Also

Why does the graph we made after rolling two dice look so different from the graph we made after rolling only one?