Ranzau News Term 1

Ranzau News - Term 1, 2014 from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.

Bailey's Star Challenge

Today Bailey shared some photos from one of his Star Challenges.  He cooked 2 meals for his family and it all looks so yummy!  Room 8 are free to come to the O'Malley's any time for a meal cooked by Bailey :)

Great job, Bailey!

Reuben and Rohan's bird house.

Today for exploration Reuben and Rohan started to built a bird house. They chose a design from the internet and Reuben's dad helped them with getting the wood they needed. Once it is finished, we will have to find the right spot in one of our trees so that the birds can enjoy it! 

Forest gecko.

This week we have been looking at animals that live in water catchments. We chose an animal and did a. It of research about the animal and what we can do to have protect them. This is Mine and alices's. 

By Ella 

Eiffel Tower

Today for reading we were doing Non-Ficton text and we read about the Eiffel Tower.  Here are some of the facts we learnt.

It was Opened on the 31 March 1889 so it is 125 years old!
It was named after the Gustave Eiffel.
The Eiffel tower is one of the most famous towers in the world.
The Eiffel tower is 324 metres high.
It was made out of Iron.
It was the tallest manmade structure for 41 years until the Chrysler Building in New York was built.
The sun causes the tower to grow about 15cm!
It weights about 10,000 tones and it took 18,000 pieces of iron to create it.
It was nicknamed La dam de fer which means the iron lady.