Thursday Already!

Well, the first week back at school has raced by and we wasted no time in getting straight to work.

On Monday we caught up on holiday news and then started with an English comprehension all about New York. This is the setting of the lovely "Cricket in Times Square" reader that we are reading at the moment and it is always good to learn a little more about places of the world...especially a big and bustling city like New York!

On Tuesday we were off to the Magic Classroom where Prof. Bayla sparked our curiosity with colours and illusions and made us marvel at all his clever magic tricks.

We then headed out into the solar system on Wednesday and learnt a thing or two about our neighbouring planets. The girls are fascinated with this topic and had many questions to ask which is always lovely to see. The girls took turns to teach a different planet to the class and they did a great job. Mercury, however, caused a little confusion when we tried to understand how its day can be longer than its year. If you click on the links to the websites below, it may make things a little clearer!

http://www.kidscosmos.org/kid-stuff/mercury-facts.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-doT9gNsI8

And Thursday, a rather chilly day today after a lovely warm start to the week...a good day to start our new section in Geography all about weather and climate. After understanding the difference between weather and climate, we went on to learn about the climatic regions in South Africa. There are varying ideas about the number of climatic regions, but we have learnt the seven main ones. Some documents include one or two more regions that are separated due to slight changes in climate in those areas. The map below includes two extra climatic regions (the yellow and purple bands). Here the subtropical region that we learnt about has been divided into three separate regions.



Well done girls, we have covered a lot in one week! It's been a good start to the new term, keep it up!