Animation Creation

A great "How to . . ." resource  http://www.animationchefs.com/

Book Parade and Fair

This term celebrates the Australian Book Council's Book Week. The theme is "Books Light Up Our world". The aim of Book week is to promote not only a love of reading, but to celebrate and show the tremendous talent of Australian writers and illustrators.

Mount Annan Christian College will be celebrating Book Week with a Book Parade and Fair. This will be held in the Primary School on Friday, 11th September 2015. Please see the note below for further details: 

Book parade note 2015 from Kate Todd

Each child (and their teacher!) are encouraged to choose a character of a book and to dress up in costume. Students need to bring their costume to school and will get changed during recess in preparation for the parade. There will be prizes for the best costumes. Parents are invited to come and watch the parade, then have lunch with their children afterwards.

Each class will then focus on a shortlisted book to complete some activities that help to understand and enjoy the books. Parents are welcome to participate too!

What is your favourite book for Book Week? What character will you dress up as? 

College Church Service

The College Church Service will be on Saturday the 29th of August, starting at 5.30pm. Students can be in Mufti Clothes for the occasion. We encourage everyone to be there, but if you are absent, a note  explaining your absence needs to be provided on Monday. 

There will be a Sausage sizzle held afterwards and we look forward to catching up with lots of families for the evening. 

Japanese Students Visit MACC

Each year my family has the pleasure of being able to host a Japanese student at our household. Each year we have a wonderful time. I am Nikita, and this year I have a girl student named Eriko. My classmates Lily and Jack are also hosting some students this year. Lily is hosting a girl named Rio. Jack is hosting a boy named Shuhei.

When the students first arrived we were all very excited. Everyone couldn’t wait to meet their student. When they first came out of the bus, a lovely lady named Julie approached us and asked us for our last name. We told her. Then out of the crowd she called out Eriko. We took her to our car and hit the road.

She told us she has been looking forward to meeting us and can’t wait to get to know us. We told her that we were looking forward to meeting her too. She told us that she will share things about Japan to us while we show her about Japan. She is a lovely girl. When we got home we had some friends come over with their Japanese students. We all had a wonderful time and I can’t wait for the rest of the week.

Jack took his student to Wollongong when he got home and lily played some games (monopoly) at her house with hers. 

Having the Japanese students is always great fun! Who knows what might happen in the rest of the week! I would defiantly recommend it to anyone.

Have you ever had someone from a foreign country stay at your house? If you have, what did you do?   

Mad hair and socks day

Properly Packaged

There are many aspects to the Dairy Industry. For dairy product to arrive on our tables, involves a lengthy process, starting with life on a dairy farm. The milk that a cow has produced must be carefully stored so that its quality is maintained and contaminant-free.

This week the students have been set a STEM-ed challenge of creating a package that can hold 500 ml of  milk. They are to think as an engineer would to solve the problem of creating a waterproof container that can transport milk. The closest design to the 500 ml capacity will gain extra points. The students only have the following items to use for the challenge. 

The students have had to draw their ideas first before constructing their designs, discussing the different options, as part of the challenge is that they will not receive any replacements if the items fail in some way. They will need to modify their design. Often projects in life will mean working with the resources that we have, rather than an unlimited budget. 

The students will complete their designs and then will reflect on them as a group. They need to be able to explain how their design achieves the brief. The design that achieves the highest score will receive a prize. 

It will be interesting to see the designs that the students come up with and to see how they go about solving the challenge. Stay tuned!

The Vote is in!

Our Picasso Cow project is progressing along!

The students in Years 5 and 6 voted on the designs of their peers to choose the designs that they felt showed the theme "From Paddock to Plate" theme. 

These are the designs that received the most votes:

Amelia, Jemimah and Livia's Design

Zoe and Payten's Design