the water cycle

water cycle

Have you ever thought about where the water we drink comes from? Many people do not even think about the water that flows out of a tap. All the water in the world is part of the water cycle. A cycle is when a series of steps repeat itself over and over. Each stage of the water cycle repeats itself. The earth is covered by at least three quarters of water. Most of this water on earth is salt water, 97 percent to be exact. This leaves 3 percent fresh water but only 1 percent is drinkable. The water cycle goes through three main stages evaporation, condensation and precipitation. After these stages take place we have our lovely drinkable water.
Evaporation happens when the sun heats up the water in seas, rivers, lakes or bodies of water. The heat from the sun makes the water evaporate from a small body of water like a puddle. Once the heat is added to the liquid it starts to transform the water into a gas called water vapor. Water vapor is actually invisible so you can’t see it. The water vapor goes high up into the sky. However once it reaches high up into the atmosphere it starts to get cooler which then starts the next stage in the water cycle.
The next stage is condensation. How does condensation work? Condensation is when water vapor gets higher and higher into the atmosphere. The water vapours starting to cool down turning back into tiny water drops that form together to make a cloud in the sky. The clouds gets heavier and heavier until the clouds are forced to drop the tiny water droplets.
So how does precipitation work? Precipitation is when the clouds get heavier and colder that the water in the cloud turn back into tiny water droplets.  They come together as water vapour that turns into tiny little droplets. The water droplets can freeze, making them fall as snow, sleet or hail. The higher the cloud the more chance there is of snow because the air is colder and thinner which impacts on the temperature of the water vapour.  This means there is no snow in hotter areas as the water vapour does not freeze in the warm temperature. All water will fall back down to earth, this is precipitation.  

So those are the steps in the water cycle and to keep this great cycle going we need to not waste water to help the earth.                                         

People in the early Church

This week for Religious Education I was put in a group of 4 and we did a poster on famous people in the early church. Me and my group did Priscilla and Aquila. They were tent makers and followers of god. Here is a poster on it .

Book week

GSS Book Week 2019


Room 6 was hungry for books during our book week. We had a whole week celebrating all things books. We had author visits from Stu Duval and James Russell. Stu presented workshops on storytelling, cartooning and writing. James shared his books and told us stories. We did lots of cool book week activities in class like making dust jacket covers, wanted posters, bookmarks and story cubes. Finally our favourite day arrived, Friday. We got to dress up as our favourite characters and partake in the literacy treasure hunt. Overall book week is a fantastic week every year. Room 6 LOVES BOOK WEEK!
Here are some photos from our time My book week character was: Jinny Wesley I am the girl on the left

water care

Water, water everywhere! On Friday of week 6, we were lucky to have Sally from Water care come to teach us more about the water. We did a drama activity and experiments. Firstly we examined the process that water goes through to become drinkable water in our households. Our drama was based on the process that the water goes through to be cleaned. We were the water going through each stage. We had so much fun as we ventured around the school. Once we learnt how water is cleaned we then had to try and clean the dirty water ourselves. We had to create a filter system in partners. We had to do four different tests for our experiments. We experimented with a range of filters to try and test which filter system was the best.

cross country

Good Shepherd School had been busy training for cross country this term and finally the day arrived. In week 6 we all arrived at school in our running gear and had our house colours painted onto us. We were eager and ready to go and win house point. Overall the race was long and required a lot of stamina, but we were prepared. Here are some pictures from our races.