Wednesday morning was weird. The sky was an eerie red and a little bit scary. Many of us wondered what it was. The Weather Channel gave us the answer.
Sydney had been hit by the biggest dust storm in over 40 years. The dust came on strong winds from the central west of the continent.
It left everything covered in a thick layer of red dust. In some places it rained red mud.
Health experts advised us all to stay inside, no physical activity and all windows and doors closed.
Many classes explored the reasons for the red dust and expressed their feelings about it in both pictures and words.
Hope you enjoyed the work of Stage 2S which was inspired by the dust storm.

Look at the sheer delight on the faces of these active, excited young scientists.

Monday is a very busy day!!
Stage 2 and 3 have Music with the Jellybeans and Stage 1 and Kindies have Dance2Bfit.

The debaters are debating Burwood Public School.

AND Assembly is on at 2.00pm Monday, all welcome!

Cricket Workshops for Stage 2 and 3 are on Tuesday.

CSIRO are here on Wednesday and Thursday with Stage 1 and Kindies investigating Light 'n Sound. Stage 2 and Stage 3 had a great time doing all sorts of intriguing activites in Week 2.

Nature's Light 'n Sound

All classes will be working with scientists from the CSIRO during the next 2 weeks.

They will be learning about Light ‘n Sound.

As usual the sessions will be very active with the students being scientists rather than observers of scientists.

If you want to find out more about Light ‘n Sound look at Hunkins Experiments Site.

The first week passed really quickly and now things are getting back to normal, if ever times at school can be called normal.

This week we look forward to Dance2BFit, Jellybeans Music on Monday, CSIRO Science on Wednesday, Thursday and Years 3 to 6 Athletics Carnival on Friday.

Parent Club Meeting on Tuesday 4 August at 2pm in Community Room.

The collection of space capsules, rockets, space stations, Hubble telescope is huge.

Hope you enjoyed a glimpse of the Space capsule that first circled the moon and came back to Earth. Look at the burn marks on it. It had to land in the ocean so it didn’t smash to bits or burn up.

The Space Capsule was sent into space on top of a big rocket like in the picture.

When did man first step on the moon? Can anyone tell me? Isn’t the picture inspirational?

The way man gets into space now is on the Space Shuttle which can go back and forth like a plane,
here is a picture of one of the Shuttles. How many were there? What were their names?

The Space Shuttles take astronauts to the Space Station now.

As we were walking through the Air and Space Museum I heard a kid say “they shouldn’t being doing that now.They should be doing it at night when we can’t see them doing it!” he was really indignant.

We thought it was great because we got to see that this amazing model was so simple to put together. With rolls of gold and silver foil, wire, sticks, black paint and glue we could make one too!

Is anyone at BSPS up for the challenge? After all aren’t we are all studying stars and space and things like that next term or the term after.

One of the museums at the Smithsonian Institute is devoted to Space and Flight.

Look what we learned about flight. Look at all the people having a fun time playing around with all sorts of experiments about elements of flight. It as a really exciting place to be!

Does anyone know people who have been there?

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The Museum is actually made up of 19 museums and each of these is focussed on aspects of man’s world. As we walked along the Mall we found eight.

They were:

• National Museum of the American Indian
• Air and Space Museum
• Museum Of Natural History
• Museum of American History
• Museum of African Art
• African-American History and Culture
• National Gallery of Art
• Museum of Modern Art

Each of these museums is about twice the size of our Australian Museum in Sydney.

S2M have been having a fun time learning about static electricity as you saw from the last post.

Have a look at how they are making the Dudes they cut out of tissue paper dance.

Just rub your hair or your shirt really, really, really hard with a balloon.

Hold the ballon above the Dude and watch him dance.