Book Week and the Egg Drop

This week 2BP set a record for dropping an egg from 340 cm before it broke. Our egg was well covered with a shield made of bubble wrap, tissue paper and cardboard. It was so much fun seeing which groups egg survived the drop the best.

On Thursday we had our school Book Week Parade. 2BP had some great book character costumes like Ned Kelly, Wally, Hannah Montanah and Spider Man. Fox who was dressed as Ned Kelly won a prize for the best dressed in Year 2.

Egg Drop and Sheep

This week in 2BP we have been busy investigating how high we can drop an egg before it breaks. When we dropped an egg on a hard surface it broke at 7cm and on a soft surface at 38cm. On Wednesday we decided to conduct an experiment and to keep it a fair test we could only change one variable. We would make the outside of the egg stronger by making a shield out of materials like bubble wrap, tissue paper, cotton wool and sticky tape. Next week we will put our shields to the test to see how well they work.

Did you know that the word 'sheep' appears in the Bible 750 times? 2BP learnt that fact this week when we talked about the importance of sheep in Bible times and read a story about the lost sheep.

2BP go to the EKKA

There is only one thing we could write about this week from 2BP and that is our trip to the Ekka! We left early in the morning to catch the train to the Ekka grounds and started our day with a snack in the Enchanted Forest. After that we visited different pavilions including the cattle, Agricultural Market, Dairy Industry and the Animal Walk. We milked a cow, collected lots of free things to take home, ate fairy floss and saw baby animals. The best part of the day was the visit to the Showbag Pavilion where we got to buy a showbag with our own money. The train trip home gave us the chance to sit and look through our bags. It was a fantastic excursion.