Grade 5/6 have had a busy start to the year. We’ve been doing a lot of setting up and getting to know each other so we can head into 2022 organised and ready to learn. Part of the fun we will participate in this year is a Pen Pal Program run through the Monash University. The university has collected some data on our interests and knowledge of science and scientists. With that information they have matched each child in our class up with a real life scientist to exchange letters across the year. This will give us a great opportunity to get to know what is involved in becoming and working as a scientist in any number of fields. Some of us hope to be matched with a space scientist or a biologist. Others think it would be great to write to a scatologist or a coprologist (you’ll have to look that one up). One of the first activities we have done is to draw what we perceive a scientist looks like at work. It will be interesting to compare this drawing to one we will do at the end of the year to see if perceptions have changed or stayed the same.

Tamara Tucker
Grade 5/6