Maniacs - Learn through Play

15/01/2025

a number of tickets became available due to cancellations. They are available on eventbrite.

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-2025-steamfusion-tickets-1070527690139

11/01/2025

31/12/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-2025-steamfusion-tickets-1070527690139

Due to high demand, tickets are selling quickly. To ensure availability for term 1, please register promptly.

31/12/2024

31/12/2024

a gorgeous dungbeatle here in the South African bush. This little dude is one of my favourite insects!

31/12/2024

Happy new year Maniacs! I can't wait to see you all again in 2025. Just a few snippets of the past week in africa.

18/12/2024

07/12/2024

This is going to be awesome!

Term 1, 2025, we will be working on being an entrepreneur and building your very own food business.

Together we will be looking at real world food trucks and where they operate before you create your own from scratch. You will be in charge of the planning from start to finish, from the name and designing the logo, the layout of the kitchen and the pricing of the menu and so much more.

In this, we will cover mathematical concepts such as measurement, area, perimeter, decimals (for those ready) and have a fun time while doing it.

I have 2 sessions available, Roleystone and Kalamunda.

🌟 Roleystone will be running fortnightly on Mondays, 11am - 12pm. (Feb 10, Feb 24, March 10, March 24, April 7).
Price: $20 / session + Room Hire ($16 for additional children).

🌟 Kalamunda will run weekly with the sessions alternating between entrepreneurship and math games. Sessions will run Mondays 2pm - 3pm. You are welcome to book in for just maths, just entrepreneurship or can come every week.
👉 Entrepreneurship Only (Feb 10, Feb 24, March 10, March 24, April 7).
👉 Maths Only (Feb 17, March 17, March 31).
👉 Entrepreneurship and Maths (Feb 10 - April 7).
Price: $22 / session ($18 for additional children).

Limited spaces available.

Each week progresses into the next and due to this, bookings must be made for the term.

Years 3 - 6 (Y2 welcome with parent support).

Registration now open here: https://forms.gle/2Yqud1vUgFhZ3Jna8

07/12/2024

07/12/2024

I was asked for Tickets availability update so people can decide when to purchase for term 1.
Here it is.

link to tickets. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/term-1-2025-steamfusion-tickets-1070527690139

06/12/2024

One of our honeschool parents Freyja Vor are organising an amazing holiday session. It will be amazing for those wanting to prep for highschool academic programs like Gate and LEAP and learn just general test writing skills.

Scholarship and testing preparation course with Dr John West. The course would be pitched at students who are in year 6 next year. There will potentially be 7 classes covering the following content:

Session 1:
-Introduction to scholarship tests
-Identification of target skills
-Developing test taking and time management skills

Session 2:
-General ability testing
-Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
-Skill development and sample G*T questions

Session 3:
-Mathematical ability testing
- Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
-Skill development and sample Mathematics questions

Session 4:
-Non-Verbal and Spatial Reasoning
-Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
-Skill development and sample questions

Session 5:
-Verbal and Language skills
-Test taking strategies
-Identification of key skills
- Skill development and sample reading test questions

Session 6:
-Scientific and Quantitative Reasoning
-Identification of key skills
-Skills development and sample ICAS questions

Session 7:
-Students will have the opportunity to work through sample scholarship tests and past competition papers with assistance provided as necessary.

Classes will be held in the Swan Area of close by. The costs involved will depend on the number of students. I have set costs for John and I also have room hire costs. I am hoping to get around 15-20 students and with the costs estimated at around $25 per session or $175 for the full program. You will be committed to paying for the program in full.
If you are seriously interested please pm
freya for more information.

29/11/2024

Here is a photo of Drago (Western Bearded dragon) for those that asked tonsee an update.

26/11/2024

I still have a few spots available for this STEAM series but they are filling fast.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AfuvExYdk/

Hands-on STEAM fun! Students explore science concepts with creative challenges, from foosball tables to DNA extraction.

19/11/2024

We are going to run another round on Mon 25 Nov!

SPECIAL EVENT (for kids 8+): Beachcombing + Helping Habitats
Join us to explore what the tide brought in and collect seagrass fruit to help with restoring local seagrass meadows.

Link to rego form: https://forms.office.com/r/EAPe8j6w3q
🐙🐡🐠🦑🐬🦭

19/11/2024

Today we tested a few.different techniques to clean up an environmental oil spill and played with oil and water and learned about the unique characteristics of soap.

12/11/2024

This weeks Maniac lesson is all about "Why do sharks float?" Today we explored density and learned that sharks stay buoyant due to their fatty livers. To test this, students created "fish" using water balloons filled with materials of different densities. We made air fish, freshwater fish, saltwater fish, oily fish, and some kids experimented with mixed concentrations to see if their fish would sink, float, or bob in the middle of a freshwater bottle. Afterward, we drew conclusions about the density of each type of fish compared to water.