Over the past few weeks we have been learning All about Magnets.

Lots of the children thought that magnets were attracted to metal objects but after some investigation we found out that Magnets are only attracted to things made from iron or steel!

This week we were experimenting to find out Which magnet was the strongest?  Illandra came up with the idea to test them by finding out how many ‘mental’ things each different magnet could attract.  We decided to test the magnets using paper fasteners.

We found out that the Circular Magnet was the strongest as it attracted all 100 paper fasteners!

Liam and Henry also suggested that we could find out the strongest magnet by investigating how close the magnets needed to be before it attracted the paper fastener.

This photograph shows how close the magnets got when the the paper fastener was attracted to them.

We have been enjoying learning all about life in Australia and comparing it to living in Scotland.

Thanks to the children who have brought in some interesting artefacts to share with the other children in class and at assembly.  Alex brought in a Didgeridoo that his dad brought back from Australia.  Liam brought in a boomerang and Kade took in a small wooden dish made in Australia.  Daniel also made an Australian Flag.

We learned that the Aboriginals painted pictures using dots so we decorated our own boomerangs using cotton buds to create the colourful patterns.

We had great fun and think they all look fantastic!