Farewell P5c!!!
Papier-mache
We got messy making papier-mache helmets.
We have now painted them and are looking forward to using the glue gun to add more detail.
We look forward to showing you the end result!
Watch this space!!!
Discovering Microscopic Objects!
We had great fun today taking photos using the Discovery Microscopes.
We looked at different materials including card, paper, plastic and cotton and then we were more adventurous and looked at the hairs on our arms, inside our mouths and up our noses!
it was really funny and some parts were disgusting but it was such a fun activity.
Pop-up Cafe
Gabriel – “Me and a group of children made a cafe selling marshmallows, cake, lemonade, tea and coffee and fruit kebabs. We sold three quarters of it and made some money for three charities”.
Mandarin
Samantha – “Our last week of Mandarin was really fun because we made a paper panda”.
Photosynthesis Experiment
Felicity – “In Science we put a leaf in a glass beaker of water by the window and one in a dark place. We saw loads of Oxygen bubbles at the one with the most light”.
Transition Powerpoints
We have been given the responsible role of producing Transition Powerpoints for all the C classes.
Keep an eye out on our school website for them…coming soon!!
Air Resistance Science Experiment
We looked at how the size of a parachute affects the speed it falls at.
We discussed that all variables had to be kept the same except one. This would ensure the experiment was fair.
The following were factors in the experiment –
- The material of the parachute
- The size of the parachute
- The length of the string holding the parachute together
- The weight of the blu-tac holding the parachute together
- The height the parachute was dropped from
The variable that we changed was the size of the parachute. In groups, we made parachutes of different sizes (20cm², 40cm² and 60cm²). We measured using a ruler on black bin bags and cut them out. Then we attached the same length of string to all of them and the same weight of blu-tac.
Next we made predictions. Which parachute would have the most/least air resistance?
After that we went to the atrium and tested our parachutes. We had a lot of fun doing this!
We timed the drop of each parachute three times with a stopwatch and then worked out the average.
We concluded that the bigger the surface area, the more air resistance and the longer it would take for the parachute to fall to the ground.
  
Clay pandas
Here are just a few of our pandas that we made out of clay.
It was very messy and lots of fun!
Getting up close with pandas
Thank you so much to @Sandie_Robb for coming to visit us from The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
We learned lots of new facts and some new phrases to say in Mandarin.
“I learned that pandas look like rats when they are first born”. – Patrick
 
We especially liked holding the panda poo! 🙂
