We did lots of experiments and investigations duringscience week. It was really fun trying all the different things. I liked the rocket mice. We had a challenge in the class to see whose mouse would go the highest. We learned it depended where you hit the milk bottle and how hard you hit it. We thought the smaller milk cartons worked best. We tried some explosion experiments outside but they didn’t really work. We used bicarbonate of soda and fizzy tablets. Nicole and Teegan
In Primary 4 we made hovercraft out of an old CD, a sports cap and a balloon. We tested them on different surfaces. I tested mine on water and it floated for a bit, but when the air was out it sank. It worked the best on the lino because it was smooth and not too rough.
AJsinky
We made balloon racers from balloons, straws, bottles and junk. The balloon was going to power the cars. We had a race with Primary 7, to see whose went the furthest. Aidan won for P7 and me and Shannyn won for P4. We worked hard on our racer and had fun racing them.
Abster
In Science we made Rocket Mice. We got a piece of paper and cut it into a cone shape. We got a bottle put the mouse on the bottle, hit our hands against the bottle and made the mouse fly. We tested different types of bottle to see which made the mouse fly highest. We found out that the big fizzy juice bottle was the best. We then got to decorate our mice too.
On Friday we planted our potatoes in the classroom. We had some compost and put the seeds that had been chitting into the soil. We filled the bag half full and gave them a water. We have put them in the sun and hope they will grow tall. Kellie
On Wednesday 14th March we went to Falkirk High School to visit biology. Mr Stewart was with us and he was teaching us. Christine from CATCA came along too to see what we were learning about. We looked at some of the creatures that our brown trout are going to be eating now they are living in the river. We looked at them with 10x power microscopes. It was scary looking at some of the insects as they looked huge! Shakira
This week is Science Week. We have been doing lots of science experiments in our class. We have tried balloon racers and we had lots of good ideas but they did not go. Some worked but some did not work. We were learning about friction and made cool space ships using cds and bottle lids. Michael andRoss
I made my rocket out of drain pipe, plastic cups and bottles. It took about 2 weeks to make, the hardest bit was to stick it all together. I really enjoyed painting it and my Papa helped me finish it.
By Taylor.
Basically, I started off with a coca cola bottle and then I used special tape that is paintable. After that, I used a toilet tube and made a slit, I pulled it tight enough to go over the top. Finally, I taped it with the tape. For the shuttle I used two toilet tubes taped together, then I used a small amount of a toilet tube and cut it to a point, taped it down and for the wings I used a pizza base and cut two wing shapes out of it. Finally I added a triangle for the tail fin and painted it!
Sophie.
My rocket is made out of an empty juice bottle. The wings are empty toilet roll tubes. I covered it all in white card, cut out the wings and stuck them on. We painted the top of it and the wings, then covered it in stars. I enjoyed painting it the most.
Our teacher Mrs Buchanan has set P6 a homework task to build our own space shuttle. We all got 2 weeks to complete this task (it is not finished yet it finishes on the 10th February).The reason why we are making a space shuttle is because our topic this term is space. It is very fun and very interesting all of our class know lots of facts about space, space shuttles , space men , and loads more
On Wednesday 1st February Primary 5N received their fish eggs! Joanna came and spoke to our class about the eggs and told us about brown trout and their life cycle. She told us how we should look after them and nurture them. There are 250 eggs that went into our tank and they were orange in colour. We could see black spots on the eggs which is the fish eyes! We will need to check our fish on a daily basis and make sure that the temperature is between 5 – 10 degrees.
This week we have been learning about Buoyancy and we learned what volume means. We put cans of Pepsi in a box of water and one of them sank but the diet Pepsi floated. It was very exciting. Callum
On Wednesday 1st February Primary 5N received their fish eggs! Joanna came and spoke to our class about the eggs and told us about brown trout and their life cycle. She told us how we should look after them and nurture them. There are 250 eggs that went into our tank and they were orange in colour. We could see black spots on the eggs which is the fish eyes! We will need to check our fish on a daily basis and make sure that the temperature is between 5 – 10 degrees. 
