Category Archives: Fine motor

27.3.24 Noah’s Ark!!! Growing rainbows!!! Capillary action!!!

In class we read the story of ‘Noah’s Ark and the first rainbow’.  This gave us the idea to try to create our own rainbows.

We set up cups of coloured water then dipped the ends of kitchen roll into each one.  It was left overnight and we saw that the colours had climbed up the kitchen roll and stopped when they met the other colours.  We saw that the green and blue worked the best, although the green looked more like yellow.

In this experiment, we used coloured pens to make stripes at the ends of the kitchen roll then put them into water.  We watched the colours move really quickly up and along the kitchen roll to create a rainbow.  It moved so fast it was like a ‘stampede’.

25.3.24 CD hovercrafts!!

A few videos of the hovercrafts.  They were a bit tricky but everyone had success.  We even found out that sometimes it’s easy to pull up the wrong bit!!!

6.3.24 Sailing boats and surface tension

We made sailing boats with a cardboard base then added sails.  Wind power was used to get them to move.  Passengers were added as an extra challenge.

 

We also spoke about surface tension on the water and made cardboard boats that could move by themselves when placed in clean water!