This week we did a very exciting experiment! We first tried predicting whether certain objects would float or sink. We had to cut out the pictures of the objects and stick them under the heading of FLOAT or SINK. After we made our predictions, we carried out the experiment by filling up a bucket with water and placing the items in it.

We found out that these items floated:
-beach ball
-paper
-pen
-pencil
-loom bands
-ruler
-dice
-plastic cup
We found out that this item sunk:
-rubber

Archie said that he thinks the rubber sunk because it was heavy. So we decided that lots of things that are heavy will sink!
If we predicted correctly, we gave ourselves a smiley face 🙂 If we didn’t predict correctly then we gave the picture a sad face 🙁

To carry on thinking about floating and sinking, we decided to make art pictures of a pirate ship!
FIRST we painted the sea blue
THEN we drew a boat and cut it out before sticking on the picture
THEN some of us drew on portholes
FINALLY we stuck down lollipop sticks and our sails on top to make a jolly roger flag

We think our pictures look fantastic! What do you think?

To go along with our pirate ships, we listened to instruction on how to make pirate hats! We posed for our picture saying “ARRRRR!”

We have been very artistic this week and made another fantastic picture. We made collage flowers and layered different coloured tissue paper on our picture to make it look very interesting.

We have had a great week in Primary 1w and are looking forward to learning more next week. Next week we are looking forward to learning more about mermaids!

-Miss Wilson & P1w