This week we have been learning about the famous Scientist Archimedes. We learned the story of his “Eureka” moment and used this as our focus for our writing. We all became reporters for the morning and wrote our own article about Archimedes discovery. We had a “Mission Impossible” to include quotes in our articles, we all achieved this and learned about using speech marks effectively. Great work P5!
Carrying on our theme of water in Science we have started to look at floating and sinking. Why do huge (and very heavy!) metal ships float? This was the question we asked ourselves as it challenged our idea that heavy things sink. Using blu-tak we made a ball shape and dropped it into water, and of course it sank. Using the exact same blu-tak we had to investigate how we could change the shape to make it float.
Reece said “I think it has something to do with the amount of surface on the water that it takes up that makes it float”.
Most groups had some success! Try it out at home but don’t use play-doh as this goes yucky in water, Mrs Currie knows after a very slimy incident with orange play-doh! We hope it will be plain sailing (this was meant) next week when we continue the investigation into why ships float.
In Maths we have continued learning about fractions. Our focus was finding a fraction of an amount. Using our times table knowledge and our division skills we worked hard on this. Please use the help sheet given out at Parents Meetings to help you quicken your recall of your tables.
Have a great weekend.
Sounds like a productive week P5 – well done! Looking forward to hearing more about your sinking and floating investigations – sounds exciting!