Primary 5 – Page 26 – St Ninian's Primary School

Last week, in p5\6, we rehearsed for our assembly. We learned the historical meaning behind firework night. We shared our learning with p4-7, telling them the story about guy fox. We also learned the firework code and created posters to put up around the school. In art, last week, we made fireworks out of different types of pasta, we designed our firework and then added glitter to make our firework’s colourful. In music we started to learn how to play the Ukulele. As part of our science topic we investigated how the explosion in a firework happens. We made rockets out of plastic bottles and used bicarbonate soda and vinegar. Our experiment did not go to plan; we think this happened because all the air went out the bottle we needed to tighten them. We are going to try again next week.

By Danielle & Isabella

Water, water all around…

This week we have continued looking at water and followed up our water cycle learning by focusing on the states of water. We discussed ice (solid), water in it’s natural state (liquid) and water vapour and steam (gas). We conducted an investigation into what would happen to water if placed in different environments in the school, the freezer, on the heater and left under our smartboard. We discussed what would happen and any changes we would observe. We learned that the term hypothesis means to predict what would happen using some of our prior knowledge about the subject. We all agreed that the bottle in the freezer will turn into ice, here are some other suggestions as to what will also happen,

“I think the water level will go down because the water will get thicker when it turns to ice”.

“I think the water in the freezer will rise because that is what usually happens”

We recorded our findings and observation in our class “Talking Book”.

The picture shows that the frozen water has risen up the bottle. We discussed how the structure of the water molecules causes this to happen. If you want to up level this knowledge further watch the following youtube science clip which explains this and more.

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