On Wednesday last 3rd and 4th Class treated the rest of the school to a very informative showcase where they set up several experiments . The Infants and 5th and 6th were encouraged to ask questions and to try out the experiments themselves. Particularly popular with the Infants was the "building a Bridge out of Paper" activity where they had to build the bridge as strongly as possible to see how heavy a load it could take. Below are photos and videos of the day. Fionn explaining conductors and circuitry
Clea explaining refraction in water Prisms are for projects! Michael explaining magnets.
Click on the button below to access everyone's finishing times from yesterday's race. Click on the button that says Questions to get the maths challenge sheet. You will need a pdf reader, if you don't have one you can download it here: https://get.adobe.com/reader/ Then answer the questions on a sheet of paper and give it to your teacher or to Ms Leahy. MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON THE SHEET! All correct entries will get a prize. Closing date: Friday 12th May The new ipads have arrived and we used them as soon as we could to research our projects.
Question and Answer Session with Daisy the Goat and Annemarie
Looking at our lunches in 1st and 2nd class, we decided to make our own food pyramids and see what food went where. The contents pyramid in the Hall that Mr Day made was the cause of much discussion about sugar. Which foods contain sugar and which ones don't? The new food pyramid puts fruit and veg on the bottom which is the widest part of the pyramid. Then we constructed pyramids from some cardboard. This was a lot more difficult than it seemed but was great fun. Listen to Jack and Katie-Ellen explaining about the different foods. What about yogurt?
The bricks were the most fun to make. We used ice cube containers as moulds and we used clay to make the bricks. The clay dried in a couple of days and we had lovely strong hard bricks to make our house. Then we put on a roof of lollipop sticks and it looked fabulous!
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