Making Obleck

a few weeks ago, Nicky made Obleck with the students out of cornflour and water. They had a great time with a lot of it ending up on the students. Thank goodness it washes out easily!

Making Crystals

Aanother experiment being done by the students is making crystals using Epsom salts and dye in the water. There are two ways of doing this being experimented with. Photos from the start and on Sunday have been uploaded to show results so far.

Both of the experiments being done are exposing the students to scientific ideas and vocabulary. The boiling point of water and the freezing point have been discussed.

I have talked to them about making crystals out of sugar or salt at home. we have also discussed the use of evaporation to collect the salt we eat. This was a revelation!

The Water Cycle

Last week, Nicky worked with the students on an experiment to do with the water cycle. They have taped small plastic bags, partly filled wih water, to the window. as the water evaporates, it forms small droplets on the side of the bag. The water level is lowering. I took this photo on Sunday. It will be interesting to see what has happened by Tuesday.

Spaghetti Challenge

Today we did Challenge 6. The materials we used were spaghetti, styrofoam, and books. The aim was to test the strength of spaghetti. We had to stick the spaghetti in the styrofoam and then put books on top. 

We learnt that the short sticks were better than long sticks. At the end, we used the spaghetti to make abridge and we put blocks on it. Everybody started taking sticks out from under the blocks and all of them fell.

Jessica

Today is the trickiest challenge of my life. Long sticks didn't work in challenge 6. at the start of the challenge we went outside. When it started to rain, we came inside.

Darius

Today we did challenge 6 and we used spaghetti and books and styrofoam. We balanced a book on the spaghetti to test the strength of it.

Kieran

Today we did Challenge 6. It was fun until my buddy gave up on me. I got a gummy bear. It was tricky. Tom ditched me and I ditched him. Short sticks were better than longer sticks. I will get revenge on Tom.

Charlie

Today it was Challenge 6.It was tricky. Aydan got stressed out. I made one. I put short sticks on. I put 6 books on.

Ollie

Amazing writing

Room 11are creating some amazing stories. I have awarded some Class Awards to a group of students. Teresa took their photo to celebrate on the blog.

Exploring 3-D Shapes

Today we were exploring 3-D shapes. The materials we used were marshmallows and toothpicks. D in 3-D means dimensional. the structures were cool. Ollie won the best structure and Zak won perfect 3-D shape. Some people had to modify our structures. Mrs Campey said, "Don't eat the marshmallows because the marshmallows are poisonous."

It was quiet and fun.

Emily

Today we were exploring 3-D shapes. I did some new shapes like a cube that turns into a diamond. It was amazing. we used toothpicks and we stuck it together with marshmallows. I thought Ollie's was like the letter R.

I looked at the interesting structures but I thought Ollie's was the winner. It is the best, interesting challenge we've ever done.

We're usually noisy but that was because it was a race but this was really quiet.

Mrs Campey is doing some fabulous work with the students in Room 11.

Cup Stacking Challenge

Another challenge was to stack cups to make the tallest tower.

In the afternoon, there was a challenge outside. I don't know what it was. You will have to check with the students!