Jelly Making

Another exciting science experiment was to make jelly so that we could observe how sugar crystals dissolve and how the liquid jelly mixture became a solid. Most of the children were also able to enjoy tasting the three different flavours - strawberry, lime and blackberry.

Teddy Bears Visit Room 5

Our class welcomed some special teddy bears and soft toys to celebrate a belated Book Week. After reading some books about a teddy bear by Diana Noonan and viewing a video about the first teddy bear, we decided we could also have a toy day. Our special cuddly toys looked so adorable! Everyone had a teddy bear or soft toy to share and then we took turns handing out cards to describe each one.

A Different Day

Yesterday we had an unusual start to the day! As we arrived at school we heard the blaring, ear-piercing sound of the burgular alarm going off across the school. We couldn't go into our rooms because they were so noisy so we had to wait outside. Unfortunately the alarm was faulty and a technician needed to come and repair it. This took a long time but fortunately the alarms were not sounding in the senior school so we were able to go into Room 27. We joined Mrs Bates and her Year 5 children and they very kindly read us stories until the alarm had been switched off. Hooray! That was a crazy way to begin a Wednesday!

Dancing Raisins

As budding scientists we looked at the ingredients (baking soda, water, vinegar and raisins)for this experiment and made our own predictions as to what would happen when we made a mixture using these. We dissolved the baking soda in water and then added the raisins, followed by the vinegar. As soon as we added vinegar there was a big reaction! The mixture filled up with bubbles and totally overflowed on to the table! Then we noticed that the raisins began to rise to the surface of the mixture and they would go down again. After looking carefully and thinking about the reasons for this, we decided that the bubbles around each raisin made it lift up but once it got to the surface, those bubbles popped and the raisin once again sunk to the bottom until enough air was able to lift it up again.