How big are my lungs?

September 24th, 2007, Room 5 and Room 4

We made a lung out of a cut bottle, a coke bottle and a balloon. When we squeezed the coke bottle, the balloon breathed (it got bigger), just like a real lung!

We tried using a tube to blow all the air out of a bottle that was full with water. The air that was in my lungs got blown out and into the bottle of water. The air that ends up in the bottle shows just how much air was in my lungs. Bigger lungs can blow more air into the bottle than smaller lungs.

Some great balancing acts

Look at how well we can balance!

Cobweb on our classroom window

Spiders are artists too!

Room 5, senior infants, 17th September,2007

Our sense of taste

Room 5 and Room 4, September 19th, 2007

We tasted things that are bitter (natural yoghurt), salty (popcorn), sour (lemon) and sweet (jelly snakes)

Creeping Colours

11th September, 2007

Using markers, tissues, cups and water, we got colours to creep and run. We put dots of colour on the tissue, and then put the tissue into water. The tissue soaked up the water and the colours got soaked up too.We could see how different colours are made -

orange has yellow and red in it,

purple has red and blue in it,

green has blue and yellow in it,

brown is made of many colours.

Room 5 and Room 4

Shadows and Rainbows

7th September, 2007

We need sunshine (bright light) to make shadows and rainbows. On Friday, September 7th the weather was lovely and sunny so our Senior Infants went outside to make shadows. It was fun.

Next we used prisms and white paper to split white light into its rainbow colours - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet

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Off to a good start in September

Room 5 and Room 4, 5th September, 2007

The scientists from Scoil Chaitríona Junior are off to a quick start. We have been making colour wheels and finding out what happens when coloured paints are mixed together and what happens when to colour wheels when you spin them.