Magnet morning

We had a very interesting morning with magnets.

We had five magnet stations.

The first station investigated what objects would stick to magnets and then they recorded their findings.

The second table investigated how strong different kinds of magnets are.

The next table investigated magnets attracting and repelling each other.

The fourth table investigated what things a magnet would work through. They recorded their findings.

The fifth and last table had a chance to play with magnets and iron filings.
We also learned to keep magnets away from computers and watches because these can be damaged by computers.

It was a very enjoyable morning.

We learned lots about magnets.

Tigtag is a winner!

Tigtag was the winner of the Primary Digital Content category of 

the British Educational Training and Technology awards in London this week.

Teacher loves Tigtag and sometimes helps this group.

Circuits and electrical circuits

We practised making electrical circuits again today.

Once we were happily getting our circuits to light, we had fun with electrical quiz games.

When we got the answers right the lights lit up, but when our answers were wrong the lights did not light up and we had to try again.

 We are good at these.

Electrical circuits

In class we have been talking about electricity, how Michael Faraday discovered electricity.  We talked about keeping safe around electricity in the house, and we made our own electric circuits.  We also had a chat about what life was like long ago without electricity, about what children of long ago might have played with (because there was no electricity back then) and about how machines in the house have changed since electricity became available.

Today we made simple circuits.

The first time we tried we used a battery, a bulb and two wires.

The next time we used a battery, a bulb but only one wire.

We were safe touching these wires because we were working with batteries.

We never touch the sockets in class.  This keeps us safe.

Here are some fun games you can play to help understand electricity.

Explorer's Education Programme

Noirin came back to visit us today and to teach us some more about marine life. We learned lots of big words - one was 'camouflage.' We then did a fun activity where we cut out shapes from newspaper and tried to camouflage them onto another sheet of newspaper!

Noirin looked at our project which was about seahorses. We learned lots about seahorses when doing our project. Did you know that seahorses swim upright and that they are the slowest fish in the ocean?

Finally, Noirin showed us a diagram of a squid, before producing a real squid for us to examine! We took turns holding him before Noirin cut him open so we could see inside him! We even got to write using his ink!

Before Noirin left she presented us with a certificate for taking part in the Explorer's Education Programme. We had great fun. Thanks, Noirin!