Electrical circuits

Magnet morning in 2nd class

Pop Up Santas

Awesome catapult

Using our senses

Foam Rockets

Making sprays

Melting ice

Volcanoes

Meteors, craters and the end of the dinosaurs

The Water Cycle

Waterproof or not?

Space and rocket morning

Planting daffodil bulbs

All about gravity

Mould under the microscope and germs

Learn about mould, germs and staying healthy:

Rockets, rockets and more rockets

Explore the different types of rockets made for space week 2015 in Room 9 (second class).

Gloop

We had a lot of fun with gloop:

Lava lamp

Check out how we made a lava lamp here:

A dentist came to visit

Pumpkin Fun

Appreciating Autumn

Planting onions

The bloodmoon lunar eclipse

Here are a few photos that teacher took during the eclipse.

 The best time to have watched it was between 2am and 4am on Monday morning.

No wonder we were so tired yesterday!

Here's a YouTube time lapse video of the lunar eclipse.

Autumn leaves and seeds

We have lots of ash leaves with their helicopter seeds, and some ask twigs with their black buds.

We also have horse chestnut chestnuts and conkers.

Our local environment: The seashore

We went for a walk to Ballyloughane beach.

There were lots of interesting houses, signs and things of interest along the way.

We paired up with Ms. Cunningham's class and had a partner we have never had before.

On the beach each pair had a plastic container which we filled with lots of interesting things.

We found lots of things that belong on the seashore like shells, crabs, seaweed and stones.

We also found things that don't belong on the beach like a necklace, a hat, a sock, a golf ball, a large ball, a piece of plastic and a lock.

Have a look at all that we found.

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Experiments with soil

Plants and light

We know that plants need light, soil, air and water to grow.

We started an investigation today that will last at least 5 weeks.

Each group planted one container of runner beans and sunflower seeds (after first putting holes in the cups for drainage, and putting in compost).

3 of the pots will be put on the windowsill in the light, while the other 3 pots will be in the cupboard with no light.

We will water our plants every morning and see what happens to the growing plants.

It will be interesting to compare the two groups.

How much water can we soak up?

We have been talking about different materials and their properties.

We have talked about waterproof and absorbent materials.

Today we decided to see just how absorbent some materials are.

The materials we had in class were plastic, a page from a magazine, kitchen towel, tissue and newspaper.

To begin we had a guess as to which material would be most absorbent (or best for soaking up water).

Here is what we guessed...most of us thought the kitchen towel would be best, and no one at all thought that the magazine would be good for soaking up spills.

We wanted our experiment to be fair, so we poured exactly the same amount of coloured water (10ml) into 5 small glasses.  We also got teacher to cut the materials into EXACTLY the same size squares so it would be a fair test.

Next we decided that the best way to test how much water got absorbed was to try soaking it up and then pouring the left over water back into the container to see how much water didn't get absorbed.

This took a steady hand!

Here we are trying the kitchen towel,

the magazine,

the plastic,

the newspaper,

and finally the tissue.

Now we compared how much water was left over (not absorbed) after using different materials to soak up the water.

We arranged the materials in order from the most absorbent (soaked up most) to the most water proof (soaked up least).  Here are our results:

Kitchen towel was most absorbent (1ml left over), then tissue (2ml), newspaper (3ml), magazine (8ml) and last of all was plastic (9ml....it only soaked up 1ml!).

We wrote up the amounts of water left over after the soaking.

Now we know which materials are best to use whent mopping up spills.

We learned lots about waterproof and absorbent materials today.