Pompom Update

We finally finished winding the wool around our two pieces of cardboard. The hole in the centre was so small that it was hard to push through any more wool.


We needed to ask the children from Room 8 to come and help us to cut our pompoms because it was very tricky.


Once the wool was cut from around the outside edge, a piece of wool was tied between the two bits of cardboard as tight as possible. Then we cut the two bits of cardboard and peeled them away.


Finally after a lot of hard work we have our pompoms. A big thank you to the parents that helped some of us and to the children from Room 8.

Static Electricity - Inquiry

You will need:
a pen, a piece of tissue, a jersey

Method
Take a pen. Rub it on a jersey or through your hair ten times. Use the pen to pick up the piece of tissue paper.

Result
The tissue paper should 'stick' to the pen for a short amount of time. This is static electricity.

This is what Séamus wrote:
We did some science in Room 3 with tissue paper and a red pen. We combed the red pen through our hair. We put the red pen on the tissue paper. Then we lifted the tissue paper with the pen. Then it fell down because it lost energy.

Construction - Making Pompoms

We are making pompoms. How do you make pompoms?

You need two pieces of cardboard and lots of wool. We got the two cardboard circles with holes in the middle and then we had to wind the wool around the cardboard, in and out of the hole. We will cut it when its finished.
Brooklyn F

















Miss Swney cut circles with holes in the middle of them. There were 46 circles. We had wool for the pompoms. We had to wind the wool around through the hole in the middle. We started on Friday. When we are finished we are going to use them for sport in Room 3.
Breyah



















Room 3 made pompoms. We had two pieces of cardboard. They were a circle shape with holes in the middle. We threaded the wool through the holes. The wool felt soft and cuddly. The colours were pink and lots of others.
Emma

Inquiry -- Mix and Move

Using two glasses, we placed a couple of teaspoons of salt in one and a couple of drops of red food colouring in the other. Then we poured warm tap water into both glasses. The tap water with the salt in it needed to be stirred until the salt had dissolved.

"Dissolving is when the salt disappears into the water, like it melts". Reid

When the salt had dissolved we poured some of the food colouring water into the salted water.

The food colouring mix dispersed throughout the salted water and then it rose to the top of the salted water and stayed there.




We found that the coloured tap water moved to the top of the salted water because salt water is heavier than tap water.

More Letters - A visit from Harold

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Mum
We got to hold a puppet. I picked out a frog. TAM let us touch her heart with a wand. The whole class got to go.

From Mackenzie

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Mum and Dad
The Life Education bus came to my school and we saw Harold. He is a giraffe. We watched a movie and it was about being friends altogether. When the lights went down we had to be quiet.

From
Luke

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Mum and Dad
We have been learning about keeping safe when we are playing in the playground. In the Life Education bus we put things onto a puzzle. We watched a movie and when the lights went down we had to be quiet.

From
Oliver

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Oliver, Elsie, Mum and Dad
We went to the Life Education bus. We watched a movie. It was about being friends. Rabbit wanted to play on the seesaw and Harold wanted to go on the jungle gym. We got to see TAM and some people touched her with a wand.

From Greta

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Mum and Derek
We went to the Life Education bus and we watched a movie about Harold and his friends. We played with puppets too.

From Brooklyn

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Mum and Dad
We went on the Life Education bus and we watched a movie called 'Keeping Friends'. There was a song in in. On Thursday we watched another movie. We saw TAM and we did a puzzle. Then Harold sang a song. We played with a puppet and I had a penguin.

From Alex

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

Dear Mum
The Life Education bus came to school and we saw Harold's friends. We sang a song with Harold and we watched a movie called 'I am Me'. In the puzzle that we did we had to find healthy food. We took some stickers home. We watched two movies.

From
Jared

Letters - Dylan the drummer

Sacred Heart School

Wednesday 25 August 2010

Dear Paris,
Dylan came to Sacred Heart School and he played the drums for us. Dylan tossed the drumsticks in the air. There were 4 cowbells.

From
Max

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Paris and Greta
After prayers we went to the hall to see Dylan play his drums. I liked his music and when he flicked his sticks up into the air. It looked cool.

From Brooklyn M

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Greta
A drummer came to school. He played rock and roll. The drummer was called Dylan. Dylan had a cow bell. He put his head down when he finished a song.

From
Séamus

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Greta
We went over to the hall to watch Dylan the drummer play the drums.

From
Hannah


Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Greta and Paris
We went to the hall and we sat down. Dylan played the drums. He played rock and roll. He was good at playing the drums and I had fun. All the children were nodding their heads and we got to have a dance when he played the rock and roll. It was cool at the hall.

From
Jasmine



Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Paris and Greta
Dylan came to school. He played the drums and I liked it. He played rock and roll for us and he made the teachers dance. I had a lot of fun.

From Matthew


Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Paris
After prayers all the Sacred Heart children went to the hall to see Dylan. He could flick his sticks in the air and catch them. On the big screen was his photo and he put his drumstick in his nose. Everyone laughed.

From
Xanthe

Room 3
Sacred Heart School

25 August 2010

Dear Paris
We went over to the hall after prayers. It was good fun. Dylan was the best guy I've ever seen. He flipped his drumsticks. He was cool and he is awesome too. Dylan is a drummer. I liked the loud drums.

From
Nick

Floating Egg

As part of our Inquiry unit we carried out an experiment using an egg, salt and water. The aim was to see if we could make an egg float in water. We initially placed the egg into a container of tap water. Then we began adding measured amounts of salt until the egg floated. This experiment has left us with some questions. Please feel free to leave us a comment to help us answer these questions.

How can salt make things float in water?
If a big boat had a hole in the side of it, will it float in the Dead Sea?