Bubbles

Yesterday Room 3 blew bubbles outside on the grass. Some bubbles blew away across the schools roof and then popped. The colours were orange, blue, pink, red, purple and green. The bubbles were see-through. When we looked inside them we could see a rainbow inside them.
Brooklyn M


On Tuesday morning we went outside on the grass. Most of Room 3 got to blow some bubbles. Some bubbles escaped. Some floated high, some floated low and some floated over the school.. Most of Room 3 children popped the bubbles.
Alex H

On Tuesday 26 October Greta blew the bubbles. The bubbles went faraway. We looked at the colours in the bubbles. We blew the bubbles outside on the green grass.
Jared


On Tuesday most of the class blew bubbles. We popped the bubbles and they were sticky. Some floated away. The bubbles had rainbows inside them. The colours were pink and yellow. Some bubbles were stuck together.
Emma

On Tuesday 27th of October Room 3 went outside to blow bubbles. Some floated in the sky and they looked like eyes in the sky. They were different colours as well. Room 3 liked the pop the bubbles. We were outside the school and it was fun.
Brooklyn F



On Tuesday the 27th of October 2010 we went outside onto the wet grass to blow some bubbles. Most of the class got to blow bubbles. The bubbles were see-through and colourful. The colours were blue, purple and yellow. Some bubbles were stuck together. They were really sticky. Most people took their shoes off and were in bare feet. We were near the stone playground. Lots of the bubbles popped on Nick. Everyone wanted to pop the bubbles. The bubbles floated up high and back down again. They flew as high as the trees. It was fun.
Breyah

On Tuesday in the morning before playtime, Room 3 went outside with Miss Swney. Most of the class had a turn at blowing bubbles. The bubbles kept blowing away.
Alex M

Peking Duck Visit

I brought my peking ducklings to school and I got to pick them up in my hands. All of the children were patting the ducklings. The mother duck wasn't a good mother because she didn't sit on the eggs. So we got a bantam to sit on the eggs.
George

Room 3 got to see George's ducklings and it was fun looking at the ducklings. The ducklings looked something like a yellow duck. They had little beaks.
Luke

George's ducklings were cool and they were beautiful. I liked the ducklings. They were yellow and only four days old.
Hannah



The mother duck was not good at looking after her ducklings so George's dad got a bantam. She sat on the eggs to make them warm. The ducklings were cute. They were yellow.
Sam

On Wednesday George's Dad brought Peking ducklings to school. They were four days old. There were three ducklings and I got to lift them up. I also got to take a photo of them. They were soft and fluffy. I got to stroke them. The ducklings mum wouldn't sit on the eggs so George's dad got a bantam to sit on the eggs.
Reid

On Wednesday the 20th of October George brought ducklings to school. The ducklings were four days old and they were cute and cuddly. The mother duck wasn't a good mother so George's dad got a bantam to sit on the eggs. The bantam was fluffy as. She had her mouth open because she was worried.
Xanthe

On Wednesday George brought three ducklings and a bantam to school. The ducklings were yellow. The mother was not happy. She had her mouth open. She tried to peck me but I saw her in time so she didn't peck me. I had a great day.
Matthew

The BIG Snow

In the weekend we played in the snow. To make a snowman you get a little bit of snow and roll it. You keep rolling the ball until it is big enough. My snowman had a carrot for it's nose and it had my scarf on. We used stones of the eyes. In the morning I saw lightning.
Greta

In the weekend I made a snowman. You have to roll snow into a ball. Then you leave it. You make another snowball and do it again and again. You put a carrot for the nose and buttons for the eyes.
Oliver



On Saturday it snowed. It happened at night. It was cold. In the morning when I woke up, I looked out the window. It was snowing so I went to Mum and woke her up. I told her that the snow was there.
Jasmine

In the weekend I saw some snow on the ground and my cat went outside. She couldn't find the cat box so she pooed on the trampoline. In the morning she jumped on my bed.
Max

On Saturday my Dad made a snowman and when he was finished we put a hat on it. We went inside after we had a snowball fight.
Paris



In the weekend I was making a snowman. I was playing a snow fighting game. I think my boots liked the snow.
Caleb

On Saturday my mum made a snowman. She had fun making it. It was very cold when I helped Mum build the snowman.
Mackenzie

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.