Sewing

Room 5 are making christmas decorations. Our first step was to paint fabric with fabric paint(they look pretty amazing). We made stockings, snowmen and bells. Both Mrs H and the Kidd-li-winks learnt how to thread a needle and sew. Mrs Beswick came to teach us some of her super sewing skills. We had to show determination because it is tricky.

It was time for the stuffing. This was the fun part- playing tug of war with the stuffing to get it out.

And Mrs Claus even came to Room 5.

We sewed the last bit together. It was a different kind of stitch. It was tricky. You can see by the faces of concentration.  

Our gorgeous decorations to hang on the tree. What a clever bunch of kids.

Character Clues

The Magic Key Series is a real favourite in Room 5. The children have read many many different magic key adventure stories. 
Bottomly Potts re-read the stories to create character clues for others to guess who their character is. The character clues couldn't be too easy but needed enough information for people to read the stories and figure out who it is. 

Can you guess the characters?

 Created by Piper and Emma

 Created by Mitchell and Caitlyn

 Created by Louie and Skyla

Created by Thomas and Nathan

Science is so much fun

The Kidd-li-winks love science so much.  

We started off with 1/4 of a cup of liquid hand soap and mixed in 3/4 of a cup of warm water.

Next we stirred in 2 tablespoons of baking soda.

After that we stirred in 2 tablespoons of citric acid. The more we stirred it the bigger and more bubbly it got.

It was a chemical reaction!

It was carbon dioxide making the bubbles.

Soon it was time to play.

 Bubbles bubbles everywhere!

And we made funny noises

and drew pictures and wrote our names.

This experiment was a bonus because it cleaned our tables. They are sparkling clean.

As requested by the children I have put the amounts needed so they can do the experiments at home. 

Carbon Dioxide

We have been learning about carbon dioxide.

We tasted normal water from the tap

We made predictions about what would happen if we added carbon dioxide to the water.We are getting good at using our prior knowledge to make predictions.

Pushing the button to add carbon dioxide. It made lots of farting noises.

When we put carbon dioxide in the water we observed that it was full of bubbles.

Some of us didn't like it.

Some of us liked it a little bit.

We made lemonade. We started with lemon juice and water (they had to be equal amounts). 

We tasted it. 

We predicted what will happen when we added the baking soda.

Clever kids came up with A chemical reaction. 

They thought this would happen because the acid (lemon) was mixing with the alkaline (base).

   

Lemonade Making on PhotoPeach

We ran out of time to add a very important ingredient (the sugar) to sweeten the lemonade. 

I wonder if the lemonade will taste yummy with some added sugar?

Making colours

Beau had to show perseverance
to make his colour. Lots of adding.

Our challenge in maths was to make exact colours. We were like the paint shop where we had to match colours. We had the primary colours and had to use these to make new colours.

We had to calculate the how much of each colour we used.

George calculating how much he used
of each colour

Teague estimating how much more blue he needs
to make his green dark green

Calculations with a few water splashes

Boys making their colours 5mLs at a time
5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40

Te Au made his orange colour.

What a lot of fun with water everywhere. Surprisingly there was only one spill.  

Fraction Relay

 We had fraction relays today. In teams we had to race each other to fill our containers up with different fractions of water. As well as learning about fractions and capacity we had lots of fun on a hot day.

Ready set go!

It is tricky working out 1/4 when the container
isn't see through

Measuring and checking it is 1/4 full.

Measuring to check the container is 1/2 full.

Running with a half full container

Is our bucket half full yet?

The whole relay

We had to be careful we didn't spill any. It had to be a whole container of water.

Concentration

We have been learning how to order fractions. 1 whole is bigger than 1/2 and 1/2 is bigger than 1/4.