Goodbye Aidan and Thank you

On Friday the 3rd of June it was Aidan's last day.
It was time for his family to return to Canada.
As a farewell gift Aidan's parents organised the most amazing cake for the children in Room 10 to share. It was delicious and the children were very much surprised.
So to all of Aidan's family a big thank you and we wish you lots of fun at your new school!

Weirdo - A character description

We have been learning how to write character descriptions during writing time. The first time we tried we based our writing on our colourful collage characters we made.

Weirdo

Weirdo is only three years old and has eyes that pop out and scare you. He wears a blue, plain dress and a light blue hat that is too small for him.

He also stands in the rain with his big umbrella and sings and dances to people walking past him. If people walk past him and don’t clap for him he will bite them with his sharp vampire teeth which are red and yellow.

Weirdo never cleans his teeth because he thinks he doesn’t need to. He is short and looks fat because his girl dress sticks out and it’s too big for him. Weirdo hates other aliens but he loves dancing. Weirdo comes from Jupiter.
By Lucy Schuler.

The 3rd Experiment on Wednesday

The 3rd experiment we did on Wednesday involved making a balloon rocket.

This was the most exciting. We tried with different shaped balloons, both inside and outside.

We even tried to make our rocket go up a hill.

Ask your child to explain what we did. It was lots of fun!

The second experiment on Wednedsday

In the second experiment, yeast was added to warm water which had a little bit of sugar in it.

The balloon expanded a little bit but we will repeat this experiment as we discovered that the yeast was 3 years old!

Experiments using balloons

On Wednesday the 4th of July we did 3 experiments using balloons.

The first was called building a fizz inflator and used vinegar and baking soda.

This is what happened because carbon dioxide was created when the vinegar and soda mixed together.

Can you get an egg in a bottle?

Can you get an egg into a bottle even when it seems not to fit?

Well the kids in Room 10 tried.

Mrs Nicholson thought she had found the perfect container but after she had taken the shell off the egg it just fell straight into the jar.

So that was no good.

Next she found a drink bottle.

The bottle had to sit in hot water for five minutes.

Then the bottle was moved to sit in a bag of ice. The egg wasa placed on top of the bottle, pointy end down.

As we watched we wondered what would happen.

Titan thought the ice would melt. Six kids agreed with him.

Lilly and Rhys thought the ice would go misty and steamy.

Michael thought that the egg would get stuck on top and it definitely did but then something else happened.

Kyle thought the egg would pop up.

Desiree thought the egg would go through the hole and fall into the bottle. Ten kids agreed with her.

Aidan thought the egg would turn blue.

Sophie thought the egg might freeze. Four other kids thought this might happen too.

What happened and Why?

The egg did fall into the bottle because the air pressure inside the bottle changed. We were all really amazed!

Learning about ice

Cutie Fingers!
Today we did 2 more great experiments both involving ice.

The first involved a glove which had been filled with blue coloured water and then left in the freezer until it changed from a solid into a liquid.

We called it Cutie fingers.

After some discussion Lilly predicted that the fingers would melt first because they are thinner.

Everyone agreed with her.

What happened?

The fingers did melt first and went all floppy.