Lá Fhéile Pádraig

We had a Céilí in the school hall of Friday to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. We all wore green, don't we look great?

 

 

We all  did some set dancing at the Céilí. We have been practising our dance for weeks. We danced in groups of four and did a great job remembering all the steps. Katie danced a reel by herself. She was fantastic!

St. Patrick banished snakes from Ireland. We cut out spiral snakes in class. We added pattern to our snakes using bubble wrap and paint. We painted lollipop sticks to use as tongues.

Handwriting

We sent our entries to the INTO Handwriting Competition this week.We have been working really hard to make our handwriting as neat as possible.

We try to remember the three P's:
1) Posture (how we sit)
2) Paper position
3) Pencil Grip

   

   

  

                                    

                                   

                                          

Drumming Workshop

We had a drumming workshop this week . It was so much fun . We got to try lots of different types of drum. We learned that a drum makes a different type of sound depending on what part of it you hit. We have really good rhythm in Room 14!

The Magic of Music

We have been enjoying The Magic of Music workshops every Wednesday in Room 14. We learned about the different genres of music such as rock, classical, hip-hop and rock n' roll.

We talked about the mood of different pieces of music and responded to this by drawing.

We investigated the tempo of different pieces of music by throwing balloons in the air in time with the music.

                                       

                                       

                                       

We also learned to identify the pitch of music as high, medium or low by playing music games.

Which is the Strongest Magnet?

       

We carried out an investigation to see which of four different types of magnet was strongest. Teacher asked us for ideas on how we could find out which was the strongest magnet. We had lots of different ideas. We decided to test the four magnets by seeing which would hold the most paper clips.

First, we made some predictions....

...then we started investigating. We had to make sure that the test was fair, because some of the magnets were bigger than others. We linked the paper clips together and only stuck them to each magnet at one point.

Here are our predictions and results:

We decided to make a bar chart of our results. It was really useful because it allowed us to see very clearly which magnet was the strongest.

Rocket Launch

Room 14 had our own stall at the Science Fair . Our experiment was called Rocket Launch .

Have you ever noticed what happens if you let the air out of a balloon? The air goes one way and the balloon moves the other. Rockets work in much the same way . Gases coming out of the engine push the rocket forward.

We put a string through a drinking straw and tied the two ends of the string to stools to pull it tight.

We blew up a long balloon using a balloon pump.

We kept the air in the balloon using a clothes peg.

We used sellotape to attach the balloon to the side of a straw.

We took off the peg to let the air fly out of the balloon, pushing it forward along the string.

One- Two- Three- Blast Off !