OUR CHRISTMAS ART WORKSHOP!!

We sewed these little Christmas trees using felt, assorted buttons, wool and darning needles. Many of us had never sewed before so we really enjoyed learning this new skill.

 Our paper bag stars came out really well. To make one of these you have to decorate 7 paper bags, glue together in a special way and cut off the corners. Then you slowly open them up and voilá!

Lakeland Dairies Taste Testing

Our local Lakeland Dairies asked us to taste test some of their new milkshakes and give them feedback. They were delicious and we loved tasting them! Thank you to Lakeland Dairies.

SEAI Workshop 6th December

We learned so much about Climate Change, different forms of energy and how energy cannot be created or destroyed.

It was a brilliant workshop!

SCIENCE WEEK 3rd and 4th class November 2018

Sound Vibrations:

This month we are learning about the workings of the 

human ear and how sound is made.

We experimented with how we hear sounds by making 

paper cup telephones out of string and cups.  When you 

pull the string taut the sound waves vibrate through it 

from cup to cup!

Mending a broken plate with warm milk:

 The idea is that the protein called casein in the milk expands when heated and forms a natural plastic and fills in the cracks. It then bonds with the surfaces and as it cools, becomes one with your china. We broke a plate and stuck it together with tape. Then we immersed it into a basin of warm milk for two days.

                                      
                                     

Kitchen Chaos!

Baking soda and vinegar:

When you mix these two ingredients together they cause a chemical reaction which releases gas.  We experimented to find out…

We put vinegar in a bottle and baking soda in a balloon. Then we fixed the balloon to the bottle and allowed the baking soda to fall in to the vinegar.  The reaction caused gas to be released which resulted in the balloon blowing up!!

 We put baking soda into a sandwich bag and quickly poured vinegar into it and zipped it up.  We stood back and watched the bag blow up with all of the gas.  The liquid started to spurt out of a tiny hole in the bag!

Caution: Do this experiment in a bath or outdoors as it is quite messy!!

  Bouncy Egg Lamp

When you soak a fresh raw egg in vinegar for 24 hours something amazing happens.  

The outer hard shell disintegrates leaving just the membrane of the egg holding it all 

together. This makes the egg seem “bouncy”.  We put the egg sitting on top of a phone 

torchlight and the result was beautiful-it looked like a lava lamp. You could see right through the egg and locate the yolk.

Coke Milkshake!!

When Coke is mixed with milk, the 

phosphoric acid goes to work 

and milk curdles into little clumps. 

What's surprising is what a change 

that reaction makes to the Coke. ... 

We're left with a bottle that is full 

of liquid made from Coke and milk 

juice, with the acid and protein 

clumped together and out of the way.

It looks disgusting!!