Science Week Thursday: Fizz Inflator!

On Thursday we mixed vinegar and baking soda to produce an acid/base reaction.
We filled a balloon with baking soda and emptied it into a bottle of vinegar. Everyone was amazed as the mixture fizzed and thousands of bubbles filled the bottle and the balloon grew bigger and bigger! The gas in the bubbles was carbon dioxide, which blew up the balloon.

Science Week Wednesday

Today we experimented with magnets in the magnetic sand!
Awesome!

At Junior Scientist's Club at lunchtime we attached metal paper clips to butterfly shapes in boxes and made hovering butterflies. We held a strong magnet over the top of the box and they attracted the metal  in the paperclips!

Science Week - Tuesday

Today our science experiment was the great candle experiment.
We lit a candle and put a jar over the top. We poured coloured water in the dish around the jar and when the candle went out the lowered air pressure in the jar sucked the coloured water into it. It was so exciting to watch! We talked about keeping safe with fire and that children must never touch matches!

Football!

Today all the Year 1 & 2 classes took turns to learn some football skills from football players from the Lower Hutt Football Club.
Our favourite was the Pirate Ship game! We learned how to dribble the ball correctly with our feet and are now much better at it!

Green Eggs and Ham

Today we enjoyed reading the story Green Eggs and Ham.  Then we made some green eggs as a science experiment to see if we could suck an egg yolk into a plastic bottle using air pressure! While the egg was in the bottle Emily squirted green food colour onto the egg white and Oliver stirred it up.
It worked but then the yolk broke when we tried to do it again! 
Matty took some of these photos! Well done everyone! You are asking super scientific questions and showing clever thinking!

Science Week- bubbles you can catch!

This week is National Primary Science Week so Room 1, along with all the other classes, will be taking part in science experiments and investigations each day.
Today we played with "catchable" bubbles. The bubble mix had a plastic polymer added that gave the bubbles a very thin coating that made them strong enough to catch on our fingers without popping!
They were so strong that Oliver and Matty found one sitting on the computer keyboard two hours later!

Certificates Week 2

Congratulations to our Room 1 certificate winners this week!
You have all worked so well!

Counting Caterpillars

Today our super Room 8 buddies helped us learn the order of the days of the week.
Together we sorted the days into the right order and put them together as a curly caterpillar.
Here are some of them!

Thank you big Buddies!

Numbers to 10

We are learning to identify and make sets of numbers to 10.

 Today we are using ladybird pegs to make a set matching each number to 10.

Wednesday Junior Scientists Club

Junior Scientists Club runs at lunchtime every Wednesday in Room 1. Two students from each Year 1 & 2 class are chosen by their teachers to come for 5 weeks to learn about science topics such as air pressure, making mixtures, magnets and electricity. Each 5 weeks a new group of students are chosen, so there will be plenty of opportunity for having a turn.
This Wednesday we investigated air pressure,launching rocket balloons and making balloon powered cars.

Tidiest Class this Week!

Well done Room1!
We have won the tidiest class in the school award this week!