Exploring Science

Last term we looked at what Science means and how it affects us everyday. For reading we looked at a variety of books and had to find the link with science. We learnt that part of science is to understand our world better and at times to make it a better place.

 We also enjoyed investigating some science ideas. We made colour spinners and tried to make them spin so fast that our eyes were not able to keep up with all the separate colours. The wheels then looked a whitish colour as the colours looked like they were mixing up together. The opposite happens when a rain bow is made: the white light is split up and we see all the separate colours.

We also had to make a ramp that made a marble travel for 1 metre. In this investigation we learnt to modify our ideas in order to find a solution.
Other activities included musical straws where we made a 'double-reed' mouth piece similar to an oboe and whirly-gig spinners and investigating what happens when we added paperclips or cut the wings shorter. Thanks to myth busters we also learnt you can fold a piece of paper more that 7 times (with difficulty). Here are some photos showing science in action.

Sailing Boats

Sailing Boats on PhotoPeach This term the art focus has been on the techniques artists use to show objects in the background and foreground. To compete this art work we had to use three different techniques to position our boats so they appear either in the foreground or background.