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Our class have been given a mission: to design and make a device/apparatus to protect their egg from breaking when thrown from a height of 40m. Each group will have a slideshow showing their design and rationale. We'll publish these soon! Note from Teacher: Some brilliant ideas so far, very creative, but.... will they work?? We'll find out on Wednesday!!
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Reminder for Students:
Full uniform: Monday and Wednesday Tracksuit: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday Sports: FIFA Soccer: Tuesday (Sean O'Casey Centre) GAA: Thursday (school yard) Please wear school tracksuit and trainers! Homework Journal and Response Log to be signed every night!  Our class began using ClassDojo last week. It's an online behaviour management system that allows the teacher to award positive or negative points for behaviour in class. (fellow teachers, please click on the logo to open the application) So far, the class teacher is delighted with the application and she's sure most students are too!! We have four class groups in our classroom (named after the teacher's favourite shows from when she was small - centuries ago apparently) These are: The Smurfs, The Fraggles, The Muppets and The Wombles. Each week we will post the group winners. Look at how the class got on this week! Any parent wishing to receive a weekly progress report can contact Ms Ni Cassaithe with their email address.  We are reading the novel "Taking Sides" by Brian Gallagher as part of the "One Book, One Community" project. The book is a historical novel set at the time of the Irish Civil War. So far we are all really enjoying the story and learning about life in Dublin in the 1920's and during the Civil War.
In November, we visited Marino Library for a workshop on animal skulls and bones and we learned lots of fascinating things. Click the video below to find out more!!
We have some talented musicians in our class! Have a listen to two of our students' guitar playing!
Materials:
Petri dish Pipette Food colouring Washing up liquid Cotton bud Milk Method: Step 1: Pour milk in to petri dish Step 2: Use pipette to drop food colouring on to the surface Step 3: Dip cotton bud in to washing up liquid Step 4: Dip cotton bud in to petri dish and observe Today we looked at surface tension and found out that water has a skin! The proper scientific name for this is a meniscus! We had to predict how many drops of water could fit on a 10c coin and most groups predicted 3 or 4 but we were way off! Most groups managed at least 15 drops but one group got 28!!  Leon, Jake and Dean's coin!! Starch supplies the body with long lasting energy in the form of glucose. Starch is found in potatoes, wheat, beans and other foods. Light from the sun is a source of energy used by plants in a process called photosynthesis. This energy, in the form of starch, is stored in the plants. Inside the leaves of the plants are chloroplasts (this is where photosynthesis occurs). Chlorophyll, the substance found in the chloroplasts, attracts sunlight and starts the process of photosynthesis. This process converts carbon dioxide from the air and water from the ground and combines with light to create oxygen and starch. We used an iodine solution to test a range of foods for the presence of starch. We used pipettes to drop the solution on to the foodstuffs. The iodine will turn black if starch is present. We also tested papers and tissues and noticed that stiffer paper contained more starch than the tissue paper.            |
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