Absorbency

Last week, 3C continued to explore the characteristics of materials and we learnt all about absorbency (the ability to soak up liquid). As always, our week ended with a practical experiment. Miss Campbell decided to use this opportunity to find out which teacher buys the most absorbent kitchen towels. Miss Prest and Miss Bialek were very kind and each brought in a sample for us to test. Here are the results of what we found...

Miss Bialek uses 'Tesco Value' kitchen roll , we found this to be the least absorbent. Perhaps that is why is it the cheapest. 

Miss Prest uses 'Thirst Pockets', we found this to be the second most absorbent kitchen roll. 

Miss Campbell uses 'Plenty', our results showed that her kitchen roll was the most absorbent. It was, however, the most expensive one too! 

House Colours Day

Last week, 3C has lots of fun taking part in House Colours Day. Throughout the morning, children enjoyed quizzes, song writing, arts and crafts and finally team building activities. The house teams then competed against each other in a basketball tournament. Some children played whilst other cheered them on.

During the afternoon we had an assembly in which candidates for house prefects delivered their speeches in order to win votes, we were very impressed by the standard of these.

Homework Week Beginning 30.09.13

Literacy Miss C - Write a report about humans.
Literacy Mr D - Fill in the blanks using the information provided.

Maths Miss C - Pages 29-30
Maths Mr D - Pages 31-32

Science Miss C - Can you choose the correct material?

Homework will be given out and explained to the children each Monday. This due in on Friday, however, if it is completed earlier, it may be handed in.

If any of the children have any queries about their homework, please let me know, thank you.

Residential Presentations

Dear Parents,

Next week we are giving a presentation to discuss our Kanchanaburi residential which takes place in January. A talk will be given by Mr Dyke in the Primary library at 8am on Monday 7th of October.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Regards,

Miss Campbell

Indian Elephants

I can imagine that some parents have been wondering why their children have been so desperate for empty milk bottles recently. Well, the time has come to reveal our superb artwork to you. Again, our art is based on the children's learning about India. This week, we designed Indian elephants.

Elephants have always held an important place in the Indian society, Lord Ganesha, the Hindu deity with the head of an Indian elephant is the lord master of most ceremonies and happy beginnings. Elephants are part of many major religious ceremonies, processions and even marriage ceremonies.

The children have once again been working extremely hard and produced some amazing results. Just like magicians, they were able to transform empty milk bottles like this...

Into something a little more magical...

Well done 3C, you are superstars!
Parents, please feel free to come to our classroom and have a look at our display.

Data Handling

Today was our last day of learning about graphs, we were all a little sad that this unit had come to an end.
To finish the week, we decided to put all that we had learnt to the test and spend the final lesson gathering data about different flavours of sweets.

Each table was given a packet of sweets to analyse and the children worked together to present their findings in the form of a tally chart, a bar graph, and a line chart. Some children even managed an extension and created a pie chart too!

At the end of the lesson Miss Campbell quizzed the children on what they had learnt about data handling. Correct answers won a sweet for break-time. Luckily, all of the children were able to win one! 

Just for Fun!

After all of the fun we had making our Rangoli patterns, it was time to pack away the resources. As we sorted the equipment and returned it to where it belonged, Miss Campbell had an idea. 

She sat with the class to think of about how they could make the best use of what was left. We decided to give the coloured rice to Reception and use the left over dye for a science experiment. 

The next day Miss Campbell came to school with a bunch of flowers to make her desk look pretty. The children all agreed that her flowers were very boring and not at all vibrant. Miss Campbell wondered what she could do to make them look a little prettier. Just then, she remembered the food colouring. Perhaps, she could add it to the water in her vase. 

The children thought that this was a super idea as 'it will make the water look pretty'. Suddenly, Logan's hand shot up in the air. 'Miss Campbell, do you think that the dye might run all the way up to the flower petals and change their colour?'. This wasn't the only prediction. Other children thought it would only dye the water and some believed it would dye the actual vase. It was time to find out...

First we got out our flower vases ready with water. Then we poured in about 10 or so drops of food colouring. We chose to put red in one vase and green in another. 

It was fascinating to watch the food colouring drift towards the bottom of the vase. It swirled and glided into all sorts of interesting shapes.

We began a countdown from the second it hit the surface of water to when it hit the bottom of the vase, this took 99 seconds!

Have a look at what happened...

Why don't you watch this video to see the experiment in full!
Keep posted for our results...