A mini Mount Vesuvius in our class!

We have been learning all about Italy this week.

There is a great big volcano called Mount Vesuvius in Italy. It famously erupted in 79 AD, burying the Roman city of Pompeii in ash and lava. We have studied this event in our history lessons.

Today for a science lesson we made our own working volcano!

It was great fun being a scientist.

A Class of Wonderful Young Scientists!

This week we have been looking at what's in our food.

We learned that carbohydrates are the fuel that we burn to keep our bodies going.

As Ms. Brady said "It's like the petrol that keeps the car moving."

We did a scientific test to see which one of these has the most carbohydrates, a cracker, bread, banana, pasta or water. We put a little of each food into a plastic glass.

Iodine is a liquid that shows us if carbohydrates are present in something.

We then used a pipette to put a little iodine on top of each food.

The more carbohydrates that are in the food, the quicker the iodine will go a dark black colour.

The bread went the darkest colour the quickest, meaning it had the most carbohydrates.
The banana was nearly as fast, meaning it had loads of carbohydrates but not quite as many as bread.
The pasta took a little while to go dark. We think it might have been quicker if we had cooked it first.
The cracker took the longest to go a black colour, meaning it had some carbohydrates but not a huge amount.
The water stayed the same reddish brown colour no matter how much iodine we added or how long it was left. We deduced that this means that water has no carbohydrates at all.

Ms Brady

Our class are lucky enough to have a wonderful new teacher, called Ms. Brady, join us in our class for the next few weeks.

She will be doing lots of really interesting and fun lessons with us until the 13th February.

We are a very lucky class!

Yoga

We had our first yoga session this week.

We practiced some lovely relaxing breathing techniques, some fun stretches that made us look like animals and we tried our best to hold some poses for as long as possible.

We had a wonderful time and are really looking forward to having another go next Monday.

3D Christmas Cards

We made some 3D Christmas Cards to give to our friends and families.

They are very easily made -all you need is paper, scissors, colours and glue.

No more expensive Christmas cards for us!

Pop Art

We made some pop art recently.

Each of us got a sheet of plain white paper.
We carefully drew a circle on it and divided the circle into quarters.
We coloured each section differently but used the same repeated patterns, inspired by the pop art of Andy Warhol.
Then we cut out the quadrants and arranged them beside our friends' art.

We think the end result is seriously cool and we hope you like it too.

Healthy Breakfast Morning

We were lucky enough to recently have a healthy breakfast morning in our school.

We were given the opportunity to taste lots of gorgeous food, most of which we hadn't tasted before.

There was a selection of healthy breads at one table, healthy cereals, yogurt and cheeses at another and a whole table full of bright and tasty fruits that would be just lovely for breakfast.

Thank you to the parents, Mrs. Bradley and Mrs. McCahill who organised the day for us.