We really enjoyed Science week in our class! 

Science Experiments 🧪We got a balloon to blow up using a bottle, some water and an Effervescent tablet. We loved seeing the reaction from the tablet and the water and seeing the release of gas which blew up the balloon! 🎈We made a lava lamp by filling a glass with oil and water mixed with food colouring then we took turns dropping in pieces of an effervescent tablet and watched in aw as the tablet reacted with the water again and caused bubbles of lava up through the oil! 🫧We placed butter beans into a glass of water and they sank to the bottom then we dropped in some effervescent tablet and the bubbles released caused the beans to dance up and down in the water like dancing ghosts! 🫘 We did the walking water experiment to see how capillary action works! ⚗️

Food Exploration 🍲We made our own vegetable soup 🥣 

Technology 👩🏻‍💻 We used computers, tablets and the interactive board for our all our subjects this week 💻

Fine motor 🫰🏻We used magnets 🧲 

Construction 🚧 We used lots of different blocks to build with this week 🧱

Showcase 🥼 We visited Senior Infants to see them showcase their science experiments 🧫 

First class really enjoyed several activities during Science Week 2022. We explored our sense of touch and examined to see if wearing gloves affected our ability to recognise objects through touch.  We also investigated how well our sense of smell was in recognised different smells. We had to go outside for our materials mixing experiment where we saw a "Halloween Ghost" balloon inflate through science magic! When discussing great inventors and explorers, Áine read the story, "Deep Sea Adventure", to the class so that we could all hear about a first time diving exploration. What a brilliant week!

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1. We did the skittle rainbows experiment 🌈 : The skittle shells melted into the water to create a rainbow.

2. We made magic milk 🥛: When we dipped our cotton buds in dish soap and touched the milk the colours swirled around the milk 🍥.

3. Walking Water 🚶‍♂️💦 : We set up our cups with red(1,7) , yellow (3)  and blue(5) water. The kitchen towel carried the water from one cup to the next, mixing colours on the way 🟢🟠🟣.

We had a great week. Well done to all our little scientists ❤️

Junior Infants demonstrated the Skittle Rainbows Experiment 🌈  & the Magic Milk Experiment 🥛 to Senior Infants.

Senior Infants demonstrated Lava Lamps 🌋 , bubbling magic potions 🪄 , Fireworks in a glass 🧨and balloon separation of salt and pepper 🎈to Junior Infants.

We were working scientifically in 3rd class for science week 2022.

We explored how we could create a chemical reaction to create our own lava lamps and we investigated if it was possible to change milk to a bone like structure using an acid! 

We had lots of fun in 1st class this October. Check out some of the things we got up to!

Maths Week: Creating 2D shapes

Science: Making Mini Greenhouses

PE: Football with Diarmuid and Athletics with Noel

RE: Learning about the Rosary

Art: Clay Spiders

We also went on an autumn walk and found signs of autumn in nature. We brought back some leaves from our walk and made leaf rubbings.

And of course, we get dressed up and celebrated Halloween!

Junior Infants carried out some spooky Science experiments for Halloween this year! 👻

Dancing Ghosts 👻:

We explored static electricity in class. We rubbed balloons off of our hair and held the balloon over the paper ghosts. The static electricity made the ghost 'dance' 👻👻.

Making Potions 🪄:

The witches and wizards made some marvellous potions for Halloween. We explored the reaction that occurred when we mixed baking powder and vinegar 💥 alongside some spooky ingredients! It was very exciting 🪄🪄

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