Making Crystals

We looked at changes, mixing, melting and dissolving.
Then we looked carefully at a variety of crystals- salt, sugar, epsom salts, washing powder and found each crystal had its own special shape. We dissolved these in boiling water.  We had fun making and eating jelly.
Then we made our own crystals dissolving them in boiling water. We had to decide what we wanted the crystals to grow on. Some people grew their crystals on tinsel, string, ribbon or paper shapes.
The epsom salts grew the quickest and the best.

Swimming

Every day at 11am we line up and get on the bus and head to DNI Pool. We are all trying really hard with our swimming, listening to the instructors and doing what they tell us. Everyone has improved which is so good with summer coming and hopefully lots of hot weather.

Marble Tracks

At the end of our Forces topic we made marble tracks.We read the Inventors Diary and saw how that class worked and made their track and we watched some Youtube videos of some amazing tracks. We designed what we thought we would make and gathered up some tubes and anything else we thought would be useful. Mrs Evans-Weir said we needed to have....

                   a straight part.....a downhill part.......an uphill part......a jump....... a loop or curve.

We got to work and pretty soon our plans weren't being used and we were inventing as we went along. We started on Monday and we had to finish on Thursday. Unfortunately we had to tidy away at the end of each day so the room could be tidied and vaccuumed.

This track was the most successful.

                                                  Here are some photos of our progress.

                                                           

Gravity Beads

Photos by Anaka

As Mrs. Evans-Weir released the beads out of the container the beads were affected by gravity. They made a very chain-like noise. The beads are about 7 meters long. Layla

Mrs Evans-Weir tugged at the beads. Down they came in 6 seconds. They didn't look like beads. They looked like a thick string.  Seven meters of beads in 6 seconds!  Gravity was the key to them coming down so fast by the way. Annabelle

Parachutes

The parachutes were billowing out.They slowly made their way down to the ground with the force of gravity. The air pressure made the parachutes slow down. They hit the ground hurtlessly as the partners caught them. By Reg.