Ms Sorcha Ryan’s 3rd Class have been looking at Space with student teacher Ms Hanafin this week. They have looked at the Planets, the Moon and they looked at Light for Science, in particular Transparency and Opaque. They got to test several items to see if they were transparent or opaque.

For science week, Ms Olivia O’Shea’s 4th class hosted their own science fair and presented their own researched experiment to the class. Each child explained what steps they followed and the results of their experiments. A lot of fun and learning took place. We had lava lamps, volcanic eruptions, rainbows, fizzy orange, making ur own fanta, experiments to measure the amount of rainfall last night, slime, oobleck, hovercraft, dancing milk, edible play dough, storm in a jar, inflating a balloon using a chemical reaction between baking soda and vinegar, a bouncy egg and elephant toothpaste. All the children really enjoyed it and should great teamwork and creativity. Great fun and mess was enjoyed

5th and 6th classes listened to a very interesting webinar given by Dr. John Barry today as part of Science Week. They learned about Science, Health and the Environment.

Mr Ger Foley’s 5th class made Rainbow wheels, density and lava lamps as part of Science Week.

Ms Debbie Moriarty’s 6th class pupils did science experiments in class today as part of science week. Well done to all who took part.

Aistear uring November in Mrs O’Sullivan’s Junior Infant class with The Three Little Pigs, tying nicely with their houses and home theme.

They also made beautiful elf and fairy houses in art on the same theme.

As it is science week, Ms Olivia O’Shea’s 4th class looked at integrating science and art. They looked at a science/art experiment on 11th November where we looked at the surface tension of water. Water is made up of millions of water molecules. These tiny molecules want to be close together and they create a surface tension when they meet the air. Surface tension keeps the paint from sinking (mostly). We used acrylic paints dropped into water to create marbelling affect. We placed the page into the tub of water mixed with paint let it there for 10 to 15 seconds and then lifted it out. See how our marbelling turned out.