Easter Art

We made these cute Easter chicks hatching out of their eggs today. They look great!!

Have a look at our lovely papier mache Easter eggs. These took a long time to make but we had great fun making them. First we blew up a balloon. Next we tore up some newspaper into small pieces. We then dipped the newspaper strips into a mixture of flour and water and placed the soaked bits of newspaper on the balloon. We covered the balloon with several layers. It took a few days for it to dry and then we decorated our 'egg' by painting pretty patterns on it.

Spring Art

Have a look at these Shamrock people we made for St. Patrick's Day.




















We made these Spring lambs by rolling strips of paper up and sticking them onto the lambs. It was a lot of rolling but the end result was great!!We then coloured in the background picture and added in our own flowers.

• Our daffodil bulbs came up nicely!!
  
  
  
  

A visit to our local church - Thursday 25th February 2009

Last week we talked about special things and we all got a turn to bring in something that is special to us and to talk about it and show it to the class. This week in Religion we are learning about special places and we visited our local church. We said a little prayer for all our families and we saw the tabernacle, the altar, the sanctuary lamp, the baptismal font and a lovely statue of Jesus and Mary. We are remembering our special promises which we made for Lent, especially the first one which we all made as a class together - to be extra kind and helpful to one another. We also learned a lovely song about the church.

Hot air rises

Teacher asked us what we thought would happen if we hung some snake spirals up. Would they stay still? Would they move? We decided to investigate. First we coloured in our snake spirals and then we cut them out. We hung them above various places in the classroom (such as above our desks) but they didn't move at all. Then we hung them above the radiators in our classroom. All of a sudden there was great excitement as our snake spirals began to move. What was different this time that made our snakes move we wondered?? Then we noticed that there was warm air coming from the radiators and it was this warm air rising from the radiators that made the snakes move. Warm air is lighter than cold air. Warm air therefore rises and cold air comes in to take its place. This causes air currants - both indoor and outdoor.

A few days later teacher asked us if anyone could blow up a balloon without blowing in to it. Some people suggested blowing the balloon up with a pump but teacher said that she didn't have a pump so could we think of any other ways. Teacher only had a bowl of very hot water, an 'empty ' plastic bottle and a balloon. Then teacher gave us a clue and asked us to think about what happens to warm air and to think about what keeps a hot air balloon up in the air? We all said that it was the 'fire' ie heat. But how were we going to get hot air into our balloon to make it rise? We knew that we had to place something into the hot water so we placed the 'empty' bottle into the water. Next we placed the balloon on the top of the bottle (where the lid should be) and after a minute or so our balloon was blown up a little. The hot water warmed the air inside the bottle and the warm air rose to blow up our balloon!! The same principle works for hot air balloons and when the heat of the burner inside the balloon is turned up the hot air balloon rises and when the heat of the burner is turned down it goes down. This experiment was great fun.