Blinding us with science!!!

We have been finding out about displacement in Room One.
First we found out how many drops of water we could fit on a 10 cent piece. It was heaps more than we thought!!!

Then we created a hypothesis about how many paper clips we could fit in a full cup of water. We guessed between 4 and 60. Amazingly we fitted 300!!! The surface of the water in  the cup was bulging up!

The next day we tried all sorts of different objects. Marbles, plastic counters, dice and felt pen lids. We decided that the bigger the space an object takes up the more displacement occurs and the higher the water rises.

We also found out that water has a skin. If you carefully sat a plastic counter on the top it would float! We are going to learn about how it has a skin or surface soon!

WELCOME BACK TO TERM 2!!! It's great to be back in Room one! I have had a BIG cleanout finally and with the new furniture we now have, Room one looks awesome. Parents, feel free to come and have a look! Thank you for your efforts in reducing our class rubbish!
You may remember after a three week count we had 55 chip packets. 6 weeks later we are down to 19 over the last 3 weeks. We are now adopting a zero lunch rubbish policy at school so our kids will be taking all their lunch rubbish home each day to try and reduce our school rubbish bill. We learned that if we have one less skip at school we will save about $400 for the school. That will buy us 8 new lily pad cushions for our class!
We are also doing ice skating and swimming this term! Please keep looking in the school newsletter for details. Thanks Alistair