Science Week Fun!

The children had so much fun trying out different experiments this week for Science Week. We explored and learned about air pressure, surface tension, electric charge and floating and sinking. The children were amazed by some of the results and were so interested in the science behind it. Here are some photos of our experiments.

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Making lava lamps

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Skewer a balloon

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Two straws

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What’s magnetic?

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Sinking layers

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Balloon on a wall

Music Workshop with Mary Curran

Mary Curran from the Whistleblast Quartet came to the school to do a music workshop with the kids before the Halloween holidays. She spent an hour with the junior room first. We learned about volume control, the names of lots of different instruments and where they originated from, like the french horn, bongo drum, bells, cymbals, sleigh bells, cow bell, wood block and many more. The children really enjoyed it as they were actively involved the whole time and exploring with the instruments. At the end, Mary gave each child an instrument and they created an ‘under the sea’ sound. It was very interesting and so much fun! Here are some photographs from the workshop.

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An puimcín

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We had great fun carving out our pumpkin. All of the children from the Naíonáin Bheaga to Rang 2 got their hands dirty cleaning out the inside of the pumpkin! We described what it smelled like and we all suggested names to call our pumpkin. We had names like Scary Face, Mr. Pumpkin Head and Peter Pumpkin. We then put all the children’s names into the pumpkin and Paula closed her eyes and picked a name out to see who got to bring the pumpkin home. Ava’s name was picked out. She was so happy and decided to call him Mr. Pumpkin Head!