Art - Fish

Art - Fish
The children looked at a range of different fish shapes on the ActivBoard and we discussed what they looked like.  Then they sketched lots of different shapes of fish using a pencil.  After that they chose their favourite fish and enlarged it onto a piece of paper.  Using pastels they coloured the fish in, thinking about complementary colours, warm and cool colours.  After that they used a black pastel to go around the outside of their fish.  The background was dyed and they decided on the texture they wanted to use and they used paint for this.
Enjoy looking at the photos of the process:

Visitor from Watercare - 2/8/18

Room 4 - Visitor from Watercare - 2/8/18
Sally from Watercare came to see us today.
She told us that we have lots of water inside our brain - 3/4 of our brain has water.  We talked about water being very important for:
*having a bath
*for our plants to grow
*for fish to swim in
*to clean our teeth
*to clean our dishes
*to clean our clothes in the washing machine
*to use the toilet
We have fresh water and it goes dark after we have used it and this is wastewater or sewage.  The dirty water goes into the sewage pipe and the pipes join with everyone elses pipes by their houses.  Manhole covers the sewage pipes and the pipes take it to the Wastewater Treatment Plant.  This water goes into a round reactor clarifier which is 8 metres deep.  The good germs eat the bad germs and when the water is clean it goes back into the sea.
Ouside there are drains.  Rainwater goes into the drains to stop flooding.  Under the drains are pipes to take the water away out to sea.  It is important that we don't let rubbish go into the drains as it will go into the sea.
We went outside and in groups we made rivers with boards, rocks, plastic sheets and water.  We also had a water competition to see how many rivers we could make.
We did some experiments and mixed some ingredients with water to see what would happen.
We mixed engine oil in the water and then we gave it a shake, it went brown.
Cooking oil and water - the cooking oil stayed at the top
Paint and water - the paint went in as spots and then it turned the colour of the paint when we gave it a shake
Food and water - it all went together
Dishwashing liquid - bubbles appeared when we gave it a shake
It is important to remember that what we put down drains goes into the sea and if the fish don't like it they will die.
Enjoy looking at the photos:

 

Technology with Mr Rankin - 27 July 2018

Technology with Mr Rankin - 27 July 2018
Today the children worked with Mr Rankin and the parent helpers.  They made dominoes.  First they had to cut out the blocks and then sand them smooth.  After that they dyed the top of the block then they made holes for the numbers.
It was wonderful to see them working together and supporting each other.
They made 54 domino blocks and they were very proud of their work.
Well done Room 4.

Visitor from Watercare - 26 July 2018

Room 4 - Visitor from Watercare - 26 July 2018
Sally from Watercare came to talk to Room 4.
She talked about water coming from the rain.  She used a jug to warm the water and we could see steam going up.  This is like the sun heating up the water and it turns into a gas called steam or water vapour.  This is called evaporation.
The water goes cold and it turns into water to make clouds.  This is called condensation.  
The tiny drops get blown around and they bump together.  She said that is takes two million bumps to make a raindrop.  When they get big and heavy the rain starts.  This is called precipitation.
The water falls down to the sea and this is called collection.
Sally told us that there is enough water in our rivers to fill 40,000 swimming pools.
She told us that the water moves into pipes and it goes to the water filter station to be cleaned.  They add something to the water to clean it.  It takes a whole school day to clean water.  They clean 350 million litres of water each day.

We did an experiment to try to see how we could clean the water.  We had two containers and put them together.  The top one had a hole in the bottom.  We put a filter with bark in the top container and then dirty water inside.  We predicted what would happen to the water.  The bottom container showed dirty water.
Then we put cottonballs inside the top container with the dirty water and it was still brown but not so dirty.
Then we put sand inside the top container with the dirty water and it was brown but not so dirty.
Then we put paper that was ripped up inside the top container and it came out lighter brown.
We worked in two teams to add filters to our containers, we used more than one filter to see what happened.  We left them overnight.
What a great afternoon we had.