Ms. McLoughlin's class, 2nd Class, Room 9: April 2013

Tuesday, 30 April 2013

2D and 3D shapes that roll or slide

We had lots of fun with shapes today.

We had to name squares, rectangles, circles, triangles and hexagons and we had to find out which shapes roll, which shapes slide, and which do both.

Next we tried with our 3D shapes: cube, cuboid, cylinder, sphere, triangular prism, hexagonal prism, cone, triangular pyramid and square pyramid.

We discovered that all the shapes which rolled had circles in them.

Shapes with corners slide very well but don't roll!

Fun with sounds

We are learning all about sounds and hearing.

Today we made an elastic guitar and we noticed that the bigger the elastic is the lower the note it makes.

The opposite is true too. The smaller the elastic is the higher the sound it makes.

Teacher had a tuning fork.

She showed us how it makes a note and we all took turns listening the the note it makes.

Next she showed us what happens when you put the vibrating tuning fork in water. It makes a huge splash. We found this hard to do, but once you get good at it, it is really spectacular.

Teacher also showed us how a ping pong ball will bounce when you put a vibrating tuning fork against it.

We were able to get rice to vibrate and jump just by putting the vibrating tuning fork against the rice cup.

Finally we listened to what spoons sound like when you tap them against a table and hold their string outside your ear. We could hear all sorts of different bells! Again, the larger the spoon the lower the bell's note and the smaller the spoon the higher pitched the sound of the bell.

Monday, 29 April 2013

Ways to travel data

Look at our favourite ways to travel!

Food pyramid game and insect game

We played two great games in PE

We played a food pyramid game where we each had to choose a card, then find a space on the food pyramid to sit on. We really know where each food belongs on the food pyramid.

We also played a three legged game, which became an insect game when two pairs came together and tried to move with all 6 legs. This game was a lot of fun!