We squeezed as hard as we could, and to our surprise, not one of us could crack the raw egg! But we are kids.....so we gave the adults a go. They couldn't break the egg either. 
Someone was wondering if the egg would crack if we sat on it. We all wondered this, but didn't try it, in case someone had to spend the rest of the day with a crushed egg all over their bottom!
We first had to guess whether raisins float in water, float in lemonade, sink in water, sink in lemonade or float and sink in water or lemonade. To keep the test fair we used the same amount of water and lemonade.
This is what we discovered: Raisins sink in water, they also sink in lemonade at the start, but then the bubbles in the lemonade stick to the raisins, so the raisins float. When the floating raisins get to the top of the lemonade the bubbles burst, and the raisins sink to the bottom again, until more bubbles stick to them (like having their very own swimming arm bands)....and so it goes on and on till the fizz goes flat. 
After watching them for a while we decided we would try and see what it felt like being a raisin in lemonade. We curled up and sank, had bubbles stick on to us, floated for a while till teacher said "pop", and then we sank down again. We think the raisins must have had great fun doing this experiment!
When you spin a raw egg, then put your hand gently on it to stop it, then take your hand off the egg starts to spin again. This is like a child in a car crash with no seat belt - when the car stops suddenly, the child keeps going, maybe out the car window. With the cooked egg, when it is stopped, it stays stopped even when the hand is taken away. This is like a child with a seat belt on in the car. When the car stops suddenly, so does the child. The reason this happens is that the inside of a cooked egg is solid, while the inside of a raw egg is quite liquidy.
With the eggs still undamaged we decided to try and see what would happen to a raw egg if we leave it overnight in water. Will it change colour? melt? dissolve? What will happen if we leave it overnight in vinegar? Check this site out tomorrow to find out! No one knows the answer (well, teacher might but she's not telling!) 
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
We looked at each of the bins and tried to use our reading skills to figure what goes in each bin. We found out that we can't recycle cans or tins here but on one of the bins we could read what to do with our tins and cans (put them in our green wheelie bins at home once they are clean and dry). We can't wait to collect lots of bottles from home and take our families to the recycling bank.
Witches and Bats were most popular, skeletons were least popular (I hope the skeleton hanging in our classroom doesn't get insulted!)
In our Art work we have cut and stuck skeletons, and we have painted and stuck on faces on our pumpkins. We love Hallowe'en!
At school we are having a lot of fun learning about food "as Gaeilge". We played a great game of Biongó Bia. Bhain muid an-taitneamh as an cluiche.
When we were spinning our colour wheels last week we noticed that if you spin things fast enough your eyes might not be able to keep up and you migh see something that is not actually there! 
Teacher had pictures of lions and cages, and prisoners with cages. We cut them out, stuck them on our pencils and spun them. 
When they were spinning quickly it looked like the lions and the prisoners were behind bars. This happens because our eyes can't send messages to our brains quickly enough for our brains to realise that we are looking at two different pictures, and not just a single one.
We wondered if we could mix those colours....so we tried.
Next we tried mixing colours. These colour mixes weren't as good as if we had mixed paint, but it was an interesting investigation. It is an easy one to try at home.
We painted and cut out great witch masks this week. We hung them looking out our window. When teacher pulled the blinds we could see the really interesting shadows that those witches and our painted tree make.
We went for a walk to the little estate, Melody Court, near our school. We saw lots of weeds on the way: dandelions and dandelion clocks, doc leaves, clover. 
We picked up and flew some sycamore keys (helicopters), watched as our wide path became narrower and wider again, looked for spiders and fish in the stone sitting area, read all the road signs we could and enjoyed being out in the nice sunshine. Being outside can be a fun way to learn all about the world around us.
