A week of learning.

This week’s blog post comes to you courtesy of Mahin, Da Hee & Helen.

Welcome to our Grade 5 Blog

In Grade 5 we have started a new unit. Our new unit is about Science. We have done a challenge, the challenge is to make slime. We were divided into groups to make slime with household ingredients.

These are some Photos of us making slime:

 

 

Some of us were able to make slime easily. But for the people who didn’t know how to make slime, it was a big challenge for them. Even though some of us that didn’t know how to make it we still had lots of fun making it.

All of our slime was made out of flour. Some of the slime was made out of flour & water, flour & conditioning & lotion, flour & baking soda & lotion etc., ( all sort of stuff that is made of flour mixed with household ingredients ).

Math

We’ve been working on many kinds of math and our learning intention was, How can we use the base ten system to solve problems with decimal numbers?

Some people were able to solve these questions confidently. But some questions were hard for some people and easy for others. The questions were pretty challenging.

Science Experiments

Our home learning last week was to bring a Science Experiment to school. Baking Soda + Vinegar, Coke + Mentos, Coke + Salt, Water + Pepper then dip your finger in detergent then place your finger in the middle of the plate, tornado in 2 bottles, tornado in a bottle, Milk + Food coloring then place detergent in the middle,

Here are some of our Experiments ( Photos ) :

                    

The first photo of a scientific principle is Chemical Reaction. The science experiment was Baking soda + Vinegar. The Vinegar reacted to the Baking soda.

The second photo scientific principle was Nuclear Reaction. The science experiment was Coke + Mentos.

The Coke reacted to the Mentos.

The third photo of a scientific principle is gravity. So if you stand tight to the wall with your left arm, lift your right leg up but if you stand tight to the wall with your right arm lift your left leg up. You will fall down because when you stand on one leg your center of gravity shifts towards another leg and your body needs to compensate by moving in the opposite direction but in this case the wall is in the way. ( Make sure you stand straight )

Spotlight

During this week we’ve had spotlight on the arts and spotlight on music. We have had lots of fun. Some students’ parents came for this spotlight and some students brought their nannies or drivers for their spotlight. We had to show the posters we made to our parents and other adults.

Here are some photos of our spotlight:

We were also coming up with Scientific Words. Here are some of the words.

We were writing scientific words. We came up with Ideas like : Chemistry , Carbon, Psychologist Environment , Water , Oxygen , Gravity , Mass , Disaster , Sodium , Gas , Biology , Liquid , Uranium , Electricity , Explosion and More...