Riverlands Room 1 2017: Science & Safety Room 1

Playing with Science

Written by Room 1

Our Science Hot-Spot was creating weather in a bottle. Mrs McLaughlan showed us "Hurricane in a bottle".

We had to explain what was happening in the bottle. It was amazing. It did not work the first time. We tried it again.

Some of us had bottles and then we made our own. It was hard getting the paint and glitter in the bottle. We all had a go.

We made it spin like a hurricane. When it was finished it was awesome.

These were some of our queries.

"Why is it spinning?" "How does it happen?" "Why is the glitter moving like that?" "What would happen if you added stones like a hurricane picks up?" "Why does the glitter float?"

We all get to explore and have a go

The motion of the bottle is important

We had someone take photos on the I.Pad

We were able to work together as a team

We listened to everyones queries and shared what we thought

You can make these at home

St Johns 2016

This is what an ambulance officer looks like

This week we had St Johns first aide. We meet Kathryn and she explained to us what happens in an ambulance. We got to see some special equipment that they can use if we end up in an ambulance.
We got to play with bandages, tried on some uniforms, talked about staying safe and learnt about what happens when an ambulance turns up to help someone.
We also talked about what to do if we get lost and who to trust.
This is a great introduction to our new Inquiry "Staying Safe".

Look at what happened!