Maths – We have moved on to 2-D shapes. The girls have been studying some new language and developing patterns. Our 2-D shape and space dictionary is very useful for these lessons. We have learned about dominoes, trominoes, tetrominoes, pentominoes, and hexominoes. Ask the girls to see if they can remember!
Art – Our Art construction projects are starting to take shape. We started with a roll of wire and after some hard work created a reindeer, a Christmas tree, a gingerbread house, a snowman and a robin. The papier machee stage is complete. Next week, we will start to paint and decorate them. See photos below.
Science – Here is the experiment from last week on how to make ice-cream, demonstrating the change of state, from liquid to solid and solid to liquid.
Equipment
Small zip lock bag
Large zip lock bag
A cup of milk
A cup of cream
Half a cup of sugar
A few drops of vanilla
Lots of ice cubes
A cup of salt
Method
1) Pour the milk and cream into the small zip lock bag, as well as the sugar and vanilla, and close it.
2) Add lots of ice cubes to the large zip lock bag. Following this, place the small zip lock bag inside the large one.
3) Pour the salt on the ice in the large bag and seal it.
4) Shake the bags around for 10 minutes.
5) After this place the bags in the freezer for an hour or so to finish the experiment off.
Predictions
I wasn’t sure what was going to happen, I presumed it would stay liquid.
Results
The formula turned thicker and semi solid after 10 minutes. It turned solid in the freezer to make ice-cream.
Why did this happen?
The salt made the temperature of ice lower and it got really cold. This caused the ice-cream liquid mixture to start to solidify. By placing it in the freezer, it turned fully solid.
This experiment showed the change of states of matter: milk/cream mixture (liquid) to ice-cream (solid); ice cubes (solid) to water (liquid).
By Leah and all of 6th class
