Who would like to be an Electrician?

Here is the circuit ready to go. Mr Muir has set the main parts up for us already. Can you see the switch, lamp fitting, battery fitting and the wires?

We are all really excited to be making a circuit. We are learning to put the wires in the correct place, under a screw, under a metal plate. We have to trace the line of the circuit with our finger to figure out if the circuit is complete. If it is not the bulb will not light up when we turn the switch on.

Do you think you could try bread making at home? Compare it to the bread you buy from a shop.

Andreas is very keen to watch the reaction! It's Food Science!

Accurate measuring Max!

Robert is beginning to knead the dough.

Valentina cuts the dough into pieces ready for each person to roll into a ball.

Each ball is rolled in melted butter and placed in the tray ready to bake.

Everyone is quietly eating!

Proud bakers today Jack and Quinn!

Diamon is a super star at drying up!

Warm and steamy - we blow on our baking and break it open - yum!

We all made bread rolls today with Mrs T and Miss K's help. A big production line with 28 rolls!Everyone

Lots of fun!

A great snack.

Everyone had turns to do different things and watched and waited patiently.

Measuring out capacity and volume with the correct cooking equipment!

Getting sticky sometimes!

Waiting for more yeast and sugar to react - quite a production line for 28 rolls!

Tinker Time too

Makey Makey creativity and innovation in R20 for Tinker Time this week!

Today we began to learn how to create an electrical circuit using crocodile clips and materials such as tinfoil and playdoh - as well as ourselves!

We connected our circuit using a Makey Makey board (sort of a digital circuit board) to a laptop. We opened up Scratch to write some lines of simple code including sounds. When the wires were connected to different parts of the board like up arrow or down arrow and the Earth part of the circuit the sound programmed to activate at that command was played by the computer.

Robert taught the group his Scratch skills and Karol, Quinn and Lucas were able to create the beginnings of their Scratch programme.

Mrs T explained the idea of the circuit and then taught Valentina and Rose how to create a circuit to play on her laptop.

Teach the Teacher

Teach the Teacher and Room 20 - what will we be learning on Fridays?

The Seniors have Friyays but we have Teach the Teacher! Every week 2 or 3 children will present/ demonstrate/ teach the rest of Room 20 and Mrs T about something. It could be an experiment, a hobby, a sport, cooking, magic, anything that you have a passion or special interest in.

Erin had a wonderful slide presentation on Google docs to explain exactly how to make Frozen play dough. Erin did all her research at home and emailed it to Mrs T so she was ready to go!
Everyone who could brought cups and utensils in case we needed them. Thanks everyone!

Erin did such a great job with all the mixing of ingredients and the children all helped and mixed the dough up so that everyone had a bag of dough to take home!

Next Valentina took the floor with her capable assistant Ruby. Valentina demonstrated her Experiment of Reactions using milk, food colouring, and vinegar.

Valentina was a great speaker and demonstrated carefully and clearly so that we all understood her experiment really well.

The colours mixed together and created new colours then when the vinegar reacted and turned into foam there were lots of oohs and aahs!