Sound Insulation
Objectives: Appreciate the importance of hearing
Explore how sound travels through materials
Identify materials that muffle sounds
Group materials according to their properties (ability to muffle sounds)
Skills: Fair testing, Estimating, Measuring, Investigating, Analysing
In this experiment, the children demonstrated the varying degrees of noise insulation by filling the polystyrene cup with the same quantity of different materials (fair test using cotton, crepe paper, bubble wrap, playdough, tin foil, tissue). While using the same sound source, the child with the beaker changed the contents of the cup. The sound source moved away from the child with the cup until he indicated he could no longer hear it. They then measured the distance at which the sound no longer transmitted to discover the playdough absorbed the most sound and the cottonwool and crepe paper absorbed the least. 
For art, the Junior Room had great fun designing a new dress and hat for Winnie the Witch. Winnie is usually very quiet in Threen N.S but she may sometimes make a surprise visit at Halloween. She asked that we use any fabric and fibre we may have to design a new dress that she could go to the disco on Friday night in Castlerea. So now Winnie will have a great range of clothes to choose from…BUT which one will she choose to wear?
An isosceles triangle!
A semicircle!
A rhombus
An oval!
We made vegetable soup today! We used our very own potatoes, onions and carrots; dug up by the children earlier in the week. With adult supervision, they washed, peeled and chopped up the vegetables. They added 2 stock cubes and boiled them for approximately 15 minutes. They then used the liquidiser to blend the vegetables until smooth! It went down a treat!
Some of our “How to Make Soup” procedures
Working in pairs!
Lidl Brochure Maths Trail
Lending a hand! ✋
“Drawing with numbers”
Maths eyes!
Mathematically creative
Time to think outside the box
Deal or no deal
Puzzling
Beggar my Neighbour card game
Dice games!