Hello there and welcome to Mr Lynch's 5th class blog!
We have been learning about the Renaissance in History over the past couple of weeks, discovering all of the amazing inventions that were first used during this time and the people who designed them! We learned about people such as Galileo Galilei and his experiment on the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The children were then challenged to design their own Leaning Towers of Pisa during a STEM lesson which was great fun, and a great example of collaborative learning!
Throughout the month the children completed their own projects based on the Renaissance at home. It looked fantastic when we put all of the projects together in our classroom!
Halloween in Mr Lynch's!
We created Halloween lanterns out of paper this week with some spooky ghosts, pumpkins and frankensteins all around the classroom!
We also carved out pumpkins in groups to get in the Halloween spirit!!
Science Week Experiments
Science week takes place from the 10th-17th of November throughout Ireland and our class participated in it by watching the Curious Minds Science show and completing some experiments such as designing CD Hovercrafts and ballon-powered cars, lava lamps, magic milk and of course volcanoes!
During Science week we also designed parachutes using tissue paper, string and tape for our minature lego figures to jump and land safely on the ground floor!
We also learned about Osmosis during science week and completed some experiments to observe how it works. We completed a walking water experiment with three glasses and compared the sizes of gummy bears after they were placed in different liquids. We also looked at the difference between hot water and cold water with skittles!
Rugby Coaching:
We are lucky to have Tiernan coming in to our school on Thursday mornings for a few weeks to teach us some rugby skills. The children are having great fun completing rugby drills and taking the skills they have learnt into matches!
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