Simple Machines- Wheel and axle

Things that go!

Today the O'Neills classes kicked off their new topic called "Things that go!". All the kids were asked to bring in something that goes and then worked with a group to classify and figure out how all their things are made to go.
Once they had finished investigating things they then had to work as a team to design and build something that could transport a play dough blobby man safely across the hall.

Learning how to work together

 

Today for Discovery time we were practising how to work with others.
These are the things we decided we were going to be looking and listening for-
-speaking nicely to each other and using nice words
- using our manners
- using our hands for helping
-asking nicely if we want to use something someone else is already using
- thinking about the volume of our voices when we are talking to our friends

Hovercrafts

Today we made hovercrafts with our friends from room 16. We used recycled sipper bottle tops, old cd's and balloons. After we made our hovercrafts we wrote instructions about how to make them. Please read our work!