Room 9 term 2 2015 Class Newsletter

Sensational Sounds - Our Observations

Sound experiments

In Term 1, we learnt about sound. we made some observations on  how is sound produced,how sound travels and reaches our ears. we drew pictures and labels to show our observations about sound.

Dancing grains - what happens when you tap the bowl with grains - what did we observe?  - we saw the grains dancing and moving - the grains VIBRATED.
We learnt a new word - Vibration

Balloon Screamer

Musical coat hangers

"I banged a metal coat hanger tied with a string. I could hear the ringing sound in my ear. It sounded like a bell ringing."

Musical wine glass  - "It sounded like an echo in a cave."

String telephone- 
"I could hear my friend talking on the other side."

Room 9 Painting Self Portraits

In Week 7, we painted our self portraits. We mixed three different colours to get a unique colour to paint faces in our self portraits. We learnt how to hold a paint brush and used strokes to paint our pictures.