Eggs-periments in Senior Infants!

Eggs-periments in Senior Infants!

We investigated if the egg is really strong along the dome part. We asked some questions. Where do you find dome shapes ? Arches and dome shaped buildings. In an egg, we have have many arches going over the same central point in lots of directions making it strong. We...
Senior Infants investigate sound

Senior Infants investigate sound

We made three musical shakers using plastic bottles. We put lentils, coins and sugar into individual bottles.  After shaking each we discovered that the coin shaker was the loudest and the sugar shaker was the softest sound. We decided to sing some songs and test our...
Acrobatic Clown

Acrobatic Clown

The Junior Infants learnt all about the centre of gravity. They made their own cardboard temple of a clown and they tried to balance it first on its nose. This was very difficult. Then we decided to lower its centre of gravity by attaching pegs or coins or play dough...
Science Week fun in Junior Infants

Science Week fun in Junior Infants

We are really enjoying Science Week in Junior Infants. We watched ‘This is Science Week’ live show on Monday hosted by John Sharpson ( Múinteoir John from RTÉ’s Home School Hub) It was a 45-minute live show that celebrated all things Science! We...
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