Miss Fall's Hats

Now, that winter has come and in some of our countries it's pretty severe, it's nice to recall some Fall related memories. This season in our school a competition was organized and students aged 8 had to prepare hats so that they resembled Miss Fall's Hat. As a result we got many beautiful hats.



By Iwona Tylman, Dorota Tomczak

Fountain Experiment

In this science experiment our fifth graders made a water fountain powered by the force  of air pressure. They used two jars, a bowl, straw and plastic tube. And as you can see in the photos the fountain did work.

 by Agnieszka Drowanowska
and Anna Dołżyńska

Lego WeDo: The Goalkeeper

Today in our workshop, we used Lego WeDo to make "the goalkeeper."

Then we played penalty kicks ... and it was difficult to score a goal. 

We had a very good time.

Perimeter and Area with Legos

Students of class 5, working in small groups, have drawn and built with the use of Legos some basic shapes, as squares and rectangles, and then they have begun to combine these basic shapes together to create more complex figures.

They have started measuring the perimeter. They  have isolated before the perimeter drawing the outline of the shapes on the paper and then they have counted the units around the space of the Lego polygons built. They have also multiplied the units of one side by 4 to calculate the perimeter of lego squares and the units of the 2 different sides by 2 to find the perimeter in the rectangles.

The students have constructed different shapes within a given outline using Legos to understand that a closed figure or a space covers area and they can find it using the square units.

Student have measured the area of the Lego shapes built in different ways: counting the circles on top of the lego blocks, adding up all the square units within the space of the Lego shapes, multiplying the lenght by the width of the outlines. To measure the complex Lego shapes pupils have broken the figure up into smaller other shapes (squares and rectangles) and they have calculate the total area adding up the single areas. They were able to write multiplication sentences about the measurements found.

In this activity students could better visualize the sense of perimeter and area, share the different strategies used, reinforcing perimeter and area skills.

They have also practised perimeter and area, having a lot of fun, in the Area Dice Game taken from http://reliefteachingideas.com/area-dice-game/ .

 

 

FLL: The Robot Game

Our First Lego League and First Lego League teams are working hard to get ready for the Hydrodynamics challenge that will take place in Salamanca in February...

Irish leprechauns in our school

The children listened to the story of the leprechaun, who has hidden his pot of gold behind the rainbow. The teacher showed pictures to the children. We listened to a song about the story. Each child could make his own leprechaun and they've made a profile about him. Then they told about their leprechaun. They learned about Ireland an filled in some facts at home.
The played a story about finding the gold because Emerald had lost his pot of gold. To say Thank you to all the nice and helpful leprechauns Emerald invited them to his St. Patricks celebration party. The children made lots of decoration stuff and Emerald gave some gold out of his pot.
The children enjoyed and learned a lot about Ireland and the traditions.
I hope it's a good idea for you to celebrate St. Patricks Day on the 17th of March.
Silvia Hoffmann

Maths Club

Fourth grade students learn how to build solids that meet certain conditions. They try, analyse different solutions, draw conclusions and generalize - all this with Lego blocks during maths club activities.

by Ewa Zielińska

Fractions

Learning fractions can be sweet and funny. Fourth grade students are doing simple calculations with fractions using chocolate squares and then Lego blocks.

By Ewa Zielińska