Daily Archives: January 10, 2014
Potato Clock! share
Last month we did an experiment on making a clock from potato batteries.
These are the things we needed:
2 Copper and Zinc plates , connecting wire, digital clock with wires , transparent tape and 2 potatoes.
This is how we did it:
We assembled a ‘connection pair’ by connecting the pair of Copper and Zinc plates through the hole on the plate. Gently we twisted the wire to secure it to the plate. We covered and secured the connection with the adhesive tape.
Next we connected the black wire from the LCD clock to one of the Zinc plates. Then we connected the red wire from the LCD clock to a piece of Copper plate. Now all the components were connected. We inserted the Copper and Zinc plates into the potatoes , taking care that the metal plates didn’t touch each other.
SETTING THE CLOCK
When all the metal plates were first inserted into the potatoes , the LED screen showed a static display of “12:00“.We pressed A [top button] once and the clock started working. We saw the 2 dots in the middle flashing .We pressed B [bottom button] twice to obtain the set month mode , we pressed A to adjust the right month. We pressed B to confirm and the display switched to the day mode . We pressed A to adjust to the right day. We pressed B to confirm and switched to set hour mode. We pressed A to adjust to the right hour. We pressed B to confirm and switched to set minute mode . We pressed A to adjust to the right minute and pressed B to confirm this. After the minute was confirmed , we pressed A once . The set time was displayed.
Our potato battery lasted for a day or so but then the clock began to slow down. The next time we do this experiment we will try other foods like lemons or oranges.
By Simon O` Mahony and Peter O ` Shea 🙂
Christmas is coming! share
We really enjoyed preparing for Christmas.
Ms. Coleman has an advent calender and we counted down the days!
We made Christmas cards and hand print angel art.
We sang Christmas songs on the stage for the other classes.
Reading: Elmer share
This week we have been reading the big book ‘Elmer and the Wind’ by David McKee. We loved the colours of our favourite elephant so much that we decided to make our own Elmers. Look at our fantastic work!
Halloween is here! share
Do you recognise anyone in this photograph?
Here we are dressed up in costumes to mark Halloween!
We played traditional games like bobbing for apples.
Ms. Coleman shared a barmbrack with us. There were lots of different things in the bairín breac and everyone got something their slice – a pea, a cloth, a stick, a coin or a ring. There was only one ring and Brooke got it!
Winter share
The children are enjoying the season of Winter! We enjoyed the festivities leading up to Christmas, one of the highlights being the Christmas concert.
The children are now learning about their world in Winter. They observed the trees in the yard, found puddles and noticed how wet and slippery the ground is.
The children also noticed how cold it is outside even though the sun is bright in the sky! They stayed nice and cosy in their warm coats!!
The children are putting their knowledge of Winter to good use during art making Winter Trees!
The children looked at images of Winter and identified the Winter features with their partner!
Christmas Concert share
For our Christmas Concert we all wore Santa Hats! We sang our songs Gloria and Jingle Bells really well! It was great fun being on stage!
