Investigating magnets

In Science this week we have been investigating the properties of materials. Miss Smith introduced us to magnets and we were very excited to explore the classroom to see which materials the magnets would be attracted to. We learnt that if a magnet is attracted to a material then we say the material is magnetic. 

The magnets were attracted to the dolly tub...

and the blade of the scissors...

and the old-fashioned shoes...

and the cupboard door handles.

We found out that the magnets were only attracted to the material metal.

In our next science lesson we are going to investigate if all metals are magnetic! 

Measuring

This week we have been learning all about length. We started comparing items to find the longest and the shortest from two and three objects.

We then looked at using different units to measure things with. We did lots of measuring using paper clips, counters, pencils and pens to see how long things were.

Miss Smith asked us a tricky question: Who is the tallest person in the class?

After lots of discussion we decided to measure everyone. We drew around our bodies (we thought this was very funny!) and then measured how tall we were in lollipop sticks. We thought about using counters but decided it was would take too long and that we might loose count after a while.

After we measured ourselves we ordered the number of lollipop sticks from smallest to largest. The shortest person was 9 lollipop sticks tall and the tallest person was 11 lollipop sticks tall. Can you remember who these children were? 

 

Here is a picture of one of our outlines being measured.

When we learn about measuring later in the year will we be learning about centimetres and metres.