Year 1 Outing To The Science Centre

 

A visit to the Cape Town Science Center is a highlight for many students. On Tuesday, 7 June the Year 1 students enjoyed the morning at the center.

The students were fascinated to see the camera obscura where they saw a 360 view of cape town while sitting inside a dark room. They then enjoyed a lesson about shapes and had to complete a challenging shape sudoku. Working together to build a wall on the construction site was great fun; however when it came time to tidy up the students were not as enthusiastic.

The interactive exhibits allow the students to see how science works in the world around us. Finally, we had the Wizz, Pop, Bang Show, with lots of exciting chemical reactions making fire and sounds and the genie coming out the bottle had everyone enthralled.

The bus ride back to school was quiet and some even fell asleep after a very busy morning.

Here is what some of the students had to say about the Outing:

My favourite part is the … bottle rocket and the lighting box! (Ozioma)

I liked the food table and I liked the bottle rocket. (Leah Koopman)

I saw coloured fire and I saw the camera obscura. (Nathaniel)

I liked building a wall and mommy came with me. (Leah Karstel)

I liked the Lego site and I liked the speaking tubes. (Uche)

 

Ann Cordner

Year 1 Teacher and Key Stage 1 Coordinator