OPTIONAL SHOPPING LIST for FRIDAY:
Empty 1.5l or 2l plastic bottle (eg Coke, Fanta, Water) with lid

Plastic straws (2 or 3)

This reading comprehension is about The Titanic.

Click below to see the text and the questions. Please answer in your exercise book. You can also click below to hear Mr Smyton read the text to you. There are additional challenge questions in red.

We have learned about creatures that live in the different layers of the ocean and about ships that float on the ocean. Today we are going to explore something very interesting about water - surface tension.

Watch the video below to learn about surface tension - a kind of invisible skin on the water

Surface tension is created as the molecules of water at the surface pull tightly together.

Watch the videos below for some cool ways to play with and investigate surface tension and then have a go at some of the experiments yourself...

To repeat any of the experiments below you may need:

• plate
• water
• pepper
• paper clip
• milk
• food colouring
• washing up liquid
• cotton bud or twisted paper towel (into a point)

LET'S INVESTIGATE - MAKE A POWERED BOAT

You will need:

• card (e.g. old food box)
• scissors
• baking tray or bowl of cool clean water
• washing up liquid

What to do:

1. Cut out some simple boat shapes from card
2. Cut a slot into the back and fold up

3. Place a blob of washing up liquid on the bottom of your boat at the end of the slot

4. Place your boat gently, soap side down, on the surface of the water at one end of your tray and watch.....

Why does this work?

The soap breaks the surface tension and this causes the boat to slide forward across the surface.

USE SURFACE TENSION TO WIN A BET
You will need:

• two glasses filled a little over half way with cold water
• something smooth that floats e.g. a pop bottle lid, a cork, a ping pong ball

What to do:

Challenge someone to float the object in the middle of one of the glasses without it moving over and touching the side of the glass (they won't be able to do it - try it yourself!)

How to win the bet:

Surface tension is your friend. Use the second glass to fill the first glass right to the very very top so that it is just about to overflow (if you look at it from the side the water will look like it is bulging up with a curved surface - surface tension). Now gently place the object in the centre of the full glass - the surface tension will hold it still!!! You win the challenge 

LEARN TO MOONWALK

Learn to use your body 

POP SEE KO

Have a dance 

YOGA

and relax....

Listening to someone read a story is a great way to relax and unwind.
We are lucky that, at the moment, we have some fantastic stories being read by famous people and excellent story-tellers that are wonderful to enjoy.

Choose a story from below to listen to. Choose somewhere to relax and enjoy it.

David Walliams is sharing his stories and they are funny...

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