Year 3 had lots of fun making volcanoes!
Shocked, excited, amused we watched as the mentos were dropped into the volcano and red, fizzy lava exploded on our teachers.
In the comments can you write step by step instructions to tell us how we made the volcano?
This week Year 3 have been creating their own short stories based on ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter. With sentences including:
‘Into the centre of the Grotto,with spitting, spreading, boiling fire, the Lava Lord entered on deadly wings.’
‘Astonished, shocked, terrified, she saw the Fire Dragons eat molten rock.’
‘The Grotto was dark like an onyx, black gorilla.’
We are looking forward to reading your completed stories!
When reading the story ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ we saw the White Elephant was being used as a walking advertisement with people paying to graffiti all over him!
After designing our own firework, giving it an alliterative name and describing how it erupts we decided to create an advertisement ourselves.
Take a look at some of our colourful work!
What name would you give to a firework? Tell us in the comments
Today we learnt about labelling parts of volcanoes and their functions .
Do you know what a throat is and what it does in a volcano?
We have been busy this week learning about the 3 different rock types found on Earth.
To help us learn the processes of how these rocks are made we used milk, white and dark chocolate to make our very own!
We placed layers of the different grated chocolate in a food bag and applied pressure to make sedimentary rock, luckily it didn’t take millions of year as it does in nature!
Then we used our warm hands and radiator to replicate the inside of the volcano to turn our sedimentary rock into igneous rock.
Finally we turned our rocks to metamorphic by changing the heat and pressure.
They tasted delicious!
Comment your answers below 🙂
We have worked really hard to create haiku poems!
A haiku poem is made up of 3 lines and follows the syllable pattern 5, 7, 5. They are written about nature and animals and we used our research about Great Horned Owls to write ours.
Each class made their own poet tree to display their poems. Can you spot yours?
Using the iPad app ‘FaceFusion’ all the year 3 children have been able to fuse their own face with that of a predatory animal for the front covers of their topic books.
What animal would you like to morph with?
We have kick started our first imaginative learning project Predator by having some peculiar visitors in Year 3.
Miss Morris brought in her reptiles for the children to see, some children were even brave enough to touch or hold the animals.
We have been learning about their diets and habitats.
Do you know any fun facts about these wonderful creatures? If so comment below.
Year 3 have had a great start to the new term by doing a book study on “Esio Trot” by Roald Dahl.
Esio trot means tortoise in tortoise language! They say everything backwards.
We really enjoyed making tortoises and giving them a name in tortoise language.
Can you work out what these tortoise names are in English? Comment below if you can work them out. Good luck.
Eisor
Yllehs
Ybreh
Eifla