Skip to main content

Erupting volcanoes

Our final topic of the year is based around the wonderful world of volcanoes. Over the half term holiday, we asked the children to build a volcano however they could. And wow did they deliver. We had huge volcanoes made from mod rock and tiny volcanoes made from clay. From big to small we were amazed by the effort and look of them all.

Of course, volcanoes erupt so that's what we had to do. Using either bicarbonate of soda and vinegar or Coca-Cola and mentos, we sent froth shooting out of the volcanoes and they were incredibly impressive as well. Take a look at our experiments. We were astounded and had great fun in spite of some horribly damp weather.
























Comments

  1. Mrs Foster21 June 2019 at 03:05

    The volcano models were fantastic and I am looking forward to finding out the recipe for an excellent eruption! Brilliant work, Year 3.x

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Year 3 have been learning about different types of rocks. Granular, crystallised and fossilised. We looked at the formation of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. The children were given an assortment of rocks and were asked to group the rocks according to their appearance. We then sorted the rocks correctly and the children were excited to see if their predictions were correct.
1 comment
Read more

Stone Age Stewed Fruit

Year 3 have been studying instruction texts and as part of the process we made some Stone Age stewed fruit using a selection of fruits, hazelnut and honey as an added sweetener. The process not only allowed the children to get stuck in practically but also informed their own writing of instructions following the making of the fruit stew. 
1 comment
Read more

Gymnastics 🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️

Keeping (and staying!) active is so important in everyone's lives and over the last six months, we have all taken a hit - but Year 3 returned to school, resilient in every way and have approached Gymnastics lessons with enthusiasm and perseverence. Last week we learned how to be a gymnast - walking like a gymnast and learning the names of some gymnastic postitions. The children were amazing in their Gymnast / Coach roles and by the end of the session could tuck, pike, dish, arch and front and back support well. This week, we have been looking at balancing and using our hands and feet in different ways,and using some simple equipment to build our balances Thank you to Positive PE for their amazing support in their training last year to help us make our PE teaching better.  👏
1 comment
Read more