Wicked world!

The children have loved learning about volcanoes, earthquakes and tornadoes!

Here are some examples of the work they have been doing.

 How fossils are formed.


       Layers of the Earth.

Learning about different types of mountain. Great presentation too!

 

Fantastic, clearly drawn diagrams of what is under our feet!

 

How volcanoes are formed. It was quite tricky to use all the correct vocabulary.

Sorting natural rocks into their 3 groups.

 We added to our class map - the red triangles show the location of volcanoes we found out about when researching. You can't see in the picture but each volcano has a label to tell you its name and whether or not is it exsinct, dormant or active. 

The long red lines show the 'ring of fire'. This is the most active place for volcanoes and earthquakes.
 

Natural dyes!

We have had an amazing week in Year 3 following and writing fantastic instructions.

We read a book where the main character discovered that blackberries dyed his hands purple. This got us thinking about what other plants do the same.

 Using the internet we researched and make notes about different fruits and vegetables we could use to naturally dye materials different colours. Miss Walton then went shopping!








Have a look at the pictures below which show the steps we took to make our own dyes. The results were amazing! We predicted before we started what colours each vegetable would give us. None of us guessed that brown onion skins would give us a vivid orange colour!

We had to chop the beetroot and red cabbage. We had to peel off the brown onion skins. Then we had to carefully place the tea bags and turmeric into the water.

The mixtures had to be heated until the liquid boiled. Whilst they were heating, we tied up our material using elastic bands. We checked each others to make sure they were tied securely.

 

After leaving the mixtures over night, the next step was to sieve out the chunky pieces. We only needed to keep the liquid.

Our material in the dye - we left it for 15 minutes.

 

Then we hung them out to dry in the sunshine. When they were dry, we took off the elastic bands to discovered what patterns we had created.

 

These are just a few of the amazing results!