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!

 

 

Enterprise week - Designing

Year 3 have started designing their products to sell at our Enterprise market on Friday. 

We have spent some of our £10 start up loan on resources and materials and are ready to make.

Trip to the Crown Hotel!

WOW! What an amazing morning Year 3 had

We all walked to the Crown Hotel in town to learn about their business as part of our Enterprise week. 

 When we arrived we were treated to juice and biscuits - the adults were treated too! We saw how the business has been able to continue operating whilst the building work is being done by setting up Sealy@The Pop-up Crown.

Tim, the Construction site manager, came to meet us and gave us a present...our very own high vis jackets! We had to put them on to make sure we were safe on site. He explained why we had to make sure we signed in and out of the building site and told us about some of the things we were going to be seeing. 

We learnt how the workers keep safe when they have to remove asbestos from a site - we learnt that asbestos is a really harmful mineral which used to be used in buildings. They wore special protective clothing and masks to make sure they were safe. We watched them working on the CCTV camera! 

 It was exciting to see parts of the building which we wouldn't normally be allowed into. 

 We followed Tim into the rooms which were safe to look around and he pointed out all the wires and pipe work that has to go in before the ceilings and floors. 

 After looking around downstairs, we went upstairs to see what they were working on. None of the rooms have doors and some don't have walls yet! We got to have a sneaky peek at how the different workers are constructing the new bedrooms and bathrooms. 

 Tim explained that each room has a plan on the wall. This is so everyone knows where things should be. They have to take and use careful measurements.

There will be a bathroom above this ceiling when it is finished.

We took the safe way down back to where we started! 

 It was so interesting to see. We saw lots of things that we wouldn't usually get the chance to see. Thank you so much everyone at the Crown Hotel and to Tim and the construction company for making it safe for us to visit. 

On the way home we spotted lots more businesses too!

Oh, and the best bit is... we have been invited back to see the progress in April. We can not wait! 

Mindset

We have been learning about how to be better learners. We worked in groups to think about what we could say to ourselves to ensure that we are always being the best that we can be!

So instead of saying 'I just can't do this' we thought about thinking things like:

 - I'm going to think of a different way of tackling this problem

-  I can do it!

- I'm going to ask my friend/teacher to help