Tenacious 10

Have a look for facts about your favourite dinosaur. An outstanding resource.

Our reading group read a book about crystals and decided to make our own. We got some epsom salts and stirred it in hot water until it dissolved then we put a little bit in a jar lid and a little bit in a jar with a piece of string hanging down. We left them for a few days and fed them with the left over epsom salt and water. After a few days crystals started to form on the lids and string.

The second thing our group tried was to do with evaporation! We made puddles and drew around them then checked on them every ten minutes. Not a lot happened to start with but after a while we could definitely see the water was disappearing. We saw the smaller puddle evaporated faster that the big one and came to the conclusion that the sunnier the day the faster the puddles would disappear.

Today our reading group read a journal story called making puddles. We decided to do two experiments to see whether we could understand how rain happens.
The first expt we did was with a jar and water. We put boiling water into the jar and covered it with glad wrap. We noticed the steam rising which made small droplets on the lid. They joined together and made large drops which eventually fell back down to the water.

Our reading group read about stilt walking today and then we tried to use our school set in the corridor! We found out that it helps to have someone support you and that we will need loads of practice to be as good as the professional stilt walkers in the story. It was great fun!!!!!

We had a kite demonstration at school to end our unit on kites. The professional kite person managed to put many character kites on one line.

On Friday we made some Sprinkle and Chocolate sandwiches. We had to work in a groups and make sure we followed the procedures, instructions to do it correctly. Here ia a movie about what we did. Hope you enjoy it!

Looking for a poem for our class challenge? This site has some poems you can choose from.
(apologies for the picture something happened in the download