Stalactitse and Stalagmites

Word Bank

icicle
water
cave
underground
dissolve
cold
frozen
snow
long drip
Winter

What you need:

two glass jars
two fishing sinkers
epsom salts
string
a small plate.

What to do:

Fill the glass jars with hot water from the tap and stir in a table spoon of epsom salt. Wet a piece of 18 inch long string, tie a sinker to either end and hang it in the water. Leave it in a warm place for a week, then come back daily and check it out, without touching it!

Try looking though a magnifying glass at your crystals!

Volcanoes

Facts:

1. Did you know that volcanoes are caused by the tectonic plates breaking apart from underground
to let the magma through.
2. It is impossible to tell when volcanoes are about to erupt.
3. When the volcano erupts the magma changes temperature and turns into lava.
4. After it erupts the lava flows down and bit by bit it turns into solid rock.

Some popular volcanoes are:

Mt St Helens
Krakatoa
Dimand Head
Kilauea

Rainbows

Rainbows are made from water and sun light.

Rarely you might see a rainbow that has red on the inside and violet on the outside

Where you can find a rainbow:
On a fish tank
At the beach
Somewhere it's raining

Coloures of the rainbow:
red
orange
yellow
green
blue
indigo
violet

Somewhere over the rainbow

Ingredients:

Packet of jelly
Measuring Jug
Boiling Water

Method:

1. Empty jelly crystals into a measuring cup.
2. Add boiling water to make a total of 500ml.
3. Stir it until the jelly crystals are completely dissolved.
4. Pour into a bowl and refrigerate until it's set.
5. Store in a cool dry place.
6. Refrigerate under 4 degrees Celsius

The lyrics to the Aeroplane Jelly song:

I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me.
I like it for dinner, I like it for tea,
A little each day is a good recipe!
The quality's high, as the name will imply,
It's made from pure fruit - one more good reason why
I like Aeroplane Jelly, Aeroplane Jelly for me!

Bread Making

Word Bank:
bread
yeast
bread maker
flour
water
loaf
crust
ingredients
dough
knead

Ingredients:

flour
water
yeast

Method:

Put the yeast into the pot, then put in some flour followed by water. It should cook for 2 or 3 hours. When it stops making noise let it sit because it is rising. Soon it will be quite big and ready to eat.
Enjoy your bread.

Play Dough Party!

Ingredients:

½ a cup of salt
1 cup of plain flour
2 tablespoons cream of tartar
1 cup of water
1 tablespoon of oil
food colouring

Method:

Mix all the ingredients together in a medium sized bowl.
Stir it while over heat until the dough is hard.
Allow it to cool, put some plastic on it, put in it a plastic bag or put it in a container.

Trees

Today we looked at the types of trees in Dodgers Stadium. We saw Oak Trees, Plane Trees and Elm Trees.

Plane Trees

Plane Trees have a smooth trunk and big leaves. The trunk is a white with patches of other colours. It's Latin name is Platinus. A Plane Tree is a large tree.

Oak Trees

Oak Trees have big chunks of bark and a darker trunk than the Plane Tree. Its Latin name is Queris

Elm Trees

The Elm Trees have little chunks of bark not like Oak Trees. Its Latin name is Ulmus.
It has small long leaves that come in three. Elm Trees have very dark green leaves on one side and light on the other side

Report on a Birds Nest - still working on it

Today Mr Benton came into our class with a birds nest, he found it where we found our pet rocks (in the car park). We put the birds nest on the science table. Then we started talked about how that clever bird is because it had put all the mud and sticks and grass on the nest all around it.
The bid that had the nest was a Mynah bird.



I think that it would be really hard for a little Mynah bird to make a nest like that. It's just really good!

Alien Word Bank

slime
eyes
alien
green
U.F.O.
Roswell
space
planet
space ship
unusual
asteroid
meteorite
astronaut
discover
Mars
martians
moon
galaxy
abduction
Stealth Bomber
weather balloon
Milky Way
invasion
antennae

Test Tube Alien

Annie opened the little lid thing.
We poured the water into the little half a cup thing.
Then we put in the power, then we stired it.
John poured in the water it started bubbling.
Then he poured in more and more then it stoped.
It looked all foggy, and then it started to hatch!
It is orange and green.
When it flashes red it means it is happy, when it is green it means it is drowning, when it is orange it means it is hungry.
150 ml to add to food mixture.

My Pet Rock - The Metamorphic Rock

The metamorphic rock gives us information about the temperatures and pressures that occur at great depths within the Earth's crust.

My Pet Rock - The Sedimentary Rock

Clastic sedimentary rocks, such as breccia or sandstone, were were formed
from rocks that have been broken down into small pieces by exposure, and then
have been transported and deposited somewhere else.

My Pet Rock - My Haiku

Rock with A.D.D,
With a leash around its head,
Could bite you some day

My Pet Rock - Questions To Answer

- does the rock have two or more colours? It has 3 colours
- is the rock sandy? No
- does it make marks on paper? Yes
- does the rock float in water? No
- does the rock have layers? No
- is the rock heavy? a little bit
- is the rock smooth or rough? Rough
- does your rock have a fossil in it? No
- can you name a rock that will float? Yes, the Igneous rock

My Pet Rock - The Igneous Rock

The Igneous rock is also called the Pumice rock and it can float.

My Pet Rock - A Fossil Of A Fish

Here is a fossil of a fish.

My Pet Rock - The Wordbank

Rock
Igneous
Molten
Magma
Hard
Sedimentary
Metamorphic
Clastic
Chemical
Organic
Crystalline
Marble
Granite
Sandstone
Layers
Smooth
Lava
Geolisgist
Basalt
Fossil
Limestone

My Pet Rock - Some Information On My Rock

My pet rocks name is Wiggles.

He has yellow, grey and brown spots. He has googly eyes and a leash around his head, he is kind of small but not tiny.

Slime make my lime

You can make your own cornflour slime to learn about fluids and viscosity. To do this experiment you will need: cornflour food colouring a small bowl water

What to do:

Pour some cornflour into a bowl.
Stir in small bits of water until the cornflour has become a very thick paste.
To make the slime the colour that you want it to be, stir really hard about five drops of food colouring into the mixture.
Stir your slime REALLY slowly.
This shouldn't be hard to do.
Stir your slime REALLY fast.
This should be almost impossible.
Now punch your slime REALLY hard and fast.
It should feel like you're punching a solid.
What's happening: Anything that flows is called a fluid. It means that both gases and liquids are fluids. Fluids like water which flow easily are said to have low viscosity, whereas fluids like cold honey which do not flow so easily are said to have a high viscosity.Cornflour slime is a special type of fluid that doesn't follow the usual rules of fluid behaviour. When something hard is on the slim to slime, its viscosity increases and the cornflour slime becomes thicker.

Low viscosity
Golden syrup
Honey
Lime Jam
Tomato sauce
Yoghurt

High viscosity
Coke
Tea
Water
Milk
Juice

From low viscosity to low viscosity
Chocolate
Butter
Ice cream
Ice block

To see more science experiments go to myscienceprogram.blogspot.com

Invisible ink

My list of invisible
Cola drink (diluted)
Honey (diluted)
Lemon,
Apple or orange juice
Milk
Onion juice
Soap water
Sugar solution
Vinegar

Some inks are developed by heat.
You could use a blow dryer and fan it over for thirty seconds. You could also use a mini heater and keep that going for thirty seconds. If you have a lot of candles in your house you could put the message over the top but not on the flame.
The best one that I think will work is the heater, because it has a good heat and I think it will work better than the other ones.

I predict that you will be able to see the message very clearly. I think that it will be a surprise to us all on what happens.

What happened:
First we got a bit of paper and drew five circles and painted all the liquids onto the paper. We cooked them in the oven for about two minutes and saw our results.

WARNING!
ADULTS MUST DO THE HEATING!