This week we have been very lucky and had Mrs Barnes with us for baking. We made volcano cakes by baking cupcakes and tipping them  upside down and cutting out a piece of the cake. We then used orange and red icing to create the effect of lava flowing out of the volcano.

To celebrate our last day with Mrs Barnes as it’s been our week of baking we made ‘cake pops’ to link with the chocolate from Cadbury’s world and decorated them with red icing to give the effect of volcanoes to link to our topic. We had great fun and they tasted delicious.

Look at our amazing costumes!

On the last day of baking with Mrs Barnes instead of making biscuits we used our skills to create a 3D volcano, we used a coke bottle, tin foil, various colours of fondant and mentos.

We created two volcanoes and took them outside, we added the mentos and saw the reaction that was created.

Why does the explosion happen?

Although there are a few different theories around about how this experiment works, the most favoured reason is because of the combination of carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke and the little dimples found on Mentos candy pieces.

The thing that makes soda drinks bubbly is the carbon dioxide that is pumped in when they bottle the drink at the factory. It doesn’t get released from the liquid until you pour it into a glass and drink it, some also gets released when you open the lid. This means that there is a whole lot of carbon dioxide gas just waiting to escape the liquid in the form of bubbles.

Unfortunately our explosion didn’t beat the record of 9 metres but we still had fun.

In Science to understand the formation of rocks we put our culinary skills to the test.

To show sedimentary rock we needed to show that they are formed from deposits settling at the bottom of the seas, lakes and rivers. We showed the water bed by using blue fondant icing, coloured sprinkles to represent fossilized bones and other layers of icing and chocolate to show the layers and sediment that build up over the years.

To show metamorphic rock we needed to show that these rocks have been changed by heat and pressure. For this we used three different colours of icing, layered the different coloured icing and folded them together. Once the rocks had been made we cut them in half to see the different swirls and layers.

To show igneous rocks we needed to show that they are formed when melted rock or magma is cooled. The children mixed up mini marshmallows, broken up biscuits and chocolate drops. We did this until the chocolate had melted and then we left the mixture until it had solidified again.

The children had great fun and ate their rocks at the end of the lesson.

This half term to link with our topic ‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’ we made volcano shaped biscuits with Mrs Barnes. We made chocolate cookies first and then decorated them with fondant. This was good fun and we practiced lots of skills too including; reading, weighing, mixing, rolling and of course all important team work.

In Class 3 we have been super busy learning about 3 digit numbers. We know how to add and subtract 3 digit numbers and can place them on a number line. This week we did a physical number line and talked about where the numbers would fit into the number line. We also looked at estimating to help support us with our addition and subtraction.

For example the number 138 is closer to 100 than 200.

In Year 3 we are working hard to learn our times tables.

We use TT Rockstars regularly but also we have been getting fit by using supermovers to move and sing along to them. We are determined to know the 3 x tables off by heart very soon.

On Wednesday 27^th November Year 3 were very lucky and had the opportunity to go to Barclays Bank in Northwich.

We completed lots of different activities, to start we had to work as a team to see who could build the tallest structure with lego, Isaac, Thomas, Oliver and Alfie’s team won – well done boys!

We looked at how to stay safe on the internet and made sure we knew the correct ages to access different social media platforms.

We watched a video of children using a very old computer – it was like a box. Mrs Davies, Mrs Wood and Mrs Daley all remembered the olden days where these were the only computers that existed!

We had a tour of the offices and saw people doing their jobs and we also had the added bonus of seeing the Premier League Trophy!

This week we have been very lucky and have had Mrs Barnes for baking. We decided to go with the theme of Christmas and baked gingerbread biscuits in the shape of gingerbread men and snowmen. We made the biscuits first and when they’d cooled we decorated them with icing and Christmas 🎄 bits and bobs.

They look amazing and tasted delicious too.