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Christmas Party Time in Year 3!

Year 2 enjoyed their first performance of the infant nativity 'The Lucky Owl'.

We were so proud. We all remembered our lines and spoke very clearly.

We have been writing cinquains this week and today we wrote and performed them. As you can imagine, there was a bit of a Christmassy theme with the poems

We had a great time visiting the animal park on Friday. We fed the giraffes, reindeers, ourselves and met Father Christmas! 

We have designed our own Egyptian Death Masks inspired by ones we have been studying from Ancient Egpyt.

After taking out the decorations, the children where given the chance to Christmas-fy the classroom. This is the resulting tree!

Igneous rocks are formed when molten rocks cool to leave a glassy or shiny surface. As we couldn't heat rocks to 1200 degrees, the chocolate went into some hot water followed by cool water to create the effect.

By holding the chocolate and squeezing it, we were able to create metamorphic rock. Typically by adding heat and pressure, metamorphic rocks have crystals or ribbon-like layers.

We have talked about how rocks are formed and by grating milk and white chocolate, we were able tried all three ways! 

Sedimentary rocks are formed when layers of sediment are compacted together. 

We have been reading a wonderful book called 'The Rabbits' by John Marsden and Shaun Tan. It has raised lots of moral issues and discussion and as per usual we have added some drama- above is how we imagine the possums would feel when they first catch sight of the rabbis. 

We have had a fantastic morning investigating maps, letters and other historical sources to find out about Alfred Wainwright and have also copied some his maps and sketches. Many thanks to Barrow Archives for a great morning.