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This week the Mead classroom has been volcano and dinosaur mad! On
Monday we started building our very own volcano. We made a wire volcano frame
and then did papier-mache over the top.
Miss
Amelia: What shape will it need to be?
Alex: A circle shape
Jacob: A big shape
Angus: It needs a bit
for da lava to come out
Charlie
Mac: Yeah, for the fire to come out
Jacob: It looks like a
tent.
We made glue by mixing flour and water, and ripped up lots of
newspaper. Then the fun began! It was messy work, but over two days our volcano
took shape. Once it was dry we painted it. Dougal, Jock and Harry B chose the
colours for the volcano: green, black, and blue. Angus and Dougal chose the
colours for the lava: pink and orange. While our volcano dried we watched some
YouTube videos of real volcanoes erupting!
Alex: It's smoke
Miss
Amelia: Why is the smoke different colours?
Dougal: Maybe it changed
its mind!
Toby:
It
looks like mud
Alex: Look, fire!
Angus: Look Miss
Amelia- lava! There’s two lava volcanoes. It sounds like racing cars.
James
S: It’s dribbling
James W and Jock were highly creative and started a popular new
game- making volcanoes out of the cardboard tubes in the block corner! We added
some red and orange cellophane, and soon the Mead room was littered with
erupting volcanoes.
Jock: It’s coming out!
James
W:
It's erupting, watch out! Now my wood is burnt.
Angus: Cos d’lava is
hot
James
W:
The ash is coming out
Toby:
I’m
taking my volcano to Dinoland
Angus:
Watch
out, it’s exploding!
Toby: I’ve got my
protective gloves on
Harry
M:
Mine don’t burn my fingers
We have been having so much fun with volcanoes that they have taken
over our holiday program- next week we are going to make some real erupting
ones!
Have a lovely weekend everyone,
Miss Sarah and Miss Amelia.
