Weather Project Maths

My new maths book.It is really good.

Science and Engineering Week - Day 1

This week is the start of Science and Engineering week ,so we are doing an experiment a day.
Today's first experiment was making a rainbow - you get a bowl and add some water then clear nail vanish,dip black paper in the water and you are meant to get a rainbow on the paper, but it did not work so we added some olive oil, but it still did not work.

The second experiment was called Sky and Sunset in a Jar, you put a drop of milk and some water in a jar or cup and then shine a torch on the jar, when you shine it on the back it goes red and if you shine it on the front it goes blue.

This one did not really work, we could see abit of red at the back but it should have been done in the dark.

We saved the best till last, Tornado in a Jar, here is how you do it - put a little water in a jar (with a lid) then add a teaspoon of washing - up liquid and a teaspoon of vinegar. Shake really well, then start move the jar with the lid on in a circle and you will begin to see a tornado forming.

Here is the link for events and information about this week.

http://www.britishscienceassociation.org/web/nsew/

Catch a Rainbow in a glass experiment

Get 4 cups and put in one 2 spoonfuls of sugar and the next one 3 then 4,5 and add 2 spoons of hot water to each.

Add a little bit of food colouring red,blue,yellow and green and mix well.

Each cup ready.

Then carefully put the one with 5 sugars in a cup then slowly sliding it off the edge of a teaspoon 4,3,2 and there you go, a rainbow.

Experiment taken from Blue Yonder Book of Days - March Issue.

http://blueyonder.typepad.com/

Snow Balls

To make your snow balls you will need.
1 cup of peanut butter
1/2 a cup of icing sugar
1/2 a cup of nonfat dry milk
1 1/2 cups of white chocolate
1/2 a cup of coconut

Here is what you need to do.

Mix the peanut butter with the dry milk and the icing sugar using a mixer.
Then pick up some of the mixure and role it in to a ball,place the balls on a tray lined with waxed paper, put the the tray in the freezer while you melt the white choclate.
Then get the balls out of the freezer and dip them in the the melted chocolate, then the coconut.
Now put the balls back in the freezer for 30 minutes and there you go.

The snow balls were very nice, they were just like Snickers ice creams.

Recipe taken from Blue Yonder's Book of Days - January Issue.
http://blueyonder.typepad.com/my_weblog/

Weather Project

For my weather project, I made vanilla snowflake cookies.Then I iced them with white chocolate.

Fire and Poems

This morning, we looked at weather poetry.

This is my poem,

The sky suddenly goes dark.
Fast, loud, rain pours down.
It's cold It's windy.
Bright flashes light up the sky.
I see lightening.

Lighting the fire with are new fire -starters. They work really well.