Cormorant class update

Cormorant class • February 9, 2019

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Science & maths in Cormorant class

Cormorant have been investigating how different items react when frozen and created a science experiment placing different liquids (such as water, oil, toothpaste, chocolate sauce, shampoo, orange juice, salt water, tomato sauce) into a mould and placed it into the freezer. The results were that most of the liquids froze apart from the oil, toothpaste and chocolate sauce, but we think the sauce may have if it was left in the freezer for longer. We used a lot of what we knew already to predict what may happen; we knew salt was used in icy weather, we knew you have oil in a car and that the car wouldn't work if the oil froze in cold weather, and we knew orange juice and water froze as we eat ice pops! We were surprised that the shampoo froze and the toothpaste didn't!

Next we would like to investigate what happens to things when they are heated - the opposite to what we have learnt!

With our Math's Heads on we have started to learn about division. We started by using what we already know - the number line! Some of us were using our times table knowledge to help and luckily we had an expert in the class to show us on the board!

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