As you know, our topic this half term is all about Polar Adventures. We are working hard this week on our final non-chronological reports to send to Professor Pole telling him about everything we have learnt about the Arctic.

In our Science lesson this week we started to think more about ice. We know it is made by freezing water and we know when ice melts it returns to water. We looked at an ‘iceberg’ and felt it. It was extremely cold and we couldn’t touch it for too long! We noticed that when we started touching it we had water on our hands. We decided the heat from our hands was making it melt.

We are going to do an experiment to find the best and worst places in our classroom to melt an ice cube. Today we planned our experiment and made a prediction. Most of us thought it would melt faster by the radiator and slower by the door or window. We also talked about how we could check it was a fair test. We decided that we would all need to start our experiment at the same time and all use the same size ice cubes.

Check back next week to find out our results.