Whats the Weather?

Room 7 have been having fun with our Weather topic this term. 
 It all began with the water cycle.

We learnt about words like evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.  We also learnt that our water goes round and round in a cycle.  In fact the same water is being used as was used when dinosaurs roamed the earth....that's amazing!

We had fun making our own water cycles on paper plates and then began the experiments.  This one was when we actually made rain in a glass!

We found out about the different types of clouds and went out and about cloud spotting.

Then we wrote Explanations about How a Cloud is made:

How clouds are made

A cloud is made out of gas, waterdroplets, dust and water vapour.  It mixes altogether then it forms into a cloud that holds thousands of raindrops.  There are 5 types of clouds and their names are Cirrus and Cumulonimbus.  The cirrus is high up in the sky.  It makes it very thin.  Stratus looks very fluffy but it is actually very heavy.  A stratocumulus is gray and low in the sky, it is lumpy too.  Cumulus clouds are as tall as a mountain and they might produce thunder and lightning.  A cumulonimbus cloud produces thunder storms and tornadoes.  I love clouds.

Sam

A cloud is made from two hundred water vapours which have evaporated up into the sky and gotten stuck onto lots of little bits of dust that were sort of waiting for them up in the sky.  This is how you make a cloud!  Some dust and water and some are even made out of crystals as well!  This is how the water cycle goes: first it is evaporation, then condensation and then precipitation, then collection.  The other name for the water cycle is the atmosphere.

Annabelle

The sun comes up and warms the rivers.  Some of the water evaporates.  It comes up eventually into the sky as water vapour.  It makes a cloud with gas, dust and water.  It only rains when the atmosphere cannot hold any more water.  It keeps going and going and going, it never stops.  The word for rain is precipitation.  All the clouds are made out of the same thing.

Maggie T

A cloud is made from dust and water droplets and other little things.  Also the sun warms up the water and the rivers.  Then it mixes with dust and dirt in the sky and then all of the water droplets form together.  Then it makes a cloud.

Ollie

                       We have had lots of fun learning about the weather.