Author: oliviaholdensmith

Hi welcome back to my blog page I have made an ancient Egyptian stop motion I hope you enjoy.

Here’s a short film about the water cycle that I made. Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think!!

For my next post I would like to talk about volcanoes. Here are some volcano facts.

1. A volcano is a hole usually on top of a mountain on the surface of the earth where gas, magma and ash can shoot out. This can be called an eruption.

2. Magma is the word for hot liquid rock inside a volcano. After it leaves the volcano, it is called lava. It is red, hot and fiery.

You should never touch lava if you ever get to see it.

3. The word “volcano” comes from the Roman name “Vulcan” – the Roman god of fire.

4. Volcanoes are either active, dormant or extinct. “Active” means there is regular activity, “dormant” means there has been recent activity but is quiet at the moment and “extinct”, means it’s been so long since the last eruption that it probably won’t happen again.

5. The world’s highest active volcano is Mauna Loa in Hawaii and is 4,169m high.

6. Nearly 2,000 years ago Mount Vesuvius erupted, and covered the Italian town of Pompeii. The ash covered the town and the remains of the people who lived there.

On Sunday 20th January I visited Manchester Museum we looked around the whole museum and even found pieces of ash and rock from Mount Vesuvius when the eruption happened, and a person and their dog who had been covered in ash when the volcano erupted.

Hope you enjoyed reading about volcanoes and my visit to the museum. If you know any more interesting facts leave me a comment!

See you soon for another blog

Olivia

Thanks for joining me!

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”

In my first post I’d like to talk to you about The Stone Age, one of my topics for this term in Year 3.

On Saturday 24th of November I went to the Stone circle in Castlerigg near Keswick in the Lake District.

We counted the stones and I think there were 49.

But how did Stone Age people get the stones up in the hills without trucks and roads? One idea is that they pushed the stones along using logs for rollers underneath.

It was built 4,500 years ago. The stone circle was used for ceremonies and as a trading place for things like stone axes, and animal skins for clothes.

To help with my topic on The Stone Age, our friends John and Helen sent me a piece of flint stone and chalk. Stone Age people would have used flint for making tools and chalk stone for cave painting.

John and Helen collected these from a place called the Jurassic coast in the south of England where very old rocks and fossils can be found. Thank you very much John and Helen!

I hope you like my first blog and if you know anything about the Stone Age please leave a message in the comments section!

Thank you for reading 🙂

Olivia