Year 3 are really enjoying our new topic about about volcanoes.

We have spent time looking at the layers of the Earth and found out lots of details about each layer. We know the outside of the Earth is called the crust and then the following layers are the mantle, the outer core and finally, the inner core.

We have also looked at the parts of a volcano and can identify different parts such as the crater, the throat, the vent and the ash cloud.

This week, we have looked at different types of volcanoes. We looked at different volcanoes around the world and discussed why we thought they may be different form each other. We thought that some may be dormant or extinct volcanoes as trees and plants were growing around them. We also thought that some volcanoes were older than others.

The volcanoes we looked at were different forms of volcanoes. We discovered that high sided volcanoes are called composite and that volcanoes that look a little like a bowl and have runny lava are called shield volcanoes.