How a candle works

A candle is an object that produces light and a bit of heat. A candle is made up of wax, a wick and a flame (which you need a match to light). But how does it work?

The wax part of the candle act as the candles food. The other food for the candle is oxygen. The candle needs these to make it go. The candle absorbs the wax by melting the top of the wax to make it liquid wax and then soaking it up the wick to the flame. It eats the 'nutrients' (stuff it needs) and leaves the rest in its liquid form. The effect is you have used a match, heat, liquid wax, some smoke and burned oxygen.

My Goal For This Term

This term I want to learn about science, so it helps that this terms inquiry is science. At the moment we have been 'tuning in' and have done experiments with liquid and heat. But back to the topic. The specific thing in science I want to learn about is gases and what the difference is between them.

Learner Profile Goals

My Learner profile this term is 'Being responsible for my environment'. I chose this because I seem to not really care about it. I will improve at this by cleaning up before I am asked, and also 'opening my eyes' so I actually see what's happening to the world.

Basic Facts Ladder

The holidays are done and dusted so everybody is back at school. In this post I am going to talk about one of mr Herrings fantastic ideas to help us learn mathmatics. This strategy is called the Basic Facts Ladder. It has 63 levels of basic facts which go from stage 1-8 so is great for all levels.

The level I started on was level 52 and I finished the basic facts ladder just before the end of the term. I am really proud of my achievement.