Continuing the explorations for science week, today we investigated the effects of different liquids on candy canes!

This is what our jars of hot water, vinegar and oil looked like after 5 minutes.

These were the results after 30 minutes, the hot water dissolved the candy cane fastest, followed by the cold water, the vinegar and as you can see, the candy cane in the oil has not changed.

We used our knowledge about sugar dissolving in hot water to conclude that the hot water worked quickly to dissolve the candy cane because of the amount of sugar in it!

In language we were comparing the features of a fiction and a non-fiction book. We realised that some features are found in both types of texts!