We have been learning about wood, metal, glass, plastic and cloth.
We decided that wood is good for making houses and boats and we also discovered that many things are made from plastic, we found lots of things in our classroom! We also explored how materials feel and discovered some materials are strong, bendy and soft.
We were then given a challenge – we had to build a tower - the tallest one wins! And the materials we were given.....Spaghetti and Marshmallows!
We worked hard at this challenge and spent lots of time problem solving! We learnt that one strand of spaghetti wasn’t strong enough, we decided we needed to start with a strong base, and most of all, that there are many other more suitable materials we could use to build a tall, strong tower!!!! We had a lot of fun and the Bee’s won the challenge with a tower of 500mm high! The best bit was eating our towers at the end of the challenge!!!
Yum marshmallos and spaghetti! well done to the bee's but most of all I think you all did a fantastic job. If i'd made one mine would have probabaly broken straight away! Great team work aswell!
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What an interesting project! You'll have to discuss it with P5 as they are doing a homework task on plastic and it's uses. It looks like you all had a great fun making spaghetti and marshmallow towers and worked well as teams. I think by the look of Marcus and Erin's faces they enjoyed eating the mallows the best! Yum Yum springs to mind. Caroline(Erin's mum)
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