Puppets
This theme provided us with a challenge of creating a doll, that could be animated by the puppeteer. Kids have explored various kinds of animated puppets: finger puppets, rod, or sticks puppets and string puppets, also called marionettes. We have looked on how those...
Skyscrapers May 9th
Back after the half term break, with future constructors of Year 5 class from Robert Browning Primary School from Walworth, London SE17. Children have learned about materials used in construction of buildings of the Docklands area today and in the 1800’s. We...
Arches
We have explored the concept of Arches; how they are used, how they work? We have looked at various buildings using arches. Children have experimented building arches with arch segments, testing the load bearing capacity of different designs. Then kids went on...
Tall Towers…
We are building high again! With foam cubes and toothpick we were creating tall structures. It was a great hands on discovery of how structures work, how the elements work together to make the design stable and strong. Children have learned about connecting elements...