P2A STEM challenge

Today we were given the challenge of working in teams to create the tallest tower we could….with limited resources! We had 5 minutes to plan our design then 20 minutes to build it. We had only 15 paper art straws and 10 sheets of scrap paper and some tape. We did a fantastic job and we showed great team work skills – listening to each other, helping and sharing our ideas.

Victorian Toys

P2 have been learning about Victorian toys. We wanted to find out what toys were made of and what type of things children played with. We learned that most toys were made of wood, metal or fabric, that children had far less toys than we do today, and that many of them were homemade. We had a go this week at making paper optical illusion toys and our own wooden peg dolls. It was lots of fun!