This week in F2 we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs!‘ We have loved this story, especially acting out characters like the wolf! And we have been huffing and puffing all about the classroom!

This got us thinking?

Could we really blow down a house? And what are houses made from? We had great discussions about the materials used to build a house and whether these materials were strong or weak? Could they withstand the ‘huff and puff’ of a wolf? After many discussions, we decided to put it to the test. As a class we predicted what we thought would happen to the different houses we made, from the different materials we picked (sticks, bricks, straw, plastic, metal, wood). We made a tally chart, ticking or crossing if we thought the wolf could blow it down! In order to get enough ‘huff’ we used a hairdryer to give us enough blow- this brought up lots of discussions about how the hairdryer worked and electricity! Together the wolf and the children ‘huffed and puffed’ and attempted to blow down the houses! We then assessed our predictions and whether we had predicted right, filling in our tally chart to evaluate!