This afternoon F2 decided to test the best materials to use for building a house! After reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in literacy, the children had a few questions about house building. If we were going to build our own house would we use straw? And if not, why not? Would we use sticks? or bricks? Lego? We decided to test a house made from each material that we had built and see if it was strong or weak. In order to test the house we wanted to see if it would withstand a big blow… from perhaps a BIG BAD WOLF! Using a hair dryer we made a strong ‘blow’ from the wolf and tested out our theories of strong or weak materials. We made a table of our predications and started our experiment! We reached the conclusion that the strongest materials to use would be either brick or Lego, as they did not move after the big windy blow! Straw, paper and sticks however, did not hold out so well! What a fun afternoon, with lots of giggles and mess!!!