Max wanted to find out about light. He asked Discovery Dog and Naughty Nora to show him how to use a torch. He found out that if you shine a torch on something dark you can see it clearly. If you shine a torch on something light it's hard to see.
Yesterday, while our classroom was dark, we learned some new words - opaque, translucent and transparent. They explain how see-through things are. We then shone our torches through different materials to find out which ones let the light come through.
We had a lot of fun and learned which would be the best materials to make our shadow puppets.
Today we had some special visitors to our school. The team from Starsnappers came to teach us about taking photographs. We took lots of photos of them while they too lots of photos of us!
This week Mr Ellis made our classroom dark. He covered the windows with black plastic.
We thought about how the darkness made us feel. We also looked to see what we could see in the dark. We lit some candles to see what it was like in the half-light.