Welcome Back!

We have had a lovely first day back after the holidays, everyone was very enthusiastic to find out about what we will be learning this half term which is fantastic! This afternoon we started our topic with a 'speed learning' session! We were put into groups and each group then visited a different station around the hall to learn about different areas of our new topic - we only got 5 minutes at each station!

 By thinking about what we already know we were able to develop our thinking and ask new questions about what we want to learn next! We had a super time! Have a look at the pictures of our speed learning session and read the captions to find out what we want to learn!

We started to think about how clothes are made. We know clothes don't grow in the ground but we aren't too sure how clothes are made or where fabric comes from! Definitely a good area to investigate!
Q: How are clothes made? 

Here we are making predictions and finding out which fabrics are waterproof and which are not!
Q: Why are some clothes waterproof?

Here we are weaving using some cooling racks! It was lots of fun and we made some pretty patterns, but we wondered what weaving has to do with clothes! Another question we will be answering in our topic! 

We looked at lots of books about clothes and found that there are lots of different clothes all over the world. We also had books about what clothes used to be like in the past and wondered why they are different now?
Q: What kinds of clothes do people wear around the world?

Here we had magnifying glasses to explore lots of different types of materials. The materials looked very different up close, and each one looked a little bit different. We will be exploring lots of different types of materials in our topic!
Q: What are different materials used for?