Aaliyah had a great time making a bridge construction. We had lots of help from granddad who was clearly a natural at model structure engineering 🙂
We decided to make a bridge out of wooden ice lolly sticks. We found out that using a triangle shaped structure spreads out weight and is much more stable than a rectangle or square support.
We looked carefully at Aaliyah’s bridge as it was such a strong one! Super work Aaliyah 🙂 You decorated it beautifully with your writing too. Can you try and use the construction at school to make a different type of bridge?
This is a comment for the Billy Goat Gruff homework:
Alice enjoying hearing and watching this tale told on YouTube. She liked the tip, tap, tip, tap of the Billy Goats over the bridge, when the Big Man would come then! We then built our bridge from stiff cardboard and decorated it and drew the stream underneath. We talked about the materials we used and agreed a cardboard bridge would not be a good material if it were a real bridge as the Billy Goats are as big as Alice and they would squash the cardboard. We agreed bricks of stones held with cement would be better
Alice made a super bridge, it would just be too tempting to cross if it was a real one! You had super discussion about materials as well. Thank you for bringing in your fantastic work 🙂
Jake decided to make his bridge using mega blocks. He built his bridge all on his own! He used the square shaped blocks to build his columns. He then built a straight bridge across, building two layers to make it strong. He said he didn’t want to build it too long or else it would break. Jake’s bridge was good and strong and he then took it away to play with.
I am impressed that Jake did this all by himself, well done 🙂 You thought carefully about how to make your bridge as strong as it could be, what a super engineer!
Isla chose an empty toothpaste carton from which to build her bridge, using additional cardboard to support the sides. She made and decorated a road going over the bridge with four cars, a lion and a duck crossing! Isla’s Granny and Grandad helped her with this. Isla also enjoyed hearing the tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff on YouTube.
Alex and his daddy looked at pictures of different types of bridges on the internet. They found bridges of all different shapes and sizes. They built a bridge using drinking straws and plasticine. It looked good but it wasn’t very strong and it fell down when they put weight on it. Alex likes making bridges out of mega blocks and also when he plays with his train set it has a wooden foot bridge.
Aaliyah had a great time making a bridge construction. We had lots of help from granddad who was clearly a natural at model structure engineering 🙂
We decided to make a bridge out of wooden ice lolly sticks. We found out that using a triangle shaped structure spreads out weight and is much more stable than a rectangle or square support.
We looked carefully at Aaliyah’s bridge as it was such a strong one! Super work Aaliyah 🙂 You decorated it beautifully with your writing too. Can you try and use the construction at school to make a different type of bridge?
This is a comment for the Billy Goat Gruff homework:
Alice enjoying hearing and watching this tale told on YouTube. She liked the tip, tap, tip, tap of the Billy Goats over the bridge, when the Big Man would come then! We then built our bridge from stiff cardboard and decorated it and drew the stream underneath. We talked about the materials we used and agreed a cardboard bridge would not be a good material if it were a real bridge as the Billy Goats are as big as Alice and they would squash the cardboard. We agreed bricks of stones held with cement would be better
Alice made a super bridge, it would just be too tempting to cross if it was a real one! You had super discussion about materials as well. Thank you for bringing in your fantastic work 🙂
Jake decided to make his bridge using mega blocks. He built his bridge all on his own! He used the square shaped blocks to build his columns. He then built a straight bridge across, building two layers to make it strong. He said he didn’t want to build it too long or else it would break. Jake’s bridge was good and strong and he then took it away to play with.
I am impressed that Jake did this all by himself, well done 🙂 You thought carefully about how to make your bridge as strong as it could be, what a super engineer!
Isla chose an empty toothpaste carton from which to build her bridge, using additional cardboard to support the sides. She made and decorated a road going over the bridge with four cars, a lion and a duck crossing! Isla’s Granny and Grandad helped her with this. Isla also enjoyed hearing the tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff on YouTube.
That sounds like you thought really carefully about how you were going to make it Isla, and that you took your time. Super work 🙂
Alex and his daddy looked at pictures of different types of bridges on the internet. They found bridges of all different shapes and sizes. They built a bridge using drinking straws and plasticine. It looked good but it wasn’t very strong and it fell down when they put weight on it. Alex likes making bridges out of mega blocks and also when he plays with his train set it has a wooden foot bridge.