This week we have been drawing silhouettes, looking at the timeline of Queen Victoria and even tricking each other with a disappearing coin trick. Silhouettes are pictures or drawings only taken of the side of a person’s face.

As you can see this girl’s fringe, lips, lashes, ponytail and her hair on top of her head all stick out, but you can’t see the features of her face.

We have also started our Victorians topic and we learned that Queen Victoria was the first person to get her picture taken by French photographer Alexander Bassano. Queen Victoria was also the first one to actually use the telephone, to be put to sleep with an anaesthetic, to have her voice recorded and she was the first person to be filmed.  Queen Victoria was Queen on 1837 and she was born on 24^th of May 1819 and died in 1901.

Our comprehension passage was called ‘Disappearing Coin Trick’. To make this you get 2 pieces of the same coloured card. Cut a hole in one and stick it onto a clear cup then get the other piece of card and place it upside down on the other piece of card. Place a coin underneath and see your audience get amused when covering the coin with the cup!