Firstly, here are the answers to last weeks’ riddles.

What goes up and down but never moves? Stairs

I am tall when I am young but short when I am old. What am I? A pencil

You can only put this type of coat on when it is wet. A coat of paint

The beautiful sunshine this week got us talking about shadows. Drew explained why shadows were long so we drew around him and wondered if his shadow would change over time. We spoke about how the Earth moves around the Sun as the day goes on. When he stood in the same place later on we noticed that his shadow was in a different place.
Here are our unique fingerprints made into a wish. These are the things we wished for.

We had a busy week writing about how we made paintbrushes in the playground, counting coins to make different amounts and describing the properties of materials that make them suitable for different items, such as, brittle, flexible and absorbent.