Reception: we'll huff and we'll puff!

This week, Reception have been learning about a traditional tale called The Three Little Pigs. 

The children have been wondering how much puff the wolf would need to blow a house down! They set to work experimenting with how hard they would need to huff and puff depending on the materials they were trying to blow down. We tested wood, straw and bricks just like the wolf in the story. We also tested other materials such as corks, cardboard tubes and wooden blocks. 

We found that we had to blow quite hard to blow down the wooden blocks, but the cardboard tubes were the easiest to blow down, especially when we made the walls really high.

We also discovered that we could make beautiful paint effects using our breath.

We are all rather puffed out!