Ambury Farm Inquiry

By Anonymous -
The focus of Term 2 Inquiry was Technology, specifically building and structures. Using the Three Little Pigs story, we discussed animal structures and why we thought it was important for animals to have good houses.
We then visited Ambury Farm. Afterwards, we looked at pictures of the animal houses we saw there. We talked about what animals needed in their houses and what made a good animal house.
Here is the Room 4 thinking around this:

Using the children's ideas for what a good animal house needed, we then posed a building challenge:

The children were so creative in building their structures! 

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