Tuesday 30 April 2013

Toys project

We are well and truly underway with our project about Toys.  Thank you for letting the children take in a toy from the past.  It has helped us to learn about what toys used to be made out of and were able to compare it to toys today.

We have been looking at a village in Zambia, where children do not have lots of new, expensive toys but need to use their imaginations and make their own fun.  We tried this today using simple wooden blocks, bits of cloth and some junk materials - I was very impressed with how imaginative the children were.  The class have asked to do this activity again.  One child said "I've noticed that anything can be a toy".