On Friday, Year 3 had a visit from Winchester Museum.  We were learning about what colours we can see in a shadow. We made predictions about which colours we thought might show up. Some of  us thought yellow or green or blue.  We made shadow puppets in groups and stuck the coloured paper on the front.  We realised that the coloured paper didn’t show up on the shadows created by the shadow puppets because the card blocked out all of the light.

Today we started to think about which materials to use to create our shadow puppets.  We discovered that coloured plastic did create a colour shadow and that we could create new colours by putting two pieces of coloured plastic together such as yellow and blue to create green.  We also decided that card was the best material to use for creating our shadow puppets because it gave a clear shadow and was a strong material so would not go floppy.

Could you please bring in any spare cardboard tomorrow so the children can create their shadow puppets this week.

Thank you

Year 3 team