To complete our rainforest topic we spent the afternoon on a team challenge around building trees. Our challenge was to build a tree taller than Miss S with roots, a trunk and leaves which would not fall over in a wind (Miss S blowing on it!).

We worked together with children from other year groups in our class to create a tree from junk modelling, newspaper and masking tape.

We soon found out that working together was important.

We all used a slightly different method to make our tree especially when it came to the roots. The classroom was a hive of activity.

At the end we all admired our work. All our trees were successful but we all thought we could do better if we had another go.

Maybe we’ll think of something different to build next term – do you have any suggestions?