We all know quite a lot about Te Ra, but today we investigated how Te Ra makes shadows.
We could see shadows in class, and we talked about all the other sources of light which help to make shadows.
We even read the book "The Gruffalo's Child", where the tiny mouse is kept safe from being the Gruffalo's dinner by making his shadow large and frightening.
After writing about how the mouse kept himself safe by using his shadow we went outside and investigated the shadows we could see.
In partners we drew around each others shadows with chalk. We worked out this was pretty tricky when our own shadow kept hopping in the way!
Then we traced around the shadow the trees were leaving on the concrete, because we had discussed that our shadows only moved when we moved.
We were all very shocked when we came back after lunch to see that the trees shadow had moved! And we're all pretty certain the trees didn't move! This led us to thinking about who else could have been moving! Te Ra! (but he is moving so much slower now thanks to Maui).
We will continue to look at shadows over the next couple of weeks and discuss why the sun is moving, and if it is the sun moving or us......
Watch this space!
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