Boats

A funny thing happened when we were reading a book one day...

The character in the story made a little boat using a walnut shell, some plasticine and cardboard 

for a sail. We enjoyed reading the story and decided that we could make boats like that because 

we had been finding walnut shells all week near the back fence. (We have walnut trees there). 

So... after the book had finished, we all got cracking straight away! 

First we went and collected lots of walnut shells. We brought them back to class, cracked 

them in half and pushed a little stick into some dough or blu-tac that we put in the 

bottom of the shell. We attached a cardboard sail to the stick and... we had little boats!

It was a great day outside, so we wandered out to try the little boats in our 

wonderful river at the front of the school. We were so excited!

As you can see from the photos, we all had a lot of fun with our little boats. 

Some floated better than others, but we all had a good time making and sailing them in the sun.