The Year 2’s Magical Exit Point
Suhana Jacky Khiani, Year 5
The Year 2 Exit Point was called ‘The Magic Toy
Maker’, an enjoyable learning event put together by
students and teachers in Year 2.
The things they did were making optical toys, making a
circuit and lastly, making a photo booth to keep all
those good memories they had.
The first activity is the optical toys. They made an
illusion which consists of an animal on one side of the
circle and a cage on the other side of it. When you turn
it around quickly the animal is seen in the cage which
was initially on the other side. But before they did all
that, they learned about the positioning of the animal
first. This toy is called a Thaumatrope.
The second activity is the circuit that they made with
their parents. It was a real circuit that used batteries
and a socket. It is very hard to make yet they did it
without comp