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Foundation Stage look forward to their Forest School Tuesday’s! And today we had great fun making our own perfumes…
We have been noticing the weather changing this week as the seasons begin to change and the world around us starts to grow again, the flowers, the bee’s, the tree’s! It’s all coming to life, the buds appearing and the shoots in the ground beginning to bloom. It’s the little things that you notice when you stop and take time to watch and listen… but these little things make a big picture of what’s happening in the world all around us.
We decided to go on a nature walk around school, looking for things that we could use to make our own perfumes and scents of spring. We talked about different flowers and weeds and collected bits from the ground and around us, using our senses…touch and smell. We talked about textures and scent and made observations of everything we saw.
We collected our findings and brought them back to our Forest School kitchen where we got stuck-in cutting, pulling, mixing, chopping, squashing, picking, stirring, pouring and sieving our very own Spring scents! We added a touch of colour, a splash of glittery magic and a lot of care and love into our recipes!
We compared scents with our friends, some smelt very strong! We discussed what we could smell and which ones we preferred…
Foundation Stage have been exploring all things GREEN!
We looked at how we can make green and explored different shades of it. We went on a green scavenger hunt to start with, exploring our outside area on a hunt for green things. We found lots of natural things around us- like leaves and plants! But we also spotted lots of toys and equipment that was green! We brought it altogether so we could explore the shade and then had a go at making our own shades of green, using white to make it lighter and black to make it darker. We explored what happens when we add more blue or more yellow.
In literacy we have been reading ‘Jack and the Beanstalk‘ so lots of us decided to use our experimented green shades to create our own beanstalks! They looked absolutely superb, so we have showcased them around the classroom on display!
Earlier this year, Y3/4 submitted a few pieces of work to be considered for the Junior Open Exhibition within the Ferens Gallery in Hull.
We were delighted to learn though our pieces were on display for all to see and appreciate so we decided to take a mini-trip to see our work professionally displayed.
It was really exciting to visit the Gallery. We enjoyed looking at a range of Art work from children across the city and were blown away with the quality of it.
We enjoyed sharing our opinions as we walked around the other parts of the gallery, discussing how the Artists had made their sculpture, collage or edited their photography,
But by far, the best part of the afternoon was the smile on our faces when we found our own Art work!
Sewing Club is back! This term Year 4 have been designing and creating a bookmark. The children were able to choose a blank bookmark, a whole range of colourful threads and over the weeks have created some very individual bookmarks. These sewing superstars have learned how to thread a needle, how to secure the thread to the binca, and how to sew a variety of stitches. Each bookmark is then finished off with a felt backing and a coordinating tassel. Here are some of their finished projects, they are super proud of their bookmarks and their well deserved achievement certificate.
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- Time for juice and biscuits
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- Great designing
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- Super concentration
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- Even gamers can sew!
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- Fans of Among Us
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- Lucky Mum
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- One for Dad
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- Plans and instructions
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- Qualified sewers
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- Something for everyone
This week in our Art lesson, year 5 enhanced their skills of ‘etching’.
Firstly, the children choose their preferred Celtic symbol from a previous art lesson, they then etched their design onto a polystyrene tile to create an imprint. After this, the children chose a choice of colour from the painting ink (they loved this bit!) and placed their tile in the painting ink. Using a roller to embed the colour, the children carefully removed their tile to reveal the etched Celtic symbol. Finally, their tiles were placed onto a page in art books, making their final print.
Here are some snapshots of the different stages of the lesson, showing how much fun the children in Y5MEA had!
Today the children have been learning all about the artist Jackson Pollock. We created our own art in the style of Jackson Pollock by dripping and splashing paint to show movement.