We love getting muddy in F1. Today Malik really enjoyed exploring how we can paint with mud. I think the smile says it all!
Category : Foundation Stage
We’ve been inspired by the cold weather to create some beautiful Winter art work.
Click on the link below to see how it was created…
It might have been wet and cold but a small group of us braved the elements and headed out. We warmed ourselves with the ‘delicious’ culinary delights that the children created; stirring, mixing, spooning, pouring was the aim of the day. Well done!
F1 have been learning about our homes. Click on the link below to see how we got on during our House Hunt…
Tuesday P.E this week had to be all about the different houses and homes! We incorporated all the things we have been learning in topic into our P.E lesson and made ‘flats’, ‘caravans’, ‘bungalows’ and ‘terraced’ houses with our bodies! We even had a go at making a street of terraced houses together! This was such a fun game, made even better by the music accompanied ‘Caravan of Love’ by the House Martins!!! The children loved making different shapes, tall and short, with their bodies and joining themselves together working as a team! We finished the session with a cool down activity and some yoga led by Mrs Buss! Our tree poses, downward dogs, child pose and cat cow positions were fantastic!
As part of our topic ‘Houses and Homes’ F2 have been exploring the different types of houses built, exploring vocabulary like ‘detached’, ‘semi-detached’, ‘bungalow’, ‘flat’, ‘caravan’ and ‘terraced’! The children have become very confident at spotting and naming the different types of houses! We also talked about road safety and how to keep safe crossing the roads with our adults. We spoke about stop, look, listen and think and even spotted some local police officer’s on patrol who helped us to cross safely! All the children in Foundation had a brilliant morning on our house hunting walk and worked together to tick off the houses on their scavenger list!
We have been busy this week learning all about our focus artist of the term Piet Mondrian! Born in 1872 (a long long time ago!) and a pioneer of abstract art Piet styled his artwork around bold colours using block prints to create art! The children loved researching his style and looking at various pieces he has created! This inspired our children to create some of their own pieces of art in a similar style! The children enjoyed mixing and making their own colours on a painting palette and worked together to produce some masterpieces!
A few snippets of a week in F2… we have been exploring numbers to 5 using Numicon, mark making and name writing, exploring ice and the changing of the seasons outside, designing and creating our own houses, making cement mixers, constructing bungalows, flats and caravans and most of all having lots of fun and laughter with our friends! We have also been learning the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ using our talk for writing signifiers, retelling the story to each other and learning all about our focus artist…Piet Mondrain and the mastery of block painting! (see next post!)
This afternoon F2 decided to test the best materials to use for building a house! After reading the story of ‘The Three Little Pigs’ in literacy, the children had a few questions about house building. If we were going to build our own house would we use straw? And if not, why not? Would we use sticks? or bricks? Lego? We decided to test a house made from each material that we had built and see if it was strong or weak. In order to test the house we wanted to see if it would withstand a big blow… from perhaps a BIG BAD WOLF! Using a hair dryer we made a strong ‘blow’ from the wolf and tested out our theories of strong or weak materials. We made a table of our predications and started our experiment! We reached the conclusion that the strongest materials to use would be either brick or Lego, as they did not move after the big windy blow! Straw, paper and sticks however, did not hold out so well! What a fun afternoon, with lots of giggles and mess!!!
