A huge focus for this term in Writing has been about how to use adjectives. Last week we created our own tree poems using a Five Senses format. Below are the senses and some of the student voice we gathered ExploringSimiles The children them went outside and identified a tree on the school grounds they … More Tree Poetry
As we explore time… The children made their own clocks after we made a giant clock in class. Together we broke time down into hours and minutes. Literally jumping in fives around our giant circle. The children got to play the hour or minute hand and had to put themselves into the correct position on … More Time is Ticking
Last Thursday we had the awesome challenge of designing, discussing, voting and constructing two classroom forts. We started by designing our dream forts and thinking about where we could have them in the classroom. We decided after sharing that we would have two teams. One run by three Artistic Directors who made all the decisions … More Fantastic Forts
The children were given two images painted by Picasso (this activity was about the children being exposed to Picasso’s work due to the class novel we are currently reading). Here is one written by a year four boy: One stormy night a Viking man saw a portal, he wondered if he should go through it. … More Inspired by Picasso!
The dance was performed today during the whole school assembly,thank you to the parents who were able to come along and see it and for those of you who will hear all about and I’m sure want photos here you go: The children created and danced their way through many different situations. From waking up … More Life Dance
We are currently reading an interesting class book ‘Bettina Valentino and the Picasso Club’. The premise is about a student Bettina who gets a new Art teacher at school and becomes intrigued by the Dada movement (a surrealist form of Art). Bettina’s class create a Dada poem, the kids loved this idea. In the text … More Hmmmmm Dada Homework
Following on from Shapes we explored positional language. The kids were learning about left, right, clockwise, anti-clockwise, up,around etc. They had to use positional language to direct their buddy around mazes, around the classroom and around the school. Following on from this we looked at the x and y axis! And plotting a course or … More Co-ordinates
At the beginning of the term we began an investigation into 2D and 3D shapes. We discussed vertices, edges, faces and more. Isosceles, scalene and equilateral triangles not to mention cylinders and hexagons! One of the challenges we gave the children was to create their own ‘Shape Monsters’. They could use various basic shapes such … More Shape Monsters
On Thursday we walked down to see a show created by Scottish company Curious Seed called ‘Chalk About’.This show was a wonderful journey into theater, crowd interaction and dance. With a minimal set and some chalk the dancers/actors choose members of the audience to bring down and draw around. This initial interaction pulls the audience … More Chalk About
On Friday we read and explored the wonderful poem by Spike Milligan, ‘Today I saw a Little Worm’. This inspired the children to create their own. We brainstormed some ideas and thought about adjectives that could be used to describe an animal or insect i.e. giant. We also discussed the rhyming found in the poem. The … More Today I saw a Little Worm
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