The children in nursery have had a lovely week learning all about the Queen and celebrating the platinum jubilee. We have decorated crowns for our own parade, decorated flags and bunting for our classroom and made some delicious cakes for our Jubilee celebration with...
This week we made cards for the Queen, explored money in Maths and learnt all about the United Kingdom including using the colours of our flag in baking cakes. To celebrate such a monumental event in British History we learnt a song about the Queens likes and jobs.
In nursery we created our own hungry caterpillar to practise throwing and catching balls and bean bags. First, we looked at the shapes and colour of our caterpillars to make our large version. We researched using books and the internet where caterpillars lived and...
Each week we love our forest sessions. We explore the principle of plan-do-review where we decide what we are going to do and write a list of equipment we need to help us to prepare for our session.
Today we have been learning skills which enable us to sketch realistic animals. We focussed on proportion to ensure the features of our animals were accurately scaled. We also used our previously learned shading skills to add depth to our pieces.
We have been learning all about Australia and studying Emily Kame Kngwarreye who is an Aboriginal Australian artist. We learnt about what the patterns and dots mean and which colours would be used to create our very own boomerangs.
In Art we have been learning about an aboriginal artist called Emily Kame Kngwarreye and her famous abstract paintings. We then looked at boomerangs and how aboriginal people used them to hunt animals. We can even name all the parts of a boomerang! We enjoyed...
Today is the day we get to take home our sculptures. The children have evaluated their work, paying close attention to the detail they added which was inspired by Joan Miro.
