Worms in apples

We enjoyed our art lesson.

We coloured apples and worms and then we wove our worms into our apples.

What is worse than having an apple with a worm in it?

Having an apple with HALF a worm in it....ha, ha, ha!

Billy's bucket

We are reading a fantastic book about Billy's bucket.

We are also having fun with drama based on this story.

In one scenario teacher was Billy and we were his parents.

Billy wanted a bucket for his birthday present and we had to try to put him off.

In the next scenario we were all buckets in the bucket shop and we each had to try and persuade Billy that we were the best bucket to pick.  Billy in our class finally chose a glow in the dark bucket. How cool!

In our last scenario Billy looked into his bucket and could see right down to the bottom of the ocean.

We all had a look in Billy's bucket and we told teacher what each of us could see.

We love this story.

Designing clothes

We spent yesterday investigating coats, materials, colours, reflectors, hoods, pockets etc.

Today we designed clothes.

Some of our clothes are waterproof, some are not.

They all look great.

Here is a great story (Aesop's fable) about the Sun and the North Wind

Lara's fantastic animals

We had a wonderful artistic workshop today with an inspiring artist Lara Luxardi.

We began by discussing different animals.  We were able to tell which were mammals, which were birds and which were reptiles.  We talked about what were common traits to each group and what animals in each group look like.  We discussed physical features, whether the animals were carnivores, herbivores or omnivores, whether they are vertebrates or invertebrates.  We also talked about colours and textures of their skin and feathers.

Each of us then drew a fantastic animal, with whatever animal features we liked.

Our pictures were fantastic, and extremely creative.

When we were finished this activity we made fold over paintings (which we will finish off as butterflies when they are dry).

After the lunch break we were shown how to use pencils, chalks, multi-material collage, mosaic, frottage (rubbings), stencils and pointillism (dots) to be creative in the design of our own fantastic animals.  The results are amazing!

We are so proud of our art.

Many thanks to Lara for such a wonderfully artistic day!