This week in our science lesson in Denmark Class we have learnt about trees. We discovered that the bark of a tree helps protect it and we went outside to investigate the bark covering the trees around the school field. We completed bark rubbings and noticed the rough, bumpy texture of the bark.
CUSP Art – Painting
Over the last few weeks, we have been exploring textures and colours. We learnt that surfaces can have different textures and this changes how a surface feels in our hands. We also learnt about the primary colours and discovered that these three colours can come in a variety of tones and shades. We learnt about the parts of a paintbrush and practised the ‘dip, dip’ dab’ method when painting. We thought about ‘controlled brushstrokes’ and how the paint flows over different textures.
Forest Schools & Art
Today we are going to show you some Art and pictures of are some things we did in forest school.
At forest school we made a show called the ‘Ooga Boogas’ and we performed it to Mrs Barker and Jackdaw Jules. It was about cave men on a television show where a special guest joins them and they all compete to try and find the biggest stick. We also made mini instruments by cutting small pieces of wood in two, placing a reed in between and fastening it with rubber bands.
In Art we did some more line work and used water colour to paint in in between the lines. There were two big pictures and we need to pick a part of and draw it on a piece of paper. We used complimentary colours to create contrast and make it colourful.
Thanks for reading and goodbye! :]
Ava and Layla.
Art: Drawing & Painting
Hello, today we will show you some of our art .
We were looking at an artist: Friedensreich Hundertwasser, an Austrian painter and architect. We had a go at drawing some bits of his artwork using viewfinders to zoom in on bits of it. We also used charcoal to make a black backgrounds and used rubber to rub some bits out to make a picture, which is called subtractive drawing. Here are some photos of people’s artwork!
Hope you liked our blog and thank you for reading!
Ava and Layla
Year 2 using a place value chart
So far, Year 2 has looked in detail at numbers to 100, with a focus on making tens. They built on this to organise their representations in a place-value chart, placing pieces of equipment under the correct place-value headings. Once the children were comfortable with organising equipment into place value charts and understood the column headings, they began to write numbers into in the correct place and worked on questions in their worksheets.
Welcome to Year Five!
We are going to show you what we have been learning so far in year five, we hope you enjoy it.
In English we wrote a guide on surviving year five. It has everything you need to get yourself through the year without any stress or strain. It also has a list of things you’ll need and how to use them. With rhetorical questions and adventurous language this guide to year five won’t let you down.
We have been decorating our computer folders by using FIFA cards with our face on it and telling people what were good at from one to 100. Each card is unique and different because, we have all chosen stickers about us on them. Once they are printed we can put them on our computing folders for everybody to see!
We hope you have enjoyed our first blog and we are looking forward to seeing you next time!
Ava & Layla
Exploring Our Senses in RE
We have made a fantastic start to our new RE unit, exploring our big question: “What do my senses tell me about the world of religion and belief?”
We began our learning with a fun chocolate investigation, where we explored a bar of chocolate using our different senses. Some children used just one sense at a time, while another lucky volunteer got to experience the chocolate using all five senses!
We talked about what we could see, hear, smell, touch and taste, and thought carefully about how using our senses can change our experiences. We then discovered that in Hinduism, it is believed that using as many senses as possible can help people to have a richer experience when worshipping God.
It was a wonderful way to begin our unit and get us thinking about how our senses can help us understand the world around us, including different religions and beliefs.
And, of course, we ended the lesson by enjoying a piece of chocolate together, using all five of our senses!
A Wonderful Start to Year 1!
What a wonderful start we have all had to Year 1! We have been so impressed by the children’s excellent behaviour, positive attitudes and enthusiasm for learning. They have settled into their new routines beautifully and are already showing us what fantastic learners they can be.
In our Maths focus lessons, we have been exploring how we can sort and group objects by carefully considering their characteristics. We have worked with a range of objects, including cubes, plastic teddies and vehicles, and thought carefully about the different ways we could organise them. We sorted objects by colour, type and size, as well as coming up with our own creative ways to group them.
These activities have helped us to develop our observation, reasoning and classification skills, while encouraging us to explain our thinking and listen to the ideas of others.
We are incredibly proud of the way the children have begun their Year 1 journey and are looking forward to all the exciting learning ahead!
Denmark Day
To celebrate the fact we are called ‘Denmark Class’, we spent the first day back of term learning all about Denmark. We discovered that Denmark has over 400 islands and to say hello, you say “Hej”! We learnt about the flag and created some beautiful bunting for our classroom, as well as making the flag out of Lego…Lego was first created in Denmark after all! We played a version of the medieval Danish game called ‘Barrel Cat’ and named the rescued cats using traditional Viking names. We ended the day listening to the traditional story ‘The Ugly Duckling’ by the Danish author Hans Christian Anderson.
