This week we have started our art slice where we will be learning the skills of collage. To start with we have learned about a new artist Jessa Dupuis who is known for her collage work. In addition, we did a quick recap about Waltraud Nawratil who we studied for our painting art slice.
This week we have been learning about Spring. We have been reading The Hungry Caterpillar 🐛 We have practised sequencing the story in our small groups, and made some lovely butterfly pictures!
Our mosaic art pieces are really coming together 🙂
Today we started sketching out and creating our final draft for our mosaic. We are really enjoying creating our Easter cards 🙂 In maths we have been looking at lines of symmetry and symmetrical patterns and we are trying to apply our learning to our butterflies wings.
Firstly we recapped the techniques needed for mosaic art then we looked at and explored some of the images we will use as a stimulus for our own mosaic art pieces. We thought about which parts we needed to practise, which parts may be difficult to create and which equipment we may use. After modelling from the teacher on the different parts we started to apply to our practise paper. We then took part in a gallery walk thinking about what we could see, how other people’s work compares to our own, then we paired up with another crew member and offered some critique. Our exit ticket allowed us to think about what we would do differently next time when we complete the process again.
We started our lesson today with a knowledge recall on our new artist Antoni Gaudi. We then had another look at Gaudi’s work, thinking about the art technique that had been used. We compared two different pieces and thought about similarities and differences. We also offered some critique with praises, notices and wonders. We then looked at the different techniques needed in mosaic- the direct and indirect methods. We watched a clip to see this in action then we had a practice ourselves using Gaudi’s work as a stimulus. We recreated the piece of art work using the methods we had observed in the clip. We then evaluated the process thinking about which techniques were reasonably straightforward to use and which were more difficult. Our gallery walk allowed us to observe everyone’s work and offer some critique to a peer.
On Friday Crew MI and Crew Boswell started their next art slice 🙂 Our entry ticket allowed us to discuss our existing knowledge on mosaic, discussing when we have used mosaic before and what we did. We then looked at a range of different mosaics where we thought about what we could see and the patterns. We thought about how the mosaic had been created, the materials used and which ones we liked the most and why. Then we gave some of our own critique giving praises, notices and wonders for the different pieces. Next we were introduced to the artist we would study through this art slice- Antoni Gaudi. We watched different clips to build background knowledge then worked in mini crews to discuss and note down what we had learnt from the video. We created a whole class anchor chart using the facts we had learnt. From here we explored some of Gaudi’s work and where we can find it. We looked at the Sagrada Familia, learning that it is still to be finished! We discussed the following questions when exploring some of Gaudi’s work… What can you see? How does it make you feel? What techniques have been used? What was Gaudi trying to express? Our exit ticket allowed us all to voice 1 fact about Gaudi in our mini crew. We then shared this with someone from another mini crew then someone else in the room.
This morning, we spent time mixing the icing to decorate out biscuits with. We made red, blue and yellow icing that was sticky and gloopy! We loved drizzling and spreading the icing over the gingerbread men to decorate them.
Crew MW have spent the morning baking our gingerbread men to sell on Friday! We will be raising money to buy some new story books for the children in EYFS, for the school library and to give out in the local community. We measured, poured, sifted, stirred and rolled to create our gingerbread men, talking about what we could see and what we could smell. We worked really well in our small groups to complete our baking and we had lots of fun!
In Crew Shields this afternoon, we have been sketching images based around global warming which will be used towards our final product.
