We have been exploring the artist, Peter Thorpe, he’s an American artist who creates abstract art about space. We have started to generate out own ideas in the style of Peter Thorpe.
Out of this world 🪐☄️🚀
Category : Art and DT
Getting creative 🎨✨🧱
Look at some of our wonderful creations! We’ve been getting experimental, using the craft resources, as well as the stickle bricks to make wonderful, imaginative creations.
Super Sewers
A discussion in Crew Godley led to a revelation that some of the children had never sewn before 🧵🪡 We decided that this important life skill would be something really exciting to add to our labs this week. The crew have had great fun practicing how to thread and hold a needle. Jax has also found a new talent, not only is he a super artist but also a great sewer too!
Fantastic Fossils!
Today, we looked at what fossils are and the process of fossil formation. First, we made our own fossils in modelling clay. We found this really interesting and loved seeing the patterns appear in the clay. We then worked in mini crews to order the process of fossil formation.
Fascinating Fossils 🦴🪨🦕
In Crew FE this afternoon we learnt all about fossils, fossilisation and dinosaurs! 🦴🪨🦕 As part of our learning we had a go at using some modelling clay and shells to create our own fossils!
We’re on the move 🚗🚌🚀
There’s been lots of exciting activities happening in provision down in EYFS linked to our Summer expedition.
Box modelling has been popular this week with lots of us deciding to make buses, cars and spaceships! Carsen and Arya worked extremely well together to make a spaceship complete with rocket launchers and safety cables to keep the astronauts safe. Alyssa was very proud of her creation and loved the shiny metal details she had added to it. Max and Rose used their teamwork skills to decorate their vehicle making sure that they listened well to each other and talked through where to put everything. Anastasia and Harlow did a great job of adding extra features to their car and showed fantastic HOWLs by asking Lizzie if she wanted to help by adding features of her own. Great work Crew McGlone! ⭐️💕
An engineer in the making? 🏎️
Wade has been very busy making lots of different things in our construction area this week but his racing car blew me away! Wade explained that his car only had 2 wheels because it moved SO fast that if there were any more they would not all touch the ground at the same time. He also said that the car moved fast because it has a rocket on the top that blasts out fire and it shoots down the road! You never know, Wade might be a future racing car engineer! 🏎️
We are constructors! 👷🏼♀️👷🏻♂️
We have been extremely busy this week using our maths and problem solving skills to build towers, castles and even villages! At times, we have worked with lots of our friends to construct different things which means we have been using and building on our teamwork skills too! We’ve drawn roads, made car parks, built walls… there’s no limit to our imaginations!
CORONATION OF CHARLES III
To celebrate the coronation of Charles III and his wife, Camilla, as King and Queen of the United Kingdom, some children from Crew Boswell have created these amazing art work for their home learning. We loved sharing these in Crew ❤️🤴
Flower art 🌸
We have some beautiful blossom trees in our outdoor area in EYFS and we have noticed that some of the flowers had started to fall off and onto the playground. During our last expedition, we used small wooden hammers to create flower art so we decided to get them out and use the blossom to make beautiful pictures.
We added glue to our paper before choosing our flowers and using the hammers to flatten them onto our paper, making sure they were well stuck down. The final pieces looked really pretty!
Whilst we were doing this activity, we spotted a huge bee taking a break on the flowers we planted last half term. We looked carefully at how it was moving, making sure that we didn’t get too close and frighten him. We noticed that it was wiggling it’s body, trying to get lots of pollen stuck to it. We left some sugary water nearby in case it needed more energy to continue finding pollen. 🐝
