As part of our case study ‘Where did Mae Jemison’s journey take her’ we have been exploring the solar system and the work of Peter Thorpe who created space artwork. Today, we created our solar system in a bottle, some had moons, others had stars and my favourite was light!
There has been lots of construction happening this week! We’ve been making car parks, rockets, towers… all sorts! We’ve taken some inspiration from the example pictures in the construction area and we have also added our own ideas and concepts too. Olly even decided to draw his ideas out first before beginning to build his creation with Hunter. There has been lots of teamwork, resilience and trial and error – fantastic work Crew McGlone!
The weather has been beautiful this week and it has allowed us to have lots of fun outside! We also did another assault course during crew because we enjoyed it SO much last week 💪🏼
Here are just some of the beautiful creations from provision this week.
Today we have critiqued Peter Thorpe’s artwork.
“I like that the rocket is circular” Riley
“I like the colours he has used” Rose
“ I don’t like that the rocket is dark” George
I am so proud of Ameena, she followed every instruction to produce her beautiful Peter Thorpe artwork. I can’t wait to see your painting next!
This morning in crew we had the pleasure of viewing the art work of Kaylum and we have decided that children will have more opportunities to share their interests with us.
Kaylum is a budding artist and often brings in stuff for our tabletop display. He has brought in his sketchbook from home today and we are truly blown away. I’m sure you will as well.
We have set Kaylum a challenge – Can he create us a sign for our door that says Crew Shields surrounded by images that reminds him of people in the crew. Watch this space…
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.
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.
