This afternoon we have been practising our cutting skills whilst making a couscous salad.
I can cut veg!
Category : Art and DT
XP Outdoor crew
Crew Marsh loved creating artwork using nature… look at our smiley faces!
Crew Mcloughlin artists✍🏻
Today we have started our first draft of our artwork for our final product. To say these are our first drafts we are very proud of our beautiful work already! We had three groups: some children decided to draw a mic with the help of Miss Taylor (to represent MLKs speech) which was for children less confident with art, the next group worked step by step with me to draw George Floyd and the last group lead their own learning by pushing for 4 and challenged themselves to follow an online tutorial drawing Martin Luther King.
Art continues in MI
MI have shown such resilience and determination today during our art sessions. We finally learnt and started to understand that art is a long process and we need to ensure we take our time to ensure we create quality pieces. MI have certainly shown this today. We have used a step by step process to create our Martin Luther King Jr images and children were super proud at the end of the day. We will just add further sketching techniques tomorrow to finish off our creations. We will then move onto looking at Rosa Parks 🙂 Great work MI!
MI start case study 3
Today we started our art case study where we explored and used a range of sketching techniques. First we looked at and used different sketching pencils thinking about tone and how different pencils do this. We then explored tone further by thinking about the pressure we apply to our pencil. After this we looked at 7 different sketching techniques and had a go at practising these. From he we researched the artist Edgar Degas, thinking about the type of artist he is and the different pieces of art he created. The final part of the lesson allowed us to apply all the features we had learnt to a Edgar Degas image. We tried to use some of the techniques we had practised earlier in the lesson.
Becoming little chefs 👩🍳🧑🍳
To build on our knowledge from our previous lesson, where food comes from, today we looked at what makes up a balanced diet and compared this to our diets. We explored different food groups: carbohydrates, protein, vegetables and fruit, dairy and fat. Charlie then came up with an idea that we could source and produce our own lunch. We created our own healthy lunches ready to make 🧑🍳👩🍳 Mr T kindly brought us some passion fruit, papaya and coconut to try 🥥 it was very tasty!
Where does our food come from?
During our DT case study, Crew Godley have been exploring where their food comes, we have learnt so much. we cant wait to create our own healthy plates 🐷🐮🌳🌾
Life cycles of plants and trees 🪴🌿🌳
We have been discussing the life cycles of plants and trees within our expedition lessons. we used pictures to order the life cycle of a sunflower before using natural materials to show the life cycle of a sycamore tree.
Pancake Day 2023 🥞
A little late in posting due to technical difficulties, but Crew McGlone celebrated pancake day in the best way… by making pancakes and decorating them with lots of yummy toppings! They were delicious, thank you to Mrs Gilliland for helping us making the pancakes.
Observational drawing 🌸🌿✏️
In Crew McGlone we have been drawing flowers, thinking about the shapes and colours we can see. We have been trying super hard!
