Today, we had the exciting opportunity to work with author and illustrator Liz Million! Drawing inspiration from the prehistoric world, we explored the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. With Liz’s expert guidance, we brought ancient landscapes to life, creating cartoon illustrations of a prehistoric volcano erupting in the age of dinosaurs. This hands-on experience not only enriched our learning in science and history but also sparked our creativity and imagination.
Following on from our staff crew building activity, we thought the children in Crew Marsh would enjoy it too. They have now added their own masterpieces to make a beautiful collaborative piece of art work. A lovely activity outside painting, drawing and colouring real life flowers under the lovely sunshine! What a gorgeous way to celebrate Spring and Crew!
In expedition today we made seasonal soup. We worked together as a crew to gather the ingredients needed. We followed a recipe to make our soup. We used a range of different techniques cutting, chopping and measuring as well as a variety of equipment such as knifes, peelers and chopping boards. We had to make sure we were using these safely.
After all our hard work, it was time to try the soup. Some of us were initially put off by the appearance of the soup but after we gave it a try we realised it was super yummy! Some of us even had seconds!
We continuing our learning on healthy eating then designed our own healthy meal ensuring we used our knowledge on all the food groups.
Today we started to gain an understanding of the different food groups. First of all we thought about why all living things need food and we explored the word nutrition. We watched a variety of different clips on what a balanced diet is and what it includes. We used our previous knowledge on digestion too to support our discussions. Next we explored the eat well guide, thinking about what a healthy meal should be made up of. We then demonstrated our knowledge through a quick quiz. Next we continued to build background information on the food groups. We worked in mini crews to gather facts on each food group. Each person in the crew went to one of the food group information sheets in the classroom and found a fact. They brought this back and added it to to their group paper. At the end each person shared their facts to the rest of the group. From here we continued to demonstrate our knowledge, each mini crew had a go at creating their own eat-well plate. Our final activity allowed us to analyse a variety of menus, deciding if each meal on the menu was balanced or not. We thought about which meals were the most healthy and which were unhealthy. Finally we took part in a kahoot quiz to consolidate our learning!
Check out todays artwork – our portraits of inspirational people.
In expedition, we started our new DT case study by looking at seasonal food and seasonality. We started off by discussing the four different seasons and then we sorted the items into each season. We then looked at which seasons food grew best in. We sorted the pictures based on the seasonality food chart. We found this really interesting and how some fruits and vegetables are in season all year round. We also found it interesting that in winter, less fruit and vegetables are in season.
Now that Crew Hamill have completed their final paintings of Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, we have used a Padlet to share out paintings with the rest of the crew and add some critique. We have remembered to be kind, specific and helpful and to ensure we critique the piece and not the person.
In Case Study 2, we have been studying the artist Jonathan Yeo- a British artist known for his contemporary portraits of famous people. We have delved into his artwork and analysed his use of colours, tone and highlight with use of shadows. We learnt some new sketching techniques to reflect the direction of a light source on an object. We analysed use of colour- why has the author used certain colour choice, linking our knowledge of warm and cool colours. We have chosen an inspirational individual we have studied about in history and reading and started to sketch an outline. Our first drafts look pretty impressive!
Before the half term we make Valentine’s Day cards for our grown ups, we used our hands to make a flower, we also used toilet roll tubes to make love hearts! We also practiced our hand writing, look how good we’re see getting with writing our names!✍️
