During this week the children have began the next stage for their final products. We learnt how to mix colors creating the desired effect for our skin tones, so they are ready for the next step using shapes to create our facial features. We are so excited to see how these portraits will look within our banner.
During our current expedition Marvelous me, we have been working very hard in crew Frost learning how to create a self portrait, as you can see the children have been learning how to use shapes to form the features of their face, such as a circle for the face, lines for eyelashes and hair. Whilst developing new language such as “dot or wavy” for the nose and lips. The children have particularly liked learning our little parrot rhyme to help our pen grip. We cannot wait to see all the images brought together in our celebration of learning!
Continuing with The Colour Monster in our expedition, crew Frost have been exploring their own feelings, and choose a colour monster to represent it. We explored why we might feel this way and all feelings are ok and there are ways to change them. Now we are building strong knowledge on our emotions we are ready for our feelings check in’s!
In our current expedition Marvellous Me, we are learning how are we the same and how are we different? We have been very lucky to celebrate some children’s birthdays in our class, thanks to our grownups bringing birthday cakes in for their child’s birthday. We have discovered today that we all have a birthday and at different times and what other ways we might choose to celebrate the occasion. It has also helped build our British Values giving our children a sense of belonging, mutual respect, and celebrating our diversity. We can’t wait for more in crew Frost.
For the past two weeks Crew Frost have been looking at the story Owl Babies in our afternoon expedition, during this session the children were introduced to play dough, their task was to make their very own baby owl. The children particularly enjoyed using feathers and googly eyes to represent the features on their owls, whilst strengthening their fine motor muscles by pinching, splatting and rolling the dough. Well done Crew Frost.
Today crew Frost have been starting their learning journey on the colour monster. We have began to recreate the confused monster whilst using creative materials to express our thoughts on what it means to be confused. Crew Frost had outstanding fine motor control when painting him! Well done crew Frost!
This week the children have been creating story maps about the gingerbread man, from this they have created their own versions how the gingerbread man crossed the river “he could use a surf board” and “he could use a jet pack”. We turned these ideas into drawings and sentences remembering our capital letters, finger spaces, and full stops.
This week, Crew Wilkinson have been inspired by the charcoal works of Henry Moore and began practising using charcoal for artwork. We have been smudging, stippling, hatching and using a rubber to create lighter details like the light from a headlamp. This work will support us in creating our final art piece which will form the front of our lapbooks.
For our story in expedition, we decided to make our own little pigs. We used pink icing with some marshmallows and googly eyes.
we enjoyed eating these as much as we did making them!
Our new book for expedition is ‘The three little pigs’. The children have been reading the story and learning the sequencing. We have looked at the different types of materials the houses were made with and which is strong enough to withstand the big bad wolf!
