AFRICAN PRINTING

As part of our art and DT lessons we have been printing African patterns. 

We linked our maths skills and made the patterns repeating and symmetrical.

 

We are going to add some beads and then we will photograph it and put it on the website.

Class book

We shared a book called The World in Infographics today. We enjoyed looking at how the information was presented using pictures, icons and pictograms.

We found out loads of amazing facts about animals and thought we would use some of the presentation ideas when we do our end of term topic and science assessment.

Reading Buddies

Last Friday we met up with Mr Batley's class to share books and a love of reading. 

They read their own books and then listened while they were read to.


The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves and are looking forward to meeting up again.

African Dance with Mr. Toyne

This term we have been learning African dance moves.  We have started with some basic steps inside a hoop, progressed onto dancing on different levels, using a count of eight to control our pace and rhythm and now we are using all of these things to create our own dance.  It's been great fun and totally energetic, which has helped to keep us fit.   See what you think...

Having fun with animation!

Using a new programme on the I pad, "Animate It", we have been exploring how animation films like Wallace and Gromit first started. By taking lots and lots of photos and moving an animal really small amounts each time, each pair produced a very short story of the animal moving. We all agreed that making a long film would take a lot of skill and patience.

Creating an African Dance

For the past few week we have been learning and using African dance moves to create our own fabulous class dance. The beat of the djembe drums have helped us keep a rhythm as we have rehearsed all the moves separately. . .

. .  .  so that we could combine them into a dance routine involving the whole class.

African Art

We have used many different skills to recreate these African images. We have used sponges to paint with, pastels as well as cut and stick.

African Dance

After weeks of training we have finished an African dance...

Check it out...
https://goo.gl/Rw5TyF

African Art

We have been busy with African art work this past term. 

First we had to colour wash a background and then we added our African figures. We are really proud of the final results and they all look great in the classroom. 

African warriors and a villager

African ladies dancing

Well done! You should all be very proud of yourselves!

African Dance

We have been learning some African dance. Click on the links below to see what we have been up to...


https://goo.gl/Zn0U9c


https://goo.gl/Zn0U9c

Olivia came to visit

We were very lucky to have a visitor yesterday. Olivia, from Rainbows, enjoyed playing Phonics Play games and practising her Phase 4 sounds. 

Beatrice's Goat

Today we have been working in pairs and threes to generate sentences about Beatrice's Goat (a book we have been reading in Literacy). 

We had to think carefully about the vocabulary we were using and work together to add conjunctions and extended noun phrases.