Year 3 completed their Giacometti inspired sculptures this week. We painted them in metallic colours and evaluated them. We thought hard about what we enjoyed the most about creating the sculptures and also what we found the most difficult.
Today, we explored pollination and what it actually means. We took on the role of the insects, the pollinators and we dipped our fingers in paint (to represent the pollen). We then walked around the room landing on the different flowers (putting our painted fingertips on the flowers) to represent the insects moving from flower to flower. In the end, we could see that as we landed on a flower, we actually picked up bits of pollen (other colours of paint) from other insects (children).
Group 3 had their cookery session with Mrs Stephenson today and they made shortbread biscuits. They were great at mixing the dough and rolling it out carefully.
We had a great time today colouring, playing and making-thank you for coming to work with us!
We had a great time being mindful with you all yesterday and it was lovely to see so many of you there-we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
We designed and coloured our own patterns today, with the lights out, in silence and kept our minds in the present too-it was very relaxing!
As part of Children’s Mental Health Week, we held a ‘Wellbeing workshop’ where we invited our parents and carers along to take part in a variety of craft activities and to play some games with us. We hope it helped to calm and settle everyone’s minds.
Year 3 have continued with their sculptures this week. Today, we have covered the armatures with clay. We worked hard to ensure they were balanced and could stand up. We also used smoothing techniques to smooth over any joins so they don’t crack as they dry. Next week we will be painting them.
Year 3 have been learning about length and perimeter. To end the unit, Mrs Stephenson gave Class 10 a tricky problem solving challenge. All children were provided with a rectangular piece of card and provided with the perimeter of the card. Their challenge was to increase the perimeter without adding extra card. The children were brilliant in working out that they needed to cut the card and make more sides as this would increase the perimeter.
Today, we made cheese scones. The children found it touch to bring their dough together into a ball as it took a lot of hard work but the persevered and they looked delicious.
