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MILD: Expressive Arts: We can ‘Connect It’ with Body Percussion

Our bodies can make amazing sounds and noises. This is what Anne Meredith, a Scottish composer focuses on in her work.

For the BBC Ten Pieces she created a piece called ‘Connect It’

Here are some videos about it.

Introduction

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02flm24/player

Full Performance

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02b5cqg/player

Here is the tutorial to learn how to do it.

Tutorial

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0295j47/player

I had great fun following the simple steps and copying the people on the screen.

Now it is time to create our own body percussion piece!

Get involved and send in your audios we will put them together and create a ‘Connected’ piece of music!

Photography Challenge for All Levels National Portrait Society and Duchess of Sussex Competition.

Hold Still, a portrait of our nation in 2020, is an ambitious community project to create a unique photographic portrait which captures the spirit, mood, hopes, fears and feelings of the nation as we continue to deal with isolation and uneasy times.

The Duchess and the National Portrait Gallery invite you to submit your own photographic portrait, taken during these extraordinary times, which responds to one of the following themes:

  • Helpers and Heroes
  • Your New Normal
  • Acts of Kindness

You can find more information at : Hold Still

We would really love for you all to give this a go whether you decide to submit it or not you can always share this with your teacher.

Photography Support PowerPoint.

I’ve teamed up with a friend of mine who is a photographer in her spare time, she has very kindly created a powerpoint with some helpful tips to help support and develop your photography skills.

Top 4 Photography Tips <<<< Click Here

Miss Deans’s Photography Interests

Click the Sway below to see what Photography Miss Deans has within her home.

 

Create a Pin Hole Camera

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MILD: Numeracy – Getting in Line, with Symmetry

It is time to go on a walk, a symmetry walk.

Start out your walk indoors then head outdoors and remember to take a camera with you!

Then when you get home learn to play the line game with someone. You can use any objects as long as you both have the same.

Follow the sway to learn more.

Remember to share your learning with your teacher

MILD: Expressive Art – A Splash of Watercolour.

I have always found watercolour painting beautiful. I enjoy watching the paint spread across the water that is put down first.

It can take some time to learn how to use watercolours correctly, until I learned a little trick that can give the same effect very easily.

Follow the instructions in the sway below.

Once you have completed the activity you can use it as a back ground to stick drawings or pictures on top of. Or you could write your name, quote or phrase on top too.

Remember to share your results with your teacher through seesaw or email. Have a great time with some felt tips and water.

Feel-Good Friday – Fun with Fruit and Veg

For the final day of our Health Fortnight, I thought we could have a bit of fun.  You know how adults always tell you, “Don’t play with your food”?  Well, now’s your chance!

Today’s Feel-Good activity combines creativity with imagination AND healthy food.  Have you guessed what it is yet?

Your challenge is to make a fabulous creature using only fruit and vegetables.

Have a look!

Do remember to ask for an adult’s permission before taking any food to do this activity,  and make sure that you are being supervised if you are using any sharp kitchen utensils.

If you would like to email me photos, I can make a Sway to show everyone what you have created.  Have fun!

MILD: Numeracy: Sticking with Time

Time to combine our knowledge of both analogue and digital time.

There is a multiple ways you can review time at home as it is all around you. You can try a variety of games or if you would like some quiet time you could complete one of the worksheets.

Time worksheet

Time worksheet 1

Time worksheet 2

In the sway there are 3 simple stories that include the time can you write down the time in digital and analogue time.

 

Remember to share your work with your teacher on seesaw or through email.

Breathe In, Breathe Out – Science Activity

Boys and Girls,

It has been health week in our blog for the last 2 weeks and what amazing activities we’ve had to explore different ways to keep healthy. Have you thought what our body does while you are doing all the challenges from the grid? Well, there is an important organ that keeps your body receiving oxygen so you can keep moving around.

 Can you guess which organ I am talking about? Well done, the lungs.

Every time you do a physical activity your muscles and organs need oxygen so they can keep moving. When you breathe in, air flows through the blood going all around your body and then when you breathe out, you release it as carbon dioxide (something our body does not need). Do you know what organ pumps the blood all around our body? The heart. So every time you are running fast you will breathe fast and you will feel your heart pumping fast too, that is because they both need to keep up at the same level so you can do any activity you want.

Click the green link if you want to know more about this process, there are some activities you can do too: BBC Bitesize: How do humans breathe?

 

Do you want to see how lungs work inside us when we breathe? Let’s make our lungs then!

 

Materials

  1. 2 straws
  2. Scissors
  3. 2 plastic bags
  4. Sellotape
  5. Drawings of the lungs, mouth and nose.

 

Step 1

Tape the straws at the top and at the bottom as shown in the photo.

Step 2

Glue or double stick tape your nose and lips to the straws.

Step 3

Tape your bag to each lung, tightly so no air escapes.

Step 4

Tape your lung printable to the back of the straws. Like on the photo, now your lungs are ready!

Activities

Explore how your just made lungs work, you have to be very gentle. After you have tried them, can you explain:

  1. What happens when you breathe in (put your hand on your chest) and now try with the lungs you made.
  2. What happens when you breathe out (put your hand on your chest) and now try with the lungs you made.
  3. How do you know your body needs more air?
  4. Describe what happens to your breathing and your  lungs when doing different exercises from the grid.
  5. Comment your thoughts, write them on your learning journal or add them to your sway.

Ms Maturana

MILD: Literacy: Book Bear Club – Story Mapping

How is everyone’s Book Bears

I know they are all excellent listeners.

Thanks for sharing your book nooks they all look so lovely to sit in and read.

Something that P2 enjoy creating and are also quite skilful in reading is story maps.

Story maps are a great tool to help us remember tales and identify the most important parts of the story.

Here is a few examples from P2. You can use pictures and key words to help you remember the story.

You can chose to do your own book that you have been reading to your bear or chose one of the featured tales, The Angry Ladybird or What’s the Time.

Remember to share your story maps with your teacher on seesaw or email.

MILD: Literacy & HWB: Sky High… Ready for Lift Off!

Time for the final addition to our Photography or Drawing activity.

So far we have looked at our ambitions and our own personal qualities and skills. Much like our Health Heroes, they didn’t reach their ambition on their own they needed support.

That is our focus today…

Follow the Sway below to learn about our final addition to the project.

When you are ready you can follow the writing task, there are sentence starters provided if you would like.

Remember to share with your teachers on Seesaw, Email or comment on the blog.