Today, rather than posting a Sway, I’m going to share some art activities from the National Galleries of Scotland.
Each week, throughout the lockdown, they have been posting ideas for creative projects for children, including mud painting, spiral finding, map drawing, and bangle making.
Click on the link to find out more. Don’t forget to take photos of your artwork and tell your teacher how you got on!
Have fun!
Yes, teachers have been able to go back into school to prepare for when we all return. Mr.Mutch and Mr.Reid actually saw each other, without the Green Screen.
When they took a break they realised they didn’t have much to do. As most places were closed or that we had been told to avoid. So after a short discussion the teachers had an idea.
Your challenge this week is to go on a race following clues around Methlick. You start when you find the location of your first clue. Start the timer when you set off to find clue two.
Remember to take a selfie with the card at the final destination and send it in to your teacher. We will create a video of everyone taking part and send it out next week.
Where will you place on the Leader board?
If your child has access to their Sumdog account, they can take part in our whole school competition.
The competition starts at 9am today and will finish on Friday at 3.15pm.
The teaching staff will keep an eye on the leaderboard and can offer coins to their class for encouragement!
Congratulations to last week’s winner – Alexander P6
Good luck!
To get in the mood watch these videos below of Ariel Footage from around Scotland by Edinburgh based film maker, John Duncan. You can explore the 3 videos plus look at the 100 places in Scotland video, how many have you visited? If you are interested in film making look at his website to see how he filmed these amazing videos.
Click Here to visit his website.
Remember, we all believe that having a growth mindset is very important so the activities are organised into the following levels.
Let’s leap into the learning pit and learn from our mistakes to achieve GREAT things! The teachers will be sharing their attempts and offering support too.
Keep checking the blog, please leave COMMENTS and send your work to your teacher via email/Seesaw or add to your Sway so that we can stay connected.
For this Friday’s creative challenge I was inspired by Mrs Fraser’s assembly on different types of art, also by a comment that Hayden made on the blog.
Today we are going to be creating pictures using small stones and pebbles. The subject of your picture is entirely your choice – it could be your family, your cat or dog, birds, flowers – anything!
Click on the Sway to find out more …
Don’t forget to take photos of your artwork and send them to your teacher or to me, so that I can make a gallery on Sway to show your creations to everyone. Have fun, and have a great weekend.
Today is the day! You have been sending in your dance videos all week and the staff have been working on something as well.
Mrs.Fraser will send out a link to you all through Seesaw to allow you to view the video privately.
Thank you to everyone who took part. We hope you enjoy laughing, smiling and dancing along to our Community Dance Video!
Happy Friday Everyone 🙂
Mrs Still has continued on her photo Methlick Quiz, how many can you recognise?
Let us know how you get on!
Hello all!
They both really enjoy their music and even have their own band called The Bubble Rats.
You can listen to two of their songs by clicking on the following link – https://thebubblerats.bandcamp.com/
Emily wrote and sang all the lyrics herself to the song “Me to you” – Harry sings the backing vocals on “The Bubble Rat Shuffle”. All the voices you will hear are theirs and their dad plays all the instruments.
If you have been playing any music during your Home Learning, we would love to hear about it! Let us know in the comments.
Hopefully you have spotted the RSPB activity on the grid by now. If not here is my effort to inspire you to enter. The great news for this activity is that anything goes!! There are two options in more detail below but both have the same idea to “Create a piece of art inspired by nature.” There are 3 age categories – under 8s, 8-12, and 13 years and over.
See the link for the fine detail on entering here – https://bit.ly/2ziDH4a
If you want to create and not enter that is perfectly fine too, remember to share with your teacher any work and please ask a parent for help to enter the competition as teachers are not able to do this for you. Remember to always check it is safe to use items around the house before you start.
Option 1 – ‘REAL LIFE’ – entries using the more traditional approach of paints, pastels, acrylics, pens or pencil.
Here is my effort inspired by some wild flowers we collected during our daily walks. For this activity I used some watercolours which take a little getting used to and some thicker paper than normal as the water can make the page soggy.
Our wild flowers collected on our walks and from our garden. We have a small flower press but this can be done using newspaper and some heavy books.
My effort of drawing some flowers, we used the time lapse function to speed it up.
The painting part, this will be revisited to blend colours and layer. It takes a little effort to get this right so maybe try on scrap paper first.
Option 2 – ‘GO WILD’ for those of you who want to ‘go wild’. To enter this category you can use non traditional items and experiment with textiles, sculpture, recycled materials or a combination of more than one to add to a collage.
Here is a wonderful collage from Finlay in P3, he shared this with me to inspire others to enter too.
Fantastic detail and different textures used.
Or for those of you that like to junk model here is another idea from another P3 (my youngest daughter) using recycled items and then painted.
I look forward to seeing some ‘Wild Art’ – good luck all.
