Firework Art

Leading on from our discussions about Bonfire Night and then Diwali, the children have had the opportunity, in the art and craft area, to contribute to a display featuring fireworks which are central to both celebrations. No doubt it won’t be the first time this term that we have glitter everywhere but we think that the children have thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with various sparkles and stars to create their own bonfires.

Click then click again on photos to see the artist’s name.

Thank You

Thank you very much to all those who contributed to our “Children In Need” day. You raised £57.28, as part of a grand total of £269 from Hecklegirth Primary and Nursery, to send to this very worthwhile charity. Photos will follow soon of some of the children in their “Children In Need” outfits.

Bonfire Night

Throughout last week the children have explored Bonfire Night through a series of activities with Miss Palmer. These activities also aimed to give the children freedom and options to promote creativeness.

Overall I have enjoyed carrying out all these activities with your children, the children have also had lots of fun learning about Bonfire Night through art and crafts, role play and discussions.

The activities included a ‘firework’ sensory activity with foam, glitter, lots of colourful letters which had allowed the children to practice writing letters of the alphabet.

The next follow on activity allowed the children to carry out role play at our ‘bonfire’ tray.

Recycling cardboard tubes, the children created their own ‘firework’ paintings.

Using their measuring skills, the children made play-dough and created ‘firework’ shapes.

The children used their hands as their main tool to create colourful ‘firework’ paintings.

Taking our learning outdoors, the children got creative ‘splatting’ lots of colourful paint on to one big art work piece.

Finally, several aspects of the activities were brought together to display the children’s work. The children loved seeing their hand prints all put together to create one big ‘bonfire’.

Art Gallery

The art area is a place for the children to experiment with a range of materials and express their ideas when they create their works of art. Tearing paper has benefits in helping to develop the children’s muscles and fine motor control but, above all, it allows everyone the opportunity for success and to experiment with colour, shape and size to create their unique piece of art. We hope that you all enjoy this wonderful gallery of their individual pieces of artwork.

Click then click again on the photos to see the names of the artists.

War Memorial

Just like many other groups of children and adults over the past week, we talked about why we have Poppy Day and the children have begun to understand what it is about. As part of our learning some of the children took a walk to the war memorial at the end of last week to see for themselves what their local community has to remember those who died.

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