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This week in the Studio Room the children have been investigating the art styles of the Spanish artist, Antoni Gaudi. He had an ostentatious style of mosaics called ā€œTrencarā€. This means ā€œto breakā€. Gaudi Ā created mosaic forms by putting together broken ceramic tiles, plates and cups.

We used some different types and textures of materials such as felt, foam, tissue paper and shiny paper. We started with some pre-cut shapes to start us off. But we soon got adventurous and used our scissor skills to create our own shapes.

We created our own ā€œtrencarā€ using these shapes to bring our creations to life.


Some of our older children could write their name on their finished art works.


Then pop them into the drying rack, to dry the glue.

We had a cup that was made in the style of Gaudi in our curiosity cube this week to show our children some 3D Art.

We were able to look at the mosaics pattern on the cup. We looked at how the lizard was made up of different shapes and colours.
We used the cup for inspiration to create our own still life drawings.

We have had a very creative, inspirational week in our Studio, learning about Gaudi and his ā€œTrencarā€ art style.
here is some of our own interpretations.
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I wonder what artist will inspire us next week……

Wednesdays are for visiting dinosaurs in far away landsšŸ™‚


Today the children decided they would like to make a story map using dinosaurs. Ā They had great fun creating different habitats for their dinosaurs to live in.ā€œ I’m writing that it’s a dinosaur world we are makingā€ ā€œ I found my same stegosaurus in the bookā€ ā€œ I’m drawing some grass for my diplodocus Ā to eat he’s hungry from walking for a long timeā€


ā€I’m drawing around the triceratops’s he’s quite bigā€ ā€œI drew a cave I wonder if my eight dinosaurs will fit in itā€ ā€œ My dinosaur is going for a swim in the pondā€

ā€œThis is my triceratops he’s going to eat the purple flower for his lunch.

ā€œOh no my dinosaur is on fireā€ ā€œThe volcano is to hotā€


ā€œIt’s okay he can go to the pond he’s not hot nowā€ ā€œ He’s going for a swimā€


ā€œThe pterodactyl is flying over his landā€ ā€œ He might fly down on his friends and eat them ā€œ The children were very imaginative with their story telling .

ā€œ I have a sonic dinosaur he is very fastā€ Ā We thought that next week we could move onto story’s about woodland animals.

 

 

Fragrant Fruits

The children have continued to use their favourite fruits chart and have been taking turns asking their friends what fruit tastes the best.

We had a discussion about what our five senses are and what body part you use for each one.

Taste ā€œ- your mouthā€, tongueā€, ā€œ I lick my lips and tasteā€
Touch – Ā ā€œwith your handsā€
Smell – ā€œMy noseā€
See – ā€œeyesā€
Hear – Ā ā€œEarsā€

We decided we could use another one of our senses to gather informationĀ using our chart. The children chose their sense of smell to try and guess what fruit was in the cup.
We prepared the fruit and put them in our paper cups and covered it with a paper towel sealed on with an elastic band.

Everyone gathered their cups and charts and went to ask their friends to smell the fruit and say what their favourite smell and what they thought it was, before making a mark onĀ the chart to record their answer. The children all had different favourites but were very good at identifying the correct fruit just from its smell.

We then all came back to the table and counted up all the marks we had gathered to see which one was the most popular.

ā€œApple has 9 it is the favouriteā€

ā€ Orange has the most on my chartā€

ā€œ watermelon had none but I like watermelonā€

We discussed our favourite smells before making a plan to use a different sense for our next fruit identification, what sense do you think we chose?

Slimy, Squishy Beans

Today in our malleable area the children enjoyed some sensory play with beans supporting brain development, and learning about the world around them.

Through this play the children are developing fine motor skills through tactile play, developing language, improving co-ordination, as well as fine/gross motor skills. Improving social skills such as communication and co-operation.

ā€œI eat beans at homeā€œ

ā€œThey’re stickyā€

We used all sorts of utensils to scoop, fill, pour, mash and weigh.

We used big spoons, small spoons, slotted spoons and watched the sauce ā€œdrip dripā€through.

ā€œI’m mushing the beansā€

ā€œTap tap tapā€

ā€œScoop, scoop, scoopā€

ā€œWow it’s slimyā€

ā€œLook it’s slippingā€

ā€œLook squishing upā€

We also had a go at balancing the scales with various degrees of success.

Exploring technology in the studio

As part of STEM week, the children have been exploring technology in the studio room by using the promethean board to create pictures.

The children were able to explore the different features of the ‘Actispire App’ by selecting different colours that they wanted to use..

”I’m using the yellow colour”

”I can pick black for my picture”

The children then used their gross motor and fine motor skills to perform different movements with their arms to create their picture on the board.

”I can do a circle”

”My picture is red and wavy like this”

”I can do a green colour on my picture”

T discovered that he could control the board by using the mouse pad on the laptop, he chose this as his preferred way to make selections for his picture.. great problem solving skills!

He then used the Ipad to take a picture of his creation all by himself.

 

Caring for our garden

Today in the Cart Mill garden Derek had a couple of helpers to check in on our seeds and see how they were coming along.Ā  Take a look at some of our seedings starting to sprout up.

We looked at the seed trays and noticed that some of the pots had more than one seed growing in it. We decided to separate these so they would have more space to grow.

We gathered everything we needed compost, seed trays and our gardening tools. Using a stick we were very careful and removed the seedling. They were very fragile so we were super careful when we separated them.

We looked at the seedling and learned about the different parts. We discussed the stem, the leaves and one of the children identified the roots.

We filled the new trays with compost ready to plant one seeding in each space. Being super careful not to break the seeding we made a hole and planted them in their new homes.

ā€œThey will get big roots nowā€

ā€œThey will have more spaceā€

Once we had planned the seeds in their new homes we watered them and placed in indoors so they are warm and ready to grow.

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What can you SEEšŸ‘€?

It’s STEMĀ  week! (Science, Technology,Engineering, Mathematics)

Following on from learning about the sense of hearing in the science area we have been talking about how many senses there are and what they all are. We found out there are 5 senses. Today we discussed which of our senses we would like to focus on, we chose sight.

The children looked through the microscope to SEE the different specimens on the micro slides.

“I can see it, it looks like a little bit of grass from the garden”

“It’s tiny stones”Ā  “Now it is BIG”

Next we did an experiment to SEE if the items we chose would Sink or Float. We discussed each item before it went in the water. We predicted whether each individual itemĀ  would float or sink, developing our critical thinking skills.

“The golf ball will sink”

“Why do you think it will sink?”

“Because it’sĀ heavy”

“The pom pom will float”

“i know, it’s not heavy, it’s lightā€

ā€I can see it sinking all the way to the bottomā€

We used our mark making skills to record our findings. The children made tally marks for each item and recorded them on a table.

ā€œ3 floated and 2 sinkedā€

For our final experiment, the children used pipettes (developing their fine motor skills and hand- eye co-ordination) to add different coloured food colouring to individual glases and then filled them up with water.

In each glass they added a paper towel so that half was in one glass and half in the one beside.

We watched as the coloured water transferred from one glass to another causing some of the colours to mix creating different colours in the empty glass.

“Look i can SEE it moving, the blue and yellow have turned green”

“They mix together”

The children have had lots of fun exploring their sight while being mini scientists.

Fun in the snow !!

What a week to spend in the garden and to finish on a Friday with SNOW!!!!!

Snow angels, using our gross motor muscles to make marksĀ  and patterns in the snow…what fun!

Rolling the tyres to watch the marks and patterns we could make in the snow.

Making a fabulous ice slide…it goes really fast!

Mark making in the snow using different resources helping our fine motor skills and creativity.

The children love being outdoors in all weathers, lets all put on our jumpers and jackets and enjoy being outside having fun together x

 

 

 

 

Outdoors fun!

This week in the garden, we have been thinking of ways to develop our physical area. We have been working as a team to come up with some suggestions to make it more challenging and interesting.

While doing this, we realised we could add some more things into our obstacle course to focus more on our balancing skills. We talked about what balancing is…

“You freeze, That helps you stay still”

“Put your arms out. That helps you not fall on your face.”

“I can balance like a statue, look!”

“I’m like a flamingo”

This sparked some conversation about being “statues” and how they don’t move because they can “balance”. Think about statues, can they move? Can the wind move a statue?

As the children were becoming more confident with their balancing skills, we explored more tricky ways to practice.

The children found many uses for the tyres in the garden, and ways we could incorporate them into our play to challenge ourselves physically using them.

“Look how super fast I can go”

“I can balance if I lift my feet up!”

“If I put these 2 in front, then that will stop it from toppling over. Look, it worked! I’m a giant!”

Great problem solving everybody!

The children also showed an interest in making their own little chalk obstacle courses too…

“I want to hop! That helps me balance”

“I’m going to do a zig zag. I want to run on it”

Then, to top off a super busy week of physical fun, we played musical statues!

I wonder what we could add into the garden next? Great work everybody!!

Creative puppets

Our children have shown a keen interest in making puppets. Today the children have been working hard in the studio creating some characters for a puppet show.Ā  We watched the puppet show The 3 little pigs before starting our own.

We discussed our characters and what they would look like then picked some resources to make them.

“I’m going to use these of his eyes”

Some of the children have chosen there favourite characters from books and some have created there own.

“I’m making a unicorn”

“I want to make a mouse. I’m going to use a small stick for my mouse, he’s little”

“this is the big bad wolf he has a big nose and ears”

“I like Pip and Posy books I’m making Pip”

Once our characters were made we wrote a story about then to act out.

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We made our stage and found some friends to come and see our show.

Everyone enjoyed the show šŸ˜€

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