As we get into the Winter season, Primary 4.1 have been busy exploring the beautiful natural phenomenon called The Northern Lights or the Aurora.

This term we are studying history and learning all about The Vikings. It is thought The Vikings believed the Northern Lights illuminating the sky were the reflections of the Valkyries’ armour as they led the warriors to Odin, the God of wisdom and war.

We watched an educational video all about how the Northern Lights occur and saw beautiful footage captured over Canada and Iceland. We then accessed a Menti on Chromebooks to enter 3 WOW words to describe what we felt about the Aurora. All of our words appeared on the board in a word cloud. We have been focussing on widening our vocabulary and using a thesaurus in Literacy.

We then moved on to creating our beautiful artwork on triangle card. We applied our knowledge of watercolours to create a paint wash with the colours commonly found in the sky: blue, purple, green, red and pink. Once dry, we use fine liner pens to create details, like trees in the foreground and mountains in the background.

“If something is far away, it looks smaller.”

We enjoyed relaxing music and videos of the Northern Lights whilst we painted. We hope you like our artwork as much as we enjoyed making it!

We are happy with our finished art work. 🎨 Some of us have started to self-assess our work to highlight what we did well and what we want to improve on.