The Tallest Class in Banton Primary
We have been reading The Eye of the Wolf by Daniel Pennac in class. This has lead to some research and the start of some writing.
We also too an idea from Darrell Wakelam and made our own 3D Wolves. This allowed the Biggies to use their practical and creative skills.
We might add some more detailed images once we have named our wolves.
We have been searching the playground for different creatures, and today had a go at making some of our own.
Inspired by work done in the Biggies in 2018:
And by A garden alive with art: all-natural insect sculptures
We searched the playground for natural materials and created these amazing insects.
Today we tried a new technique for drawing. Using a photo of a Buff Tailed Bumble Bee that Blair found while picking litter. We added a grid over the top and copied it onto a grid on paper. This allowed us to see proportions and sizes.
We also made some drawings on plain paper to compare.
The Biggies did a great job working with the primary 1 & 2s in our ‘makerspace’ this week. Last week they helped the wee one design a mythical creature and this week we got to tether to create cardboard versions. We shall makes these into 3D creatures in the next couple of weeks.
In maths we had a Scratch Challenge:
Josh did a great job, including working out how to use messaging to stop sprites deleting other sprites drawings:
We saw a different sort of shape with this triangle in the playground:
We are going to try and get outdoors a bit more this month. Today was a beautiful clear day with only a little wind, a good day for some leaf art.
We went out and gathered leaves of different shapes and colours for the play ground. First we created designs and patterns with the leaves, thinking about colour and shape.
After that we cut leaves in half and sketched in the other half, trying to match the veins and shade and blend colours.
The class enjoyed working outdoors and identified some of the reasons:
It felt peaceful, calm and relaxed. We had better concentration. We felt free. We could sit beside different people had more choice and enjoyed working with nature.
We will be adding all of our work to the blog soon to the Art Gallery and add links from here.
This year we have been doing some art work and we made some silhouettes and we made them all different colours. Lots of us made them different kinds of flowers and they all looked really cool.
Here is a picture of the work that we have done of the flowers.
We were thinking of the different shapes and colours and how they went together. The pictures were stuck together on black card.
We did this other piece of art when Mr. Johnston gave us a flower and we had to sketch it out. We had to draw flowers while looking at them so they had more detail.
We also made a pattern of leaves thinking about the negative shapes. 
These pieces of work are for the Banton flower show. We are going to be making one more piece of art and we will be picking out of one of them each to send to the show.
By Alex, Ellie and Luke
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