Tag: Expressive arts

Our Trip To The Kelpies

Today we went on our first school trip to the Kelpies. We went on the bus to Falkirk. Our tour guide was called Jennifer.  She took us a walk up to the Kelpie statues and she told us lots of information about the Kelpie legend and the man who created the sculptures.

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Jennifer told us that a man called Andy Scott created the Kelpies.  He decided to create Kelpies because horses used to help pull the boats along the canal.  Jennifer showed us photos of two Clydesdale horses. One was called Duke and one was called Barron. This is also the name of the Kelpies.  A good way to remember which one is which is to think Duke has his head down so the other one must be Barron.

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We played a game with Jennifer. We used our bodies to make sculptures of either Duke or Barron.  Look at our pictures and see if you can tell who we are all trying to be.

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Jennifer took us through a magic door and inside the sculpture of Duke.  When we were inside we learned lots of facts about the sculptures. We all lay down on the floor so that we could look up and see how big the sculpture was.

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We all had a great time on our school trip!

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Andrew – We liked going inside the Kelpie and it has helped us with our artwork this afternoon.

Adam – We learned that the statues of the Kelpies are 30 metres tall.

Ewan – I learned that 100 elephants are the same weight as one of the statues.

Rebecca – I had great fun this morning.

Conor – I liked when we went inside, we found a horseshoe.

Jason – I learned that the water next to the Kelpies is called a Canal.

Eva – The Kelpies are made out of metal.

Lewis – The Kelpies were made out of a metal called Steele.

Niamh – My Dad brought the statues of the Kelpies into the school.

Erin – My favourite part was when we went inside the Kelpies and we lay on the floor.

Ryan – It was fun going into the Kelpie and seeing all the parts that it is made of.  I liked when jennifer played a game of true or false with us.

Thank you to Jennifer and all the staff at Falkirk Community Trust at Helix park for making our visit so fantastic!

Our Kelpie Visitors

This morning two Kelpies arrived in P1/2. These Kelpies are little models but they are exactly the same as the ones that we are going to visit on Thursday in Falkirk.image image image image image image image imageimage

The Kelpies is the last legend that we will be learning about for our Scotland Topic. In this story the water monsters come out and they look like beautiful, black horses but they are evil. We know that this is just a legend and that these monsters are not real!

Some other people in the school have been excited to see our Kelpie models. P1 came for a visit this afternoon and they really liked our models. Mrs Woodward, Mrs Hadden and Mrs Ross have also been in to see these amazing models. The Kelpies will be in our classroom until Thursday afternoon if anyone else would like to visit.

Erin – They felt soft.

Lewis – Inside the mouth of the model it was hard and rough.

Caiden – They are hard. I think they might be made out of metal bits.

Ayva – I think the models are nice.

Conor – The model is a little bit rough and bumpy.

 

Scottish Myths and Legends

We have been learning about Nessie as part of our Scottish myths and legends topic.  We watched a video all about whether the Loch Ness Monster was real or not.  We found out that nobody know if the Loch Ness monster is real.  In the video we seen a picture of Nessie neck and head but other people in the video said that this could have been an elephant swimming when the circus came to Scotland.  Another scientist said that Nessie could be a kind of dinosaur.

After our class discussion each of us drew a picture of what we think Nessie looks like.  We had to write a sentence to say whether we thought Nessie was real or not.  Everyone in our class thinks that Nessie does exist.

We made pictures of Nessie.  We used ink mixed with water to make a sky and water.  We made our water look real by dripping ink onto our pictures and then sprinkled on some salt.  The salt made the ink look bigger some of us thought it looked like the salt made the ink grow.  Mrs Noble cut out silver paper to make Nessie.  We put the silver paper onto special bumpy paper.  We used our thumbs to run back and forward to make Nessie look like she has scale.  We put a googly eye on our pictures to finish them off.

Eva – Making our Nessie pictures was fun.

Daniel – I learned that Nessie might not be real.

Rhys – It was fun putting the scales onto Nessie.

Symmetry

This week we have started to learn about symmetry.  We found out that butterflies are symmetrical and so are our faces.  For something to be symmetrical there needs to be the same on both sides.  Ewan explained that if you draw a line down a face there would be half a mouth, half a nose and one eye on both sides.

Today we worked in pairs.  We designed one half of a butterfly and then our partner had to try to complete the other side to make the butterfly symmetrical.

Caiden – I know that a circle is symmetrical.

Ryan – I know that a snowball is symmetrical.

Benjamin – Doing the symmetrical pictures was fun.

Rhys – The butterfly activity was fun because I got to work with Caiden.

We are looking forward to making some symmetrical Christmas decorations for our classroom.

Scottish Book Awards Week 2!

This week we have been looking at a book called Robot Rumpus and we think it is super funny. One of our tasks was to design our own robot to help around the house.  This book was a rhyming book and we became word detectives to find set of rhyming words. Some of us created robots for our homework task using 3D shapes from home and shared these with the class.

Ewan – I like the story because it is funny when the Mum and Dad screamed.

Dionne – It was tricky to write a book review about our favourite part because so many bits of the book are funny.

Niamh – I think Robot Rumpus is great fun.

Our Class Post Office

On Tuesday we worked as a whole class to create our very own post office in our classroom.  P1/2 are going to to be Chryston Primary’s Christmas Posties. We will be sorting and delivering all of the Christmas Cards to the classes this year. We made signs for our post office.  We decorated our Christmas post box. We sorted out a special basket for each class. We wrapped lots of parcels.  We noticed that all of the parcels were different kinds of 3D shapes.

Caiden – I liked decorating the post post.

Lewis – I think all the children worked hard to make our post office.

Conor – I liked wrapping the presents and choosing a bow for mine.

Niamh – I liked puting the wrapping paper on the parcel. It was easy because Jason helped me.

Our Artwork for the School Art Show




This week we have painted animals. We created artwork of animals because that is what Angela Davidson likes to paint.  Yesterday we painted cows and today we painted tigers. First we painted grass using paint brushes. Next we dipped our hands into the paint to make the body and the legs of our animals. Then we added heads and tails using our fingers.  It was important to give our pictures time to dry.  Next we used black pens to add in patches, stripes and faces for our animals.  The last thing we did was stick on our google eyes.  This artwork was a little bit messy but some of us helped to wash the paintbrushes and the paint trays.

Erin- I liked making the hand prints because I dipped my hand in he paint and it got all orange.

Andrew- I liked puting the black pen on the pictures because it was fun.

Niamh- I liked puting the stripes on my tiger because it was fantastic.

We are really looking forward to showing all our family and friends our artwork next Friday at our art show and are also looking forward to the other children in the school seeing it too.

Literacy Across Learning Week in P1/2

This week is our literacy across learning week.  P1/2 are focusing on their literacy and using it to help them to find out all about an artist.  Yesterday we started to learn about Angela Davidson.  We found out that her pictures always have animals in them.  She taught herself to paint.  We think that her pictures look like real animals.  She is a Scottish artist and she lives in Aberdeen.  The first picture that she sold was a picture of cows’ noses. She lives with her husband and her son Lawrie.  When Lawrie was little, Great Ormond Street Hospital saved his life.  Angela Davidson gave £9000 to the hospital from selling a painting of Lawrie riding a horse.

Dionne – I am looking forward to painting animals

Lewis – I am looking forward to painting wild animals the same as Angela Davidson.

Ryan – I am looking forward to trying to colour the animals using paint.

Eva – I am looking forward to seeing more of this artist’s pictures.

We are all looking forward to seeing what the other classes are getting up to this week.  We will update our blog later in the week to let you know what we have been learning.

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