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Introducing…

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For our Christmas Enterprise, Primary 4/5 will be designing and creating word cloud picture frames. Our fabulous company name was created by Aidan and our beautiful company logo was designed by Nicole.

Word Cloud Frames

We can personalise these so they can be given out as Christmas gifts. Names, colours, borders and shapes can all be personalised to make it very unique, all you have to do is choose your options on our order form.

Tomorrow, we will distribute order forms to Primary 4/5 only . Order forms should be completed and returned to school on Tuesday 17th November – order your frames fast before it is too late!

These frames cost only £8, we are the cheapest in town so get ordering!!

We will also have a spectacular stall at the Christmas Fayre on Saturday 28th November, where you can buy some pre-made frames, however, these will not be personalised.

Have a look at some of our designs below…

 Look out for the order forms tomorrow, thank you for all your support…HAPPY ORDERING!!

 

Kandinsky

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Today we were mixing colours with black and white to get different tones of colour.

“I enjoyed mixing colours today because it was fun.” – Eva D

“I had fun learning about a new artist called Kandinsky and his style of painting.” – Caleb

“I enjoyed Kandinsky’s circle art. He uses mixed colours and different shapes in his work.” – Briony

“It was great fun painting, my favourite part was mixing the colours.” – Aimee

“Kandinsky’s style of painting is really cool. It is called abstract. I enjoyed doing an abstract painting in class today.” – Kayleigh

Have a look at some of our finished work!

3D Robots

Today we painted our robots and now they are really coming to life! All we have to do now is paint on their features and details.

“I liked painting our robot today because it started to look realistic.” – Caiden

“I had fun painting my robot – I loved it!” – Eva S

“I had fun painting my robot and working with my partner.” – Baighley

“I liked painting the robot because it was really fun and is starting to look realistic!” – Taylor

Paper Mache Robots

Today we had great fun using paper mache to make our 3D robots strong and sturdy.

“I liked using paper mache for my robot because it was very messy!” – Innaya

“I loved doing the paper mache because it was fun and messy – afterwards my hands were very sticky!” – Kayleigh

“Today I enjoyed getting messy! The dried glue was peeling off my hands. I enjoyed making my robot stronger.” – Briony

“The paper mache was very fun. I liked sticking the paper on my robot.” – Alfie

Hopefully, tomorrow all the paper mache has dried. We will be painting on Wednesday as the Primary 5’s are out at swimming tomorrow and we don’t want them to miss out. Check our blog on Wednesday to see our robots coming to life!

This week I enjoyed…

“building the 3D robots because it was fun.” – Baighley

“adding all the 3D shapes together to create my robot.” – Taylor

“mixing colours during art because we had fun mixing primary colours on a colour wheel.” – Eva D

“learning about growth mindsets because it was fun.” – Ryan

“mixing paint. I learned about a new artist and looked at some of his paintings.” – Nicole

“building the 3D robots because I recycled all of my unwanted junk!” – Kieran

Next week we are looking forward to using paper mache to make our 3D robots strong and sturdy. After that, we will paint the robots using special metallic paint – we can’t wait!

Look back next week to see our fabulous robots!

Poetry

Today we have been learning how to write limerick poems. We wrote a poem about Rex, a dinosaur in our class. It is very silly and we had good fun thinking of rhymes.

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We are now writing our own limericks about robots.

“I enjoyed thinking of rhymes and thinking of silly sentences!” – Darby

“I had fun writing a limerick poem and writing a poem about Rex.” -Aimee

“I had fun making silly sentences and making them rhyme.” – Ryan

“It was funny seeing Rex dressed with glasses and a mobile phone!” – Caleb

3D Robots

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3D Robot Junk Modelling

Today we started to create some 3D robots using junk materials we collected from home. We used different 3D shapes for the head, body, arms and legs. We used masking tape to stick all the parts together and tomorrow we will use paper mache to make our robots stronger! We had a great time creating our robots, have a look at the pictures below!

Volcanoes Day 3

Explosive Volcanoes

Today we mixed vinegar, washing up liquid, water and red food colouring. We then added this to some bicarbonate of soda inside our volcanoes and there was a big eruption when all the chemicals mixed.

“The eruption was the best and coolest thing in the world!” – Iona

“I thought it was very cool!” – Kayleigh

“I mixed the bicarbonate of soda into the mix and it made the volcano overload with foam.” – Kieran

Have a look at our erupting volcano videos! 😀 (Videos will only play on a computer)

 

Volcanoes Day 2

Painting Our Volcanoes

On Thursday we mixed different paints to paint our volcanoes. We used brown, black and green for the base then we used red, orange and yellow for the lava.

“Our volcano looked really cool when it had dried.” – Nicole

“After the volcanoes dried they all looked very realistic!” – Ryan

“We had an excellent time making our volcano models, it was fun!” – Caiden