Glow Blogs – Shetland

If you read our blogs regularly, you’ll notice we are quite fortunate here in Fair Isle to have resident artists visiting from all around the world. Lori Deeley came here all the way from Newfoundland in Canada. She kindly came into school to teach us all about what she does. She makes her own paint from natural materials such as shell, ash and bone. We had a go at making and using our own paint using a really cool creative process involving pestle and mortar and Gum Arabic. It was so much fun. We then did some gesture drawing and …

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The children get a focused loose parts and outdoor play session on Friday mornings. The water trays with pipes, half pipes, containers and connecting parts are always popular. The skills the children demonstrate here are fantastic. They also learn how to climb and play safely in the trees together. Imaginative play outdoors creates so many opportunities for developing social skills. it is particularly important for developing and establishing new friendships amongst the children.

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Library time is a special time. The children love choosing their books and spending time looking at them with their classmates. They listen to a story which they voted for in class earlier in the day. There can never be enough stories read to children.

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The children were all familiar with the traditional tale of the Three Little Pigs and loved joining in the story with actions and voices. We read two different versions of the story and watched a short video too. The children were great at comparing the differences and similarities between the different versions of the same story. The class were then split into three different groups and worked on creating the houses that the pigs built.  Lots of communication, teamwork, problem solving and creativity were evident during this session. The houses look great and there are three little happy pig puppets

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Our plays projects this week are the sea and sloths. The bairns have been busy this afternoon and come up with some fantastic creations.

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This week we made self-portraits. Self-portraits are a half drawing of your face with your name in bubble, block or cartoon letters beside your face. Before we started Mrs Emslie showed us how to measure our paper into sections so we could draw our face in proportion. She also put on the board a step by step slide show to make it easier for us. Next, it was time to do our names. Mrs Emslie showed us how to write it in different types of fonts (I chose block writing). All of us got to work writing our names. All

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