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Art Lesson

In Art P5 have been learning about the artist Eric Carle and trying to create mini beasts using his textures collage technique.

First, we researched and designed our mini beast before deciding on a shape.

We then explored paint and used different applicators to create different textures.

The following week we cut shapes, layered and collaged to create our mini beast.

To finish them off we used pipe cleaners and oils pastels.

Great work P5!

Visit to Taing House – Inter-Generational Activity

We visited Taing House Day Care on Friday.  We were invited along to make garden ornaments with the service users.  We chose our equipment and created our own tin person.  We met new people and family members and enjoyed juice and biscuits too!  We focused on our communication and creativity meta skills.  It was fun!  As a thank you, we wrote letters to Mrs Friedlander and her team.  We’ve been invited back, hopefully leading up to Christmas time.  We’re looking forward to that.

 

Welcome to Primary 5!

Hello!

I’m excited to be teaching Primary 5 this year!  Hope everyone has had a nice Summer break.

Just thought I’d let you know when our specialist teachers visit P5:

P.E. – Mondays

Music – Wednesdays

Art – Thursdays

Teacher Led P.E. – Tuesdays

Curriculum Information will be available by the end of the week.

Miss Smith

 

 

Music and Storytelling

This term in music, P4 have been learning about how music can tell a story and the important role it plays in enhancing a story by driving the plot, revealing characters or expressing a theme. We listened and appraised four different songs from four different Disney animations and we concluded that music was an essential element in each film. Without music, there would be no story!

In the clip below, you can see the class reading and performing the rhythms of crotchets (ta), quavers (ti-ti), crotchet rests (shh) and whole rests (shh-shh-shh-shh). They not only had to understand and play the rhythms, they also had to read and perform drum notation.

Here is a link to the play along that we used:

And here is our class performance: