P1B have been making spring collages and now are making drawings of their imaginary island.
Chicks
We had a very exciting day on Friday as when we arrived in the morning 5 of our bantam eggs had hatched. Over the morning another one hatched. We are looking forward to seeing how they grow and change.
Curriculum Information – Term 4
Please have a look at all the different things we will be learning about during term 4. If you have any questions do get in touch.
As the weather improves we will be spending more time outside so you may want to apply sun screen to your child before school.
Sands of Sound ‘island’
There was great excitement when we went to the beach as finally the tide was far enough out that we were able to get to the ‘island’. When we got there the beach was huge and some of the rocks had little moats left round them by the sea. We had a huge area of sand to play on as well. In pairs we took turns to make our way in to the rocky island and have a look at the view. We loved it.
Trip to the burn
We went for a walk up the burn. It was really interesting to see hit the water travelled down towards the sea. We followed it and saw several mini waterfalls. We could great the trickling sing it was making on its journey. When e got closer to the sea we found a back bone. It was exciting to use our imagination as to what it might have been. Some hoped it was from a mermaid, some thought a dinosaur but most thought a whale or dolphin. We also saw lots of shells and pens at the stony beach where the burn flowed into the sea.
Steady Beat & Rests in Music
We have been developing our sense of steady beat and using tuned/untuned percussion to mark rests in music. Two songs that we have learned are Bell Horses and Hob Shoe Hob.
The heart above the words represents the beat of the song and we have learned that sometimes there are also gaps in music called ‘rests’. It’s important for us to count those beats and in these two songs, we’ve used body percussion and untuned percussion to show where the rests are. Below are two videos of the class singing Bell Horses with triangles and chime bars to mark the rests.
Fairy Cakes
Shield Design
P1B used collage to make a shield design at the beginning of term 3.
CURRICULUM INFORMATION
Have a look at the learning we will be doing this term. It is going to be a busy time with lots of fun things to do and experience.
Winter Wonderland Art
P1B worked hard on their winter wonderland pictures. They chose whether they wanted to have mountains or hills in their pictures and they drew their skyline in pencil.
They decided on which colour of sky they liked (either dark or light) and then mixed block paint (using blue and white) to get the shade they liked best.
Next they glued down pieces of brightly coloured tissue paper onto white card. They were careful to not let the pieces of tissue paper overlap so that the colours stayed bright.
When the paint and tissue paper was dry they cut out triangles from their brightly coloured cards to make jewel colour christmas trees. We think they look beautiful against the snowy background.
