We have been really busy this term doing lots of fun things for Christmas. We have all worked so hard on our Nativity performance. Everyone look fantastic in their costumes and they all used their switches independently at the appropriate time too! We have been doing lots of Christmas crafting and Christmas cooking. We made truffles, Christmas bark, melted snowman biscuits in our cooking groups. We made some lovely decorations, calendars and Christmas cards and coasters in Art. All the children enjoyed our Christmas music and movement group, everyone liked the Christmas songs, ribbons, bubbles and the parachute. We hope you all have a lovely Christmas and Happy and healthy New Year. See you in 2025!
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Toy Appeal
We have been very busy over the last few weeks in Lammermuir. We have been collecting toys for River Kids toy appeal so that children all over West Lothian will have a toy to open this Christmas. Thank you to everyone who kindly donated. Our class went and delivered all the toys this week and then went to Dobbies afterwards to look at all the decorations. We enjoyed looking at all the lights, smelling all the festive scents and feeling lots of different textures.
Elmer
Our topic is Elmer the Elephant this term. We have been doing lots of fun activities linked to the book. We read an interactive version of the story and all the children enjoyed feeling the animals and using the switch.
We have done some messy play activities with colourful rice, ice cubes and pom poms! Everyone explored the different textures and colours really well. In art we made our very own Elmer using milk cartons and tissue paper, we also used colourful paint in lots if ways to make some wonderful pieces of art. We explored paint, pens and crayons in theses activities.
We did a little science experiment with skittles and watched all the colours spreading around the plate and we played with coloured ice cubes and watched the colour mixing as the melted too! We have been exploring colour in our colour group too, the children enjoyed choosing different items to explore in this group.
What a fun topic this has been!
Exploratory Art Sessions
We have had some great fun during our exploratory art sessions. Lots of classes have been coming along each week to try out different ways to mark make on paper. This term we have focused on paint! We have explored various methods of mark making using paint.
The first week we used stampers in paint, we had all different kinds of stamps and made different marks and patterns. Some children enjoyed using their hands to mark make too.
On week two we used a salad spinner to spin the paint around and make lovely patterns. We also did some splat painting, which was messy but fun!
The third week we made the first letter of our name using masking tape and then used various colours of paint and paintbrushes to paint all around it. It looked really cool when we peeled of the tape when they were dry to reveal the letter!
Week four we used string to dip into paint and drag along the paper. Everyone’s picture looked different and really effective.
Last week we used cars and animal toys to make tracks and prints on paper and everyone really enjoyed it.
Well done to all the boys and girls who came along and participated so well in the sessions. Some fabulous art work was created in the process!
Linda
Hopetoun Art and Turn Taking
Comic Relief 2021 (Article 27- Every child has the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their developmental needs
Lommond and Hopetoun
It’s so good to be back seeing all the children’s happy faces around school. I am teaching in Lommond and Hopetoun this year. Whilst I have been there we have been doing lots of art activities. This term we are working alongside the topic of story land. We have been learning about Elmer the Elephant. We used lots of coloured squares and glued them onto an elephant template. The children enjoyed looking at all the bright colours and choosing where to put them on their elephants.
We also done some printing with bright colours using blocks to look like Elmer’s patches. We made ‘you-nique’ pictures that are all different with a picture of ourselves in the middle. The children loved getting messy with the paint!
We have been learning the story about the Tiger who came to Tea too! We made some lovely tiger faces using orange tissue paper and black card.
We enjoyed listening to the Story ‘We’re going on a Bear Hunt’. The children made sensory pictures using various materials for each of the locations in the story. Long wavy grass, a snowstorm, a forest, oozy mud, a river and then finally….. A BEAR!!! The children enjoyed feeling the different materials and textures and sticking them on to create their own story.
It has been lovely also being part of the daily routines such as snack and lunch time and other activities that take place on a Wednesday and a Thursday.
Linda
