Our Forest schools session this morning and for some time of this afternoon had a Maths focus with an Art theme.
ANDY GOLDSWORTY'S ENVIRONMENTAL ART
There's a famous artist called Andy Goldsworthy who creates stunning environmental Art and I think he would have been proud of our creations today.
We made a Rainbow Fish from Autumn leaves.
We discussed seasons and looked for signs of Autumn (we also hugged trees because we fancied it, it was lovely!)
We collected leaves and counted them. One group collected 81 leaves and the other had over 100 leaves!
It was windy and our leaves blew away so we took them indoors to finish our task.
We sorted them into colours- green, brown and Yellow. Some had a mixture of colours so we had to decide which colour was most prevalent.
We made a fish shape by making a circle and triangle.
Then we practised patterns with the leaves and chose which one we wanted to use to fill the inside of our Rainbow Fish.
This group chose a yellow leaf then brown leaf pattern.
This group chose a green tail and yellow and green pattern for inside.
We are very proud of our fish and celebrated by using our leaves in a fun way.
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In Language we made rainbow fish and thought of suitable adjectives to describe the Rainbow Fish. The children did it all. From drawing the fish, cutting them out, writing the words and decorating them. I think the work is amazing.
If you look carefully you can see that your children are really having a good go at emergent writing and are confident to write down the sounds they hear in words. This is a fantastic start to becoming a confident writer. It's exactly what we encourage- independent writing that builds confidence and skills.
Just keep swimming...
Shimmering, glittery, pretty, colourful, sparkly, lovely, glistening...just some of the adjectives the children suggested to describe the Rainbow Fish.
Mrs James.
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