Friendship Week

This week we have focused on the theme of friendship, to tie in with Valentine's Day on 14th February.

We read stories about love and friendship.

We made heart shaped baskets to hold a surprise for a special person.  When they were finished, we put two sweets inside each basket and took them home to share.

We drew pictures of our friends and wrote messages to them, to let them know what we liked about them.

 We made some delicious biscuits.  We mixed the ingredients together, rolled out the dough and cut heart shapes out.  When they had been baked we decorated them and took them home to eat!

 A Friendship Song to Sing

Red Riding Hood

This week we have been learning the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  Here is a video of the story.

We acted out the story - here is Little Red Riding Hood talking to the wolf!

We cut out the characters and made scenes from the story.

We painted characters from the story.  Here is a picture of Red Riding Hood.

We learned the story and made our own books, sorting the pictures into the right order and saying what we could remember about what was happening.

Art Week

This week the whole school has been very busy with art week.

On Monday Nursery worked together with Reception Class and Year 1 to create three different pieces of large scale art. 

On Tuesday we looked at pictures painted by Vassily Kandinsky.  

 We thought about the shapes and colours that he used.  Then we tried different ways to make our own versions of his work.

We tried cutting out circles and sticking them on top of each other.

                                               

We printed different sized circles of different colours

We practised pencil control, drawing lines and shapes with crayons and felt-tipped pens.

                                        

We made some very messy paintings, using string dipped in paint, to create interesting lines and shapes.

We used collage to try to recreate the circle patterns that we had seen.

Some children tried to copy Kandinsky's style, using brushes and paint.

Here is a picture of the finished wall display for our work.  We hope you like it!