Blog by Penny Kemp

Using Lego bricks to create prints the children experiments creating patterns, combining colours and creating pictures. They created the new colours by overlapping prints and aimed to work carefully and accurately to create their prints. 
 

The children put their understanding of colour mixing into practise to recreate their own versions of the artwork ‘0-9’ Numbers in Colour created by the artist Jasper Johns in 1958-59.
 

They looked closely at Jasper’s work deciding what the subject was (numbers and primary colours) and then…

The children investigated how to mix primary colours to make secondary ones …

Our design and technology project this half term has been learning about structures. The children have made windmills out of paper cups and showed great problem solving skills as they worked out how to stop their windmills falling over in the wind and how to construct them. So much great learning…

We have been learning how to play the glockenspiel this week in our music lesson. E have been learning a song called ‘Your Imagination’ and have begun to learn how to play instruments along to the song. 
 

The children have been using a variety of tools and learning how to measure accurately. They’ve been introduced to millimetres, centimetres and metres then explored measuring themselves. Great learning children!

Exploring length, measuring and deepening their understanding of standard measures looking if objects are shorter or longer than a metre. Lots of great discussion, comparing and learning.

Reasoning and problem solving … “l only have one metre stick, I can’t measure that it’s too big” … can…

In our ongoing science topic about materials the children have been investigating the properties of the materials. After looking at objects in our classroom they went exploring outside looking at what objects are made of, describing what the materials they are made of and questioning why they have…

The children have been exploring measuring length and height with non standard measures. Lots of great predictions, estimating, counting, comparing and discussion in their learning. 

 

Our younger children have been exploring length, drawing, measuring, comparing and learning. 
 

Exploring numbers adding and taking ten, looking at place value an deepening our understanding through lots of maths chat and team work…

We have begun investigating materials and their uses in science learning this term. The children have been looking at a variety of objects and investigating which materials they are made of and discussing why they are made out of that particular material.