Daisy Class Blog

Date:

8 September

Posted by:

Mrs Brady

We Are Artists: Exploring Mark Making Techniques

For their Hook Day, the Year 2 children enjoyed dressing up as artists and getting really creative! They learnt different ways to make marks, using a range of materials. They created patterned surfaces to explore texture and add detail to their drawings.

H- I liked drawing with charcoal. It is burnt wood from a willow tree and you can make light grey marks and thick black marks.
T- I’d never used graphite before. I drew thin lines and thick lines with it.
L- We learnt how to do make lots of different marks, like cross hatching, stippling and squiggling.
E- We felt the textures of different objects like feather and shells.
S- I liked using paint and making marks with feathers, sticks, straws and Lego bricks. We made all our marks look like different textures.
M- I liked listening to the story called ‘Paddington the Artist.’ Paddington was a good painter.
E- It was fun to dress up and look at famous paintings in the art gallery online.

Date:

6 September

Posted by:

Mrs Smith

Hook Day

Year 1 enjoyed a special ‘Elmer Day’ on Friday as a start to learning about friendship and individuality.
We read Elmer the book by David McKee and learnt that we are all special as individuals. We also learnt that friends are so important.
Our activities included: making Friendship Flowers, making friendship bracelets, painting Elmer for a display, designing our own elephant celebration outfits and creating a long paperchain in Elmer’s bright colours. We had a fantastic day.

Pupil 1: It has been the best day!
Pupil 2: I brought an Elmer book to school and we shared the story.
Pupil 3: I loved threading beads to make my bracelet.
Pupil 4: We get to take our bracelet home!

Look at our photos to see the fun we had.