Category Archives: Expressive Arts

Amazing Aliens

Posted on May 19, 2011 by kpearce

Primary 2P have been busy making aliens to live on the planet near our space station. Have a look at some of the finished products of today’s art session.

Posted in Alien Story Writing, Expressive Arts | 2 Comments

National Galleries Art Competition

Posted on May 7, 2011 by kpearce

This week we completed our class’ group entry to the National Galleries art competition. The theme was celebration and we drew inspiration for our work from Joan Eardley’s Children and Chalked Wall 3. Pupils created characters in pairs, with pupils … Continue reading →

Posted in Expressive Arts | Comments Off on National Galleries Art Competition

Making Beautiful Music with Mrs Payne

Posted on March 18, 2011 by kpearce

This week we enjoyed our third session learning songs with our Music Specialist Mrs. Payne. Can everyone think of something yellow to contribute to the song ‘What is yellow?’ next week?

Posted in Expressive Arts | Comments Off on Making Beautiful Music with Mrs Payne

Learning about Wiggly Worms

Posted on March 16, 2011 by kpearce

  As part of our Growing Topic we are learning about earthworms. On Monday we read an interesting text about earthworm biology on our interactive whiteboard. We practised scanning to find key words and highlighted them. We watched a short … Continue reading →

Posted in Expressive Arts, Literacy, Science | 1 Comment

Our Learning This Week

Posted on March 4, 2011 by kpearce

Jack and the Giant e-book We have now sold 76 copies of our own e-book, with all profits going to support the important work of Save the Children. In class this morning we posted on the Amazon thread to say … Continue reading →

Posted in Expressive Arts, Forest School, ICT, Literacy, Numeracy, Science, Storyline | Comments Off on Our Learning This Week

This Week in P2P

Posted on February 25, 2011 by kpearce

This has been a busy week in our classroom. We have begun the second part of our Jack and the Beanstalk topic, GROWING, which focuses less on the characters and more on the beanstalk. Our Garden Centre role play area … Continue reading →

Posted in Expressive Arts, Literacy, Science | Comments Off on This Week in P2P

Counting Beans and Creating Jack’s World

Posted on January 13, 2011 by kpearce

  Today the Squares Numeracy group worked together in pairs to count  beans. They decided that it would be fastest to count them in twos and worked out how to arrange them to count them easily. Today we also started building the … Continue reading →

Posted in Expressive Arts, Literacy, Numeracy | 1 Comment

Learning about Houses and Homes

Posted on December 23, 2010 by kpearce

Now that I am becoming more confident with using Word Press, hopefully you will see more whole class blog entries. My goal is that next term children will be able to add their own words to the blog themselves. With … Continue reading →

Posted in Design Technology, Expressive Arts, Forest School, Literacy | Comments Off on Learning about Houses and Homes

Sensational Snowmen

Posted on December 10, 2010 by kpearce

Following on from the snowmen we made yesterday and a piece of writing we did this morning, today we painted close-up portraits of snowmen. We talked about the shapes that we can see in a 2D snowman. We used black oil … Continue reading →

Posted in Expressive Arts, Literacy | 1 Comment