After a lot of hard work, patient problem solving and determination, grade 2 finally finsihed creating their minibeast sculptures. They have to be seem to be appreciated and I hope you will look out for them living in a suitable habitat around the school in the next few weeks. Here is a little taster. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157628937368159/ Read full article »
Archives for Mini-beasts
Form and construction
Grade 2 have been working really hard over the last few weeks building their mini-beasts. Like professional sculptors they first made a small model based on their observational drawings of mini beasts. Making a model helped them to work out how they would make their large sculpture and to highlight any problems or difficult parts they might encounter when building Read full article »
Grade 2 minibeasts
Grade 2 looked at some public art this week and dicussed why artists put different sculptures in different places, how those sculpture made us feel and how they changed the places where they stood. They decided to make some sculptures for our school playground and that we could scare the other children my creating some big bugs! The children made Read full article »