Years 1 and 2 Natural environments and objects
The children in years 1 and 2 were asked to explore the “natural environment” around them and the “natural objects and colours” within them. We explored some of the settings in the classic story “we’re going on a bear hunt” by Michael Rosen. Throughout the six weeks the children produced a selection of art work, explored various techniques, media and colour. They also built a word wall describing the different environments and used this in their story writing.
Our School grounds
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Green, mesh, twisted, woven, colourful, patterns, messy, spongy, spiky…
Lots of natural things to explore!
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Grass!
Uh-Uh! Grass! long, wavy grass!
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Swishy! Spiky! Swishy! Swashy!
We explored lots of different types of grasses in the thistle field. The children described the different grasses as… curly, twisty, straight like needles, a nest, messy, spongy, stiff, wavy and spikey!
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Grass collages
The children worked as two teams to create grass collages. They used the trimmer to created blades of grass. The children noticed if they cut the paper in a really thin strip it made the paper curly, creating a spiral.
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A natural environment!
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We looked at a famous painting… WHEAT FIELDS WITH CROWS by VincentVan Gogh. A school in a rural, farming locality, we have all experienced a glowing yellow wheat field! SWISHY SWISHY! |
Colour mixing
Year one used paint, pencils and their fingers to copy the paintings. We really got stuck in exploring colours, textures and shades.
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A masterpiece!
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Print making..
The year two’s used mini copies of the wheat fields with crows picture and pierced holes through the pictures into polystyrene tiles to make a printing block. They then painted on the appropriate colours and created a mono print.
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We were very proud!
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Uh-Uh! Mud! Thick oozy Mud.
There is a lot of mud in Scarning. The mud was… yucky!, dusty!, oozy!, dry!, hard!, soft!. Some looked like moon dust and had flecks of silver. Some looked like chocolate, a really oozy brown. We found the further you dug down the darker and wetter the mud got!
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More mud!
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| Footprints in the mud | Digging for gold | Oops! | So much fun! |
Exploring more art.
| We looked at paintings by Jackson Pollock (including “FULL FATHOM FIVE”).We thought that they looked like patterned splashes in mud. |  |
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Muddy splats and patterns! |
Big splats and what a mess!
Lots of laughter, celebrations and mess with mud balloon bombs!
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Uh-Uh! A river! A deep cold river.
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Words!
Ripple, rapids, waves, pebbles, shallow, deep weed, green, blue, reflection, sparkle, light, glitter.
Water lilies (The clouds)
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We looked at a very famous paining by Claude Monet and discussed the colours and shades within the picture. Some children could not believe that it was a painting : “It looks so real”. |
Water – ripples.
The year one children used tissue paper to create a shiny ripple effect.
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Water – smudges
The year two children used chalks to replicate the famous Claude Monet painting “Scarning style!”
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What wonderful work! We didn’t find any bears though!!
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