Now that we have a Rainforest in our school we needed some animals! So we worked in pairs to plan how we could make a realistic 3D model of a Rainforest animal. It was very tricky but we managed it in the end. We then hid our Animals around our classroom. Next to our animals we now [...]
The waterfall was made out of paper mache as the rocks , strips of tissue paper as the blue water , cardboard boxes to make it look 3D and bubbles at the bottom.
The waterfall group enjoyed making it because it was a messy job and it was also very fun, it also got us out of work a couple [...]
We are still working very hard to transform our classroom into a living rainforest. We have also written our veryown story books about a Secret Forest. You can see them hanging on the wall in our class.
We built a tribe hut in our classroom. We had to do a lot of problem solving to decide how we would construct it and it took team work to build it. What do you think?
We have been using our research skills to find relevant and interesting facts about the Rainforest. Then we have been recording these facts in our own words to create a factfile. Did you learn anything new from our factfiles?
For the past few weeks, if you have been in our near our classroom, you may have noticed some changes. We have been secretly transforming our classroom into the Amazonian Rainforest. So far we have experimented with lots of art materials to make leaves and draw some Rainforest animals.
We have also been challenged to create some [...]
Primary 7 created sculptures based on Moore’s war drawings.
Henry Spencer Moore (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist and sculptor.
During the war, Moore was commissioned as a war artist, producing powerful drawings of Londoners sleeping in the London Underground while sheltering from the blitz.
We used newspaper to make our figures and [...]
Gas Masks
We designed and made gas masks as part of our WWII project, we had to make sure we could see out of the gas mask and a filter to protect us from the poisonous gas. It was quite tricky because it was difficult making the paper do what you needed, especially the nozzle. [...]
I really enjoyed doing my picture. Mrs C gave us a picture with half our face so we could draw the other side. We had to use a normal pencil for shading and colouring.
By Rachel
Over the week we have been working on a story called Flight to the sun. On Tuesday afternoon after Mrs C told us the story, we were put into groups of 4 to retell the story in our own way, even though we heard the story we still thought it was SCARY in front of [...]
