1P's Chilly Winter Landscapes and Printing

This week was 1P's turn to use fabric to collage their winter landscapes. They learned how to use different sized pieces of fabric and to cut their own shapes to cover the two halves of the landscape. The results are beautiful...

This one uses some tiny pieces of fabric at the top, and larger pieces for the land

Here longer strips of fabric have been used to make stripes accross the sky...

This one uses lots of small pieces and there are no white bits showing through!

This one has some beautiful mountains....

This one uses larger pieces of fabric in limited colours to give a different effect

This one has a dark line accross the horizon.

1P also made some leaf prints to add to the collages next week - they are absolutely beautiful

Great work 1P 

More Rubbish....!

Class 5A looked at the images of the Floating Island of Thilafushi in the Indian Ocean, and we discussed the problem of disposing waste by shipping it around the world and dumping it somewhere else. We all agreed that the scale of the problem at Thilafushi is really shocking. 5A spent the rest of the morning making some careful and wonderfully expressive drawings and paintings of 'rubbish' and then devising their own machines that would re-use something that we throw away to make into something else or perform a useful task.

Here is some of the work that they made...

                        

Rubbish!

The floating Island of Thilafushi is part of the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean, and is entirely made of rubbish. It is growing by the hour, as big shipping containers add thousands of tonnes of rubbish from all around the world to it every day.

It's a big problem! 5M discussed these issues today and spent the morning thinking about how we can recycle the things we use...and use less.

                                   

We made some fantastic drawings and paintings from piles of rubbish and scrap things in the classroom with some very careful observation skills.

                          

I love the way the objects are piled up - exploring how things look when they are partly behind and in front of each other.

                            


















                                              And these are big, bold and very confident.
We also spent some time making drawings with the opposite hand, which took a lot of concentration, but were really good fun and resulted in some wonderfully wobbly and expressive drawings.

                               

We even did some drawings with our eyes closed - I love the bold, overlapping lines!

After break we thought about what an imaginary recycling machine might look like and what kind of thing it would make, and 5M had heaps of interesting and ingenuious ideas...a lot of them seemed to be edible like this candy floss-maker that recycles snow! We also had a machine that re-used old fruit and turned it into candy floss!

This one would be very popular at the moment - its a sunshine maker...

                                      

I love this one - its a pancake machine and I'd quite like one in my kitchen!