With sprint in full swing, this term has been focused on plants and animals. My year 1 and 2 classes have been looking at the class text Farmer Duck. The story follows poor duck who has to do all the work around the farm while the greedy fat farmer sits in bed all day eating chocolate.
I decided to combined different techniques and media to create the different farm animals from the story.
Week 1, we collaged using feathers, practising laying them in the same direction. This activity seems simple but shows the children that not all collaging involves using paper.
Week 2, we concentrated on developing the printing technique. The children mixed water, washing up liquid and black paint in a bowl. Next, they used straws to blow bubbles (careful not to suck up the mixture). Once the bubble were high enough, they lay their sheets of paper on top of the bubbles. Once dry, the children cut out a cloud shape for a sheep's body and added legs and a head. We finished our sheep with google eye stickers but drawing eyes could extend the project.
Week 3 was the week of the chicken. The children had to fold their paper plate in half to create a chicken's body. This was a great opportunity to talk a little about maths and how two halves have to be equal or there not really a half. The children then added detail by cutting shapes from coloured paper. The children discussed the types of shapes they were drawing. It was fantastic to hear the children discuss the difference from geometric shapes to organic shapes that we had covered in a previous lesson. When I first introduced the vocabulary, I was concerned that the children may be to young but the risk paid off.
Again we finished the project with some googly eye stickers.
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