Myth masks

We spent quite a few weeks last term working on making myth masks in small groups. We had to be able to work in a group with other people which some people found very difficult at first,l but everyone got much better at it the more we did.

First we had to draw some designs for the masks.

Then we started to draw out the masks and stick cardboard, bubble wrap and rolled up newspaper on them - do you think they look good?

Then we built up papier mache ...

... we painted them ...

... and then used darker colours of paint to make them look better.

Last we used things like feathers, wool, fur and even goats' hair to  add decoration to them.

Here are the finished masks. We're going to use them in drama next term.

Do you know who they all are?

Christmas reindeer

Merry Christmas from class 3/4.

We hope you like our Christmas reindeer.

We had fun making them!

They helped us write the instructions for making them so that other teachers can make them too.

They all gathered together - we think they were having their Christmas party.

Merry Christmas!

End of term

It was just a 2 day week for the last week of term, but we still managed to pack a lot in.

We wrote instructions for making our Christmas reindeer - there will be another post all about the reindeer soon.

We held the medal ceremony for the class Olympics. Here are some of the class with their certificates and medals. Everyone was very sporting while taking part in the Olympic events, watching the finals and during the medal ceremony.

We did a review of our topic - Ancient Greece.

At the start of the topic we wrote down all the things we knew about Ancient Greece - it wasn't very many!

This week we wrote down only some of the things we knew about Ancient Greece now - we filled the board!

Do you think we learned a lot?

We made some pompom creatures.

On the last afternoon half the classs went swimming and got to play on the inflatables. The other half of the class went to PE. Mrs MacNab set a very hard challenge - they had to get the giant ball from one end of the room to the other without it touching the floor - and it wasn't allowed to touch anyone's hand either! At first they said it was far too difficult, but after they stopped shouting ideas and started working as a team and listening to other people's ideas they managed it. They were very proud and Mrs MacNab was very pleased.