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?

Class Olympics begins

Here are some of the P3s having fun practising their spelling in the sand tray.

P4 were using the loop cards to practise their times tables. P4 are all now working on the 6x table but still practising the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10. Some people have even started working on the 9x table and teaching themselves the 11x table!

In RME we talked about peace and then designed peace windows. Everyone says they look really good on the classroom window.

In maths, P3 were still working on length and P4 were doing area.

Here are P3 trying to measure the length of things using cubes. They soon realised that a ruler was much easier to use when the object they were measuring was bigger.

They got so good at measuring that they moved on to measuring tapes and started comparing people's head, wrist and waist sizes!

 

 We started the finals of the class Olympics. First we had to light the Olympic flame and carry it to the gym with us. It will stay burning until the Olympics have finished.

This is the Boccia final, with a very sporting audience watching. The competitiors were very sporting too.

The javelin final started as well. Next week we will be doing the mini marathon and long jump and finishing the javelin final.

Some people played 'sticks' outside with real sticks.

In Art we are still working on our myth masks. Watch out for a special blog entry about them when they are finished. 

Do you think they look good so far?