THE MAGIC OF COLOURS

As every year, 3rd graders were introduced to Art (it's their first year doing "Plástica" iun English at our school) by learning about the magic of colours. For that, we usually read "Little blue and little yellow" and then experiment with primary colours. And that's what we did, as you can watch on the video below:

WE'RE BACK!

Hi there!

Here you are the first post of this school year. This time it shows an activity done by 3rd grade "little artists". 

This year, at school, we are working on the project "Around the world on top of a plate". One of the stops we've made has been Germany, European country from where we learned some information. Anna, an English teacher from Potsdam, in Germany, came and told us a lot of things about their traditions, food... 

Since our town's main saint is Saint Martin, we learned that they have their own Saint Martin tradition, consisting of sharing Saint Martin croissants and having a parade to which kids bring in their homemade lanterns. After learning this, on 11th November, we made our own lanterns. You can see them in the presentation below.

HAPPY FAMILY DAY 2014!

Today, May 15th International Family Day is celebrated, so, to show our families how appreciated they are, in our bilingual Art lessons we made a little something for them. We made stained glass candle holders (they can be also used as flower vases).

We brought a glass jar to school (from jam, youghourt, ...). We cut some TISSUE PAPER into little pieces and made 4 different colour combinations. After that, we were ready. We took GLUE, spread it all over the jar and stick the tossue paper.

After the hard work (our hands became VERY STICKY!), we put them to dry. Meanwhile, we started making our family day cards. We drew our family using thumb prints.

Once they were dry, this is what we got :)

We wrapped them.

And took them home!

Well done, kids! I hope your families loved them! 

PS: HAPPY FAMILY DAY!

BLOOMING CREATURES FROM UNDER THE SEA

Hi kids! 

Here's the video with some of our under the sea spring creations!

Our mermen and mermaids are inspired by Picasso portraits. We used the "Roll a Picasso face" dice game (it was super fun and useful!). The we designed their bodies. Then we invented their personality, likes and dislikes and described them. We then used them to play "Guess who" (this mini project was related to our physical description lessons).

The submarines are inspired by Pop art patterns, lines and colours! Third graders decided the Beatles needed a new updated version of their yellow submarine.

DRAWING FACIAL EXPRESSIONS

These days we are working on a Stop Motion animation. After making the storyboard, we started creating our characters (using plasticine, different kinds of paper, ...). One of the important things when creating a character for an animation is that it has to express, his gestures should talk. For this, we've been learning how to draw different facial expressions with this short presentation.

FACIAL EXPRESSIONS on PhotoPeach

We have also used the following printable activities and then we practised drawing different expressions.

OUR 2014 CALENDARS

As every year, we have made a calendar for our families. This year, 4th graders got inspired by jellyfish, the ocean creature they have chosent to study. We drew a group of jellyfish seen from a submarine window.

CHRISTMAS CARD DESIGNS

Hi there! 

Here you are the Christmas cards designs we presented to our town's Christmas card contest. The activity consisted of making a free Christmas card design. Some of you got inspired by some Christmas designs we saw and, surprisingly, many of you incorporated our "( months under the sea" school project into your drawings, creating images of a Christmas under the sea. Great job!

AUTUMN LEAVES CREATIONS

To join a little Autumn Exhibition organized at our school, we elaborated the following creations made with autumn leaves. We used:

• a piece of paper
• leaves
• crayons
• glue 
• scissors
• markers
• and, as always, lots of IMAGINATION.

Here's the presentation. We hope you'll like them!

SEAFOOD FESTIVAL ART EXHIBITION, OCTOBER 2013

Hi there! Here you are our Art creations for the 50th aniversary of our town (O Grove) famous Seafood Festival. We used different materials to make these beautiful paintings. We hope you'll like them!

I AM BLOP!

We've discovered a great book to help us develop our creativity, practise our reading and have a great time while reading it. It's the book I'm Blop, by the great Hervé Tullet author of so many wonderful books for children (Press here, The big book of art, The game of mix up art, Doodle cook...) //Este curso hemos descubierto un libro genial para desarrollar nuestra creatividad, practicar la lectura y pasar un buen rato leyendo. Se trata del libro "Soy un Blop", del autor francés Hervé Tullet, también autor de libros como" Un libro", "El gran libro del arte", ...

Here you are a short video introducing the book. Hope you'll enjoy it as much as we did!

If you'd like to discover more about the author and his amazing work, press on the image below to access his web page. //Si queréis saber más de este autor, pinchad en la imagen inferior para acceder a su página web.