Art

Butterfly class enjoyed learning about the artwork of Keith Haring. They looked at different pieces of his and noticed they are always brightly coloured, have bold black outlines, show no facial features and all show some sort of movement or feeling. They chose a few different pictures and tried to work out exactly what they could see in them – we had some different answers.

They had a go at creating their own Keith Haring inspired artwork. They used a cardboard man template with moveable arms and legs so that they could change what position they were in. They drew around it on coloured paper and cut it out. Then they thought about what else could be in the picture. They drew and cut these out on bright paper. Then they glued it all down and drew black bold lines around the pieces. I think you’ll agree they are all fabulous and they make the classroom really colourful to look at. Can you tell what is happening in each one?

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The Gingerbread Man

This festive season the Butterfly class have enjoyed all things Gingerbread! They have enjoyed listening to the stories “The Gingerbread Man’s Christmas Wonders” and “The Gingerbread Man Loose at Christmas”

They have created their own Gingerbread people – they are all different just like us. They carefully decorated Gingerbread Christmas trees with green icing, and toppings and then ate them for snack! Yum yum!

They created a snowy village of houses for the Gingerbread people to live in. All choosing different sizes and styles of homes, they included some tasty looking treats too.

They also made salt dough gingerbread men as Christmas tree decorations to take home. They enjoyed mixing the dough and then rolling it out and using the shaped cutter. They weren’t so keen on putting a hole in his head for the string to go through!  Decorating them was messy but they do look fantastic.

They finished off this theme by using biscuits, sweets and icing to create a 3D home for a mini gingerbread man to live in.

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Self Portraits

Butterfly class have been drawing self portraits. They used a mirror to look closely at themselves. They talked about the different features they could see. Then they drew their features carefully. They make a great display in the classroom.

PE

This half term the Butterfly class have working on improving their aiming skills during indoor PE. They have learnt about adjusting their ‘power’ in order to reach a target more consistently.  They have had the opportunity to try different sporting activities to enhance this skill set. They’ve enjoyed curling, boccia, golf- putting and aiming hoops and beanbags at different targets. In doing this they have also been practising turn taking and some have even managed to total up and keep their scores too. Of course, sometimes they have found their own, more logical, creative ways of doing some things!

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Abney Hall Welly Walk

Butterfly class enjoyed a special autumn welly walk in Abney Hall Park in Cheadle. They searched for different animals carved from old tree trunks and took turns taking photographs of them. They also had great fun walking (and kicking) through the leaves looking for acorns and conkers. It was a great way to end this half term.