Fairy Tale Castles

K/6B have been learning about Fairy Tales.

We looked at Fairy Tale castles and who might live in them.

First K/6B drew their castles, including towers, a gate, battlements and windows.

Then K/6B stamped bricks on their castles using rectangular sponges.

Finally, we added fancy flags and glued our castles onto a bright background with a horizon and lovely lawn.

K/6B loved:

• ·       Sponging the bricks
• ·       Making flags
• ·       Imagining who might live inside.

Bees

 Lesson 1

Year 1 discussed tessellating patterns and looked at the tessellating hexagonal design inside honeycomb.
We draw our own honeycomb by tracing around hexagons with a yellow pastel. It was a bit tricky making our own tessellating patterns but I thought Year 1 did extremely well and were very resilient!
After this step, we painted each hexagon using watercolour paints.

Lesson 2

Year 1 students each had a turn doing printmaking. I had carefully carved a bee out of lino, which Year 1 students rolled black paint onto with rollers, then pressed the lino on to their honeycomb paintings.
The result is fantastic! Well done Year 1!