Fireworks in chalk and oil pastel

Inventing patterns for our necklaces

When we were thinking about Grace's colourful African dress we had the idea that she would look nice with a bring necklace too! Using our skills from maths and the pattern and sequence work we've done we invented a pattern with beads. We threaded our bead pattern onto a length of ribbon and repeated it many times. Some of our patterns were complicated and we had to work with lots of concentration to repeat them carefully. Do you like our bright necklaces?

 

Using water colour paints

The illustrator of our Power of Reading book is called Caroline Binch. We looked at some of her paintings and then we made our own self-portraits inspired by her style.

Here is our work:

Tessellating pattern blocks

In our 'Power of Reading' book - Grace and Family, Grace goes to visit her Papa in The Gambia. The illustrations show wonderful patterns and colours in the African cloth at the market and in the fabric shop. Grace and her Nana have African dresses especially made for them. In class we will be designing our own African prints. To warm-up for this, and to link with our work on 2D shapes, we created tessellations using the pattern blocks.  Do you like our patterns?

Art and IPC

Recently we've been doing lots of art linked with our IPC topic 'Structures'. In these photos you can see us using a scraping technique to make the shapes for a cityscape. Once these painted backgrounds are dry we will add detail (doors, windows, ladders, aerials) with black felt pens. Watch this space for pictures of our finished work.