Task 1: Art skill focus

Choose a superhero.  We are going to trace a picture of them into the middle of your sheet of paper BUT  you cannot use black or pencil, you have to trace in the colour you can see.  So if your hero’s hair is blonde, trace their hair in yellow.  If their cape is red, trace their cape in red…of course, if you trace something black, use your black pencil!  Once you are done, shade in the colours.

Now, label the features and powers your superhero possesses.

Task 2:

Repeat the activity for someone in real life who you consider a hero.  It could be a family member, someone in the community, an emergency worker or even someone you see in the newspaper!

Label their heroic qualities, such as hard work or kindness onto the sheet.

Zoom meeting ID:  93671558710
Password: art

We are going to have a go at adapting a nice piece of artwork I’ve seen online to our People who changed the World topic.

You will need:

paper

pencil

thin and thick black pens (black biro, handwriting pens, felt tips and even black paint all work fine)

 

It would also help if you have a picture of Dr Martin Luther King Jr Available to draw from.

 

Please join us on zoom for our last Beat The Teachers quiz.  Remember to add your current year group infront of your name on zoom so I can sort you into groups easily please.  However, feel free to come up with a crazy nickname on Kahoot!

Zoom Meeting ID: 946 5718 5074

Password: quiz

 

The teachers won last week and earned their treat…can you turn the tables on them this week?  We have introduced a new category this week, due to popular demand:  “Fortnite” (the video game, for old people like me!)  With questions written and presented by our Year 6 children and Mrs Rees’s son, Eddie.  I’ve read them when I put the quiz together and didn’t know any of them…it doesn’t look good for the teachers!!!

Zoom meeting ID:  946 5718 5074

Password:  quiz

When you log into Zoom this time, please use your year group at the beginning of your name  (3 Mr Swallow).  We are going to do the chat first and the quiz afterwards this time, log on from 1:15 onwards.

As usual, you will need to have a separate device to access the Kahoot app to join in with the quiz.

Good luck kids!

At home this weekend, Grace and I worked on a big scribble picture.  To begin with, we drew a VERY simple and very light pencil outline of Robin Hood on a big piece of paper.  You can make loads of mistakes and redo bits without rubbing out as no one will ever see them! (You don’t have to be a good drawer)

The only bit we put a lot of effort into was the face, especially the eye area.

Add black felt tip carefully to show details such as pupils, eyebrows and even some eye lashes.  We added a beard and moustache as we though it fitted the scribble style we were going to use.

 

Then comes the fun bit!  Scribble!!!  Keep going over your sketch lines, use different shades of the same colour.  You don’t need to be too careful but try to make your scribbles for parts of the picture go in the same direction…we did the shade lines on the face the same direction, we kept going over the hood with different greens.

Finally, add a background by drawing 100s of scribble leaves. Scribble them in light green and scribble in the gaps in dark green. Do really thick scribble when you get close to your character to make him stand out. You can even add secret words and messages into the leaves…

There you have it, a scribble picture…they look best when you do them really big and then view them from far away or take a photo.  Share yours with us so we can see your skills!

 

The teachers won the quiz!  That’s right, you heard it here first! The teachers won the quiz!!! Mrs Millington came 1st so she won a bag of treats!!!

It also means that the teachers don’t have to pay a forfeit!

Come on kids! We can’t let this happen again, this is our chance to make all of the teachers do something daft! Don’t let them win again!!!

This afternoon, we will use some very common household ingredients to make our own ink and quill.

We shall use our ink to draw a portrait of one of the characters from the highwayman on Wednesday.

The ink making and the art lesson will be both be online lessons through Zoom.  I will start the connection from 1:15 both days for you to log in.

Tuesday 1:30pm ink making lesson

Zoom Meeting ID: 951 3096 3816

Password:  ink

You will need:  salt, vinegar, a few handfulls of dark berries such as blueberries or blackberries.  (You can make other coloured ink with the appropriate color berry or veg!)  You will also need either a fine sieve, muslim cloth or old babric to strain them through.

If you would also like to make a quill, you will need a feather or a thin straw and some scraps of paper & glue.

 

Wednesday 1:30 portrait drawing

Meeting ID: 990 7137 5354

Password:  art

You will need:  paper (preferably a3 art paper but whatever you have will work!) your home-made ink, either a stick of charcoal or some ash (you can just have an adult light a few matches and let them burn out, they work just as well)

We said if you managed to beat us at the quiz then we would do a forfeit…to dress as Mr. Bailey in his Hi-viz vest, Sunglasses and Honey G hat!

Enjoy…

Our final topic for this year is named: 

Hero or Villain?

Just like with our Space topic, we are going to run this topic across all of Key Stage 2.  As we do not know what will happen with schooling in the coming weeks and months yet, we have designed this topic to run all of the way through the Summer holiday.

We are going to cover 8 Units, each with a different curricular focus.  Some units will be history heavy, some literacy and some sport or music!

Our units are:

• Stealing (our hearts!)
• Conquer and Divide
• World-Changers!
• Everyday Heroes
• Un-popular music
• History Hero ZERO!
• Champ to Cheat
• Be the Hero of Your Own Story…

The work that you add to the blog and the work that pupils who are in school contribute will be added to displays and boards all around school, ready for you to see in September.

Let’s get started with Unit 1:  Stealing (our hearts!)  We investigate 2 stories where the hero of the story is a thief!  Someone who should be a bad guy!  We are going to build up towards being able to control viewpoint in our writing, with plenty of reading comprehension, art and practical tasks along the way!

You can choose, on Thursday, which text you wish to work on.  “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes will be covered on the Year 5&6 blogs whilst Robin Hood will be the focus of the Year 3&4 blogs.  YOU DON’T HAVE TO DO THE TEXT ON YOUR BLOG, you can choose to do the work on either but bear in mind the Highwayman is a more difficult text.