Years 1 & 2 Wednesday 6th May

Good morning,

Thank you to those who joined us on Sumdog yesterday it was lots of fun! Well done to those children who managed to beat the teachers, we were trying our best! If your child enjoyed playing against us, we would love to get their multi-player game suggestions via our email and we will plan another time for round 2. 

Today we are continuing to look at observational drawings. If you have not seen the previous art blogs, please look back at Thursday's blog's and you will be able to see the activities so far. 

Here is a selection of sea shells. Today's activity is to learn how to draw some different types of shells. Your child may also like to find out some different facts about the shell they draw and write it underneath. For examples, you would commonly find an olive shell in Australia and New Zealand, they prefer shallow water and they are carnivores. 

Below are links to some step by step videos, to show how to draw different shells. Your child may wish to draw a shell without watching the tutorial. Please remind your child to regularly look at the picture as you are more likely to have an accurate drawing by continually referring back to the image, this is the main skill for observational drawings. If you have any shells in your homes, they would be great for your child to look at to support their art work. 

Nautilus Shell ( very similar to sharkeye moon) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXrC5ogVRVc

Conch shell ( very similar to scotch bonnet) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS6x4GXooOA

Oyster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDG3JcuFapg&t=22s


Extra seaside creative ideas 

Ocean slime (Miss Langley's favourite thing to make)

https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/ocean-slime-recipe/


Foil fish

Design your own ice cream

(You could get your whole family to design an ice cream and make the best one)

A Maths note from Mr Jude

Maths - Temperature Diary

We mentioned yesterday that one of the ways in which you could explore practical measuring was checking the temperature at places around the world. We'd like you to keep this up and each day write down the temperature in Rayleigh (and other places if you wish). Keep this up each day (and at the weekend) because we will be using this information for a job next week!

We hope you continue to find these ideas useful. If your child would like to show us any work they have completed or any pictures of the wonderful things they have been up to, please email the KS1 Teachers on our email ks1@downhallprimary.com. We would love to see their work!

The KS1 Team :)