Calendar Art

Our art (and writing) this term has been

inspired by the work of Eric Carle.

In our final art project we used all of the 

texture and colour-making  techniques that we've been practicing 

for our calendar-art pictures.

Our parents will be able to buy the calendars next term.

Animal Art  -Inspired by Eric Carle

Check out our other projects here.

What animal would you have chosen to make?

How many wild animals and how many tame animals can you count in our pictures?
B4 children - can you explain how you made your textured paper?

Adding Interest to our Writing

As learners it's good to Make Connections as it helps us in our understanding.

We are studying the work of Eric Carle as an artist and 

as a writer. 

This week we were using his story

 "Slowly, Slowly, Slowly," said the Sloth.

The children were able to make a connection to the sloth, 

as our quad-blogging buddy Mr Salsich has a sloth 

named Perezoso as a class mascot.

We are reading Eric Carle's books to identify techniques he uses to add interest to his writing.

On the last page of this book, the sloth objects to being called lazy and gives a long list of other adjectives that could be used to describe a sloth.

Adjectives are describing words and being able to use adjectives well is a great technique for adding interest to your writing.

We were excited to make another connection, when we saw that our friends in 2KM and 2KJ have also been learning about using adjectives!

Read their post here.

We've created a Wordle of adjectives that could be used to describe the fireflies that we made in art last week.

Can you make this sentence more interesting by adding some adjectives?
The firefly is in the tree.

Inspired by Eric Carle

This term our art work is being inspired by Eric Carle.

After reading some of his books

we used paint with toothbrushes, sponges, brushes, plastic knives and fingers to create textural effects, then used our painted sheets of paper to create an artwork.

The focus as we created our firefly artworks 

was to have texture, balance and symmetry.

'Firefly' on PhotoPeach

How did we do?

What is your favourite Eric Carle book?