Christmas party!

On Monday, Year 1 and 2 had our Christmas Party! We bought our party clothes to get changed into and a great time in the hall!

We danced to lots of Christmas songs...

We played pass the parcel... 

We had a dancing competition...

And we even had a very special visitor...

We had a fantastic time!! 

2D shapes

We have been learning about 2D shape this week and recapping the 2D shapes that we learnt about in Reception. 

We made 2D shape pictures using circles, squares, triangles and rectangles.

Miss Smith challenged us to be able to describe each shape by explaining about the number of sides it has, the number of corners and the types of sides (curved or straight). 

Artist study

This week we have been studying a famous artist called Mark Rothko. He was a Russian painter who lived most of his life in America. He was born in 1903 and died in 1970.

We started by looking at some of his painting on the website http://www.markrothko.org and talking the colours, shapes and moods of the pictures. 

We then used pencil crayons to investigate which colours we thought looked good together.

We then used paint to create a painting in the style of Mark Rothko by painting different sized blocks of colour onto our paper.

Here are some pictures of us creating our masterpieces. They will be on display in the classroom shortly.

Gymnastics!

All through the autumn term we have been working with Ashleigh, a gymnastics coach.

Here are some pictures from one of our final sessions where we were working on partner balances.