This week we looked at rainforest and the creatures that live in them. Most of the kids had never been to a rainforest so we had answers like pigs and elephants ;] We used the internet to have a look at pictures of the rainforests and tried spotting the different animals hiding among the green. We decided on making a hanging butterfly, free drawing a Toucan and coloring in a large parrot.
After the children had worked so hard with their writing these past few weeks I decided we needed to have some carefree fun making Dinosaurs. We where able to recycle egg boxes, toothpaste packs and light bulb boxes to make 3D dinosaurs with lolli pop sticks as their legs.
With the children growing so fast I have decided that it is a good time to introduce a bit of handwriting to the art classes. Along with just learning vocab I would like them to start to recognize letters and write key words. This week we started with Farm Animals. I had the children match up animal names written on post- its to the pictures. They then got to make an animal farm and had to copy the names of each animal onto the back of their own picture. At this age children tend to know just the letters in their own name so as much practice as possible with all letters is encouraged. If they find it too hard writing for the first time you can start with having them trace over the letters you have written for them.
