Robots

We had great fun making Robots last week, I also used it as an opportunity to teach the children about Shapes. We drew a big robot with the children choosing which shape should be used for each body part. They then cut out shapes to put together to make their own robot. To finish off we used lots of recycled bits to make 3D robots. An old box was covered with tin foil and bubble rap, then faces and arms where added on.

Exotic Animals

Animals always leaves you with many great art projects to work on. I started the class having the children match up the first letter of an animal with its picture. The children mostly recognise the letters from their own names but are slowly able to sound out a few more. We then used toilet rolls to make tall giraffes [ http://dltk-kids.com/animals/mgiraffe.html] and cut round animal templates to make a jungle collage.

Planets

Looking at Planets is great fun as its something children are always fascinated with. We started the class seeing which planets the children knew, Earth and Mars seem to be the two they always remember. We looked at the rest counted how many there are then put them in order from the sun recognising the smallest and biggest ones. After ordering and labelling their Planets the children painted a big Earth and hung an astronaut and space ship off it to make a mobile hanger. We finished making a Space picture with rockets and stars, lots of glitter and shiny paper.