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The Gallery – Self Portrait

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Here I am again cherry picking from the old gallery topics provided by Sticky Fingers. 

This time I have chosen to look at Self Portraits and again I am using my teaching as a vehicle for this exploration. 

When I taught Year 5, as a ‘Getting to Know You’ lesson I asked the children to make a doll of themselves using lollipop sticks, googly eyes and collage materials.  They had to make the doll as a portrait of themselves, as they believe themselves to be.  Once all the dolls were made we displayed them in our classroom as a reminder of us as individuals working together as a team.  This was a great combination of DT and PSHE that was fun for all involved and a great way for me to get to know my new pupils at the start of the year.

One of the children made a doll of me, I wonder if you can spot me??

Year 5 and 6 Literacy – Weather Idioms

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In my classroom one of my favourite projects is to combine art and literacy through the exploration of idioms.  Here are some weather idioms produced by an old class of mine.

See if you can spot a storm in a teacup, a fair weather friend and a few people with a face like thunder!

A great lesson which is lots of fun with words and pictures and can be made accessible for all!

The Gallery – Shape Street, Tessellation Town

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The challenge set by Sticky Fingers for The Gallery this week is to find shapes all around us and snap them up.  As soon as I read the brief I knew the photos that I wanted to share.  They are from 2005 and my final teaching practice in Cumbria.  I was working with a mixed Reception, Year 1/2 class for 6 weeks.  It was wonderful.  I learned so much and it gave the foundations of my own classroom that I had in the September of the same year.  These picture show the celebration of a 2 week topic on Shape and Space in Numeracy.  We had explored 2D, 3D, tessellation, pattern and symmetry.  We brought all our new knowledge and understanding together to create a whole class display.

Ladies and Gentleman, I give you – Shape Street in Tessellation Town, in The Land of Polygon.  (I wish I had taken more photos of it now!)