This is a story of a man made of leaves and his journey over the earth’s landscape and the wonderful sights he sees as well as the friends he makes. Wow! did you know, as the plants break down the chlorophyll, the green colour disappears from their leaves. Depending on which chemicals are found in the leaf, they can turn different shades of yellow or orange or even red.
We used the Autumn leaves to create our own leaf man pictures.
This year’s picture is “Woman in a Hat and A fur Coat” by Pablo Picasso. Each class uses a picture for inspiration for their art work. Some of our classes created with own art work inspired by the Pablo Picasso artwork and others used his cubism style of art to inspire their own paintings.
Cubism is a style of art which aims to show all of the possible viewpoints of a person or an object all at once. It is called Cubism because the items represented in the artworks look like they are made out of cubes and other geometrical shapes. Cubism was first started by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque.
All the art work was displayed in the hall for all the children to enjoy.
We have been busy in Redwood creating our “Take One” pictures. This year’s picture is “Woman in a Hat and A fur Coat” by Pablo Picasso. Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest and most-influential artists of the 20th century and the creator (with Georges Braque) of Cubism.
Cubism use simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes. Using inspiration from a modern cubism painter Amada Hone, the children have created their own cubism painting using acrylic paints.
Today, we looked at autumn seeds and leaves. The leaves are starting to turn different colours in our woods. The trees are producing many different seeds. They all look very different. We looked at small red hawthorn berries, sloe berries, conkers and the large spikey sweet chestnut.
Some of the animals are collecting seeds for winter, some hibernate and many birds migrate at this time of year. We each made a clay animal that could be found in our woods. We made hedgehogs, birds and squirrels.
Today was our first outing to Forest School, we learnt about the boundaries and started to learn the rules so we can play safely. We looked at the pond and had fun playing in the mud kitchen.
We used our navigational skills to navigate our way around the school grounds. We followed instructions and a map of the school grounds to navigate from point to point, marking our control points on the map with a red dot.
Chestnut went for a walk around the local area to look for human and physical features
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