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The Power of Play
As an Early Years teacher, I am often asked by parents at the end of the school year, what can they do to support their child over the summer holidays, what app? or workbooks should they buy? or how can they make sure their child is ready for the next school year. The answer I give may sound very simple, but is all too often overlooked - just let them play!
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Drawing Reflections of a City in the water
Today we have drawn “The reflection of the city in the water”. The students learnt how to draw the different photographs, pictures and answered the questions: Look at the pictures and say how does the water reflect the city? What can you say about the sky in each picture? What kind of materials has the artist used: paint, crayons or coloured pencils? After that, we tried to challenge ourselves by depicting smooth transitions between colours in the reflections between water and sky.
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Drawing a silhouette
Have you ever drawn a picture of a friend or family member in profile? If so, you have made a silhouette.
During our ART lesson this week we have concentrated on the new theme, "silhouettes from under the sea". The students have given definitions to the words: silhouette, foreground, background, diagonal line, outline, etc. and answered the questions about silhouette pictures before starting to draw their own.
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