"They will soar on wings like eagles" (Isaiah 40:31)
Respect / Responsibility / Courage / Trust / Perseverance / Compassion
As part of their work on exploring the properties of materials and forces, Kingfishers made silly putty. Throughout the activity, the properties of their mixture changed and they were challenged to think of words to describe the properties. With their successful putty, they explored which forces they needed to apply to change the shape.
It was great fun, if a little messy!!
If you want to have a go at home, you need 60ml of washing up liquid and 45g of cornflour.
This term the Kingfishers have been learning about pitch, rhythm and dynamics in music. They have explored tuned instruments and have been improvising with creating different rhythms.
The Kingfishers have been finding out about the work of Antony Gormley. They looked at his work ‘Field’.
In groups, they read instructions on how to create their own figures. First they tried with play doh and then they created their finished product with clay. Even though they all started with the same ball of clay and followed the same instructions, each creation is unique!!
We talked about how they all looked when they were lined up together.
What do you think?
Are they: spooky, friendly, haunting, scary, funny?
