Listening to the sounds of animals

We looked and listened at all the animals from the book 'Polar bear, what do you hear?'. Some of them were very loud and scary, but know we know many more animal sounds!

What do you hear?

After Brown Bear, we read another Eric Carle's Book: 'Polar Bear, Polar Bear what do you hear? It gave us the opportunity to dicover tsome animal sounds that we didn't know yet and we had tones of fun trying to imitate them, we also made some artistic representations of few of the animals form the book:

Momin's tearing appert some cotton to make Polar Bear's coat.

 

 

 

 

We then made the yelping peacock. We spread and mixed some paint on the table then put a white piece of paper on top of it so it would make some nice pattern as we tapped it repeatedly and as strong as we could!

Blue was for the peacock's body.

 

green was for the peacock's feathers

 

 

 

this whole process involved a lot of tapping on the paper to make sure the paint will transfer to the paper, it was making a lot of noise too as we banged on the table!

and finally red and yellow for the dots on the peacock's feathers.

once the paint dried, our teachers cut some circles out of the paint and we got to place them on the'peacock's feathers', we placed them them according to how we felt. 

 

 

and we all did this very differently.

For the bellowing walrus we mixed red and white together to make pink. with a dash of black for the walruses marks.

once the paint was well mixed we used a rolling pin to apply to the walrus's body, a great little exercise for hand-eye coordination.

some of us found it a bit tedious and resorted to well tested methods of paint application: hand painting!

Here, we're checking the walrus's facial characteristics, making sure we've got all the elements we need to finish off out own. 

making its moustache.

then moving on to apply eyes and teeth.

you can see our great walruses on our outside boards.

The last one in our serie, the snarling leopard.. we squeezed the paint right onto the leopard's body,

then used our hands to spread it.

Falcon giving directions to Mida on how to proceed..

Stars of week 3

Momin

 

Falcon 

What do you see?

As part of learning about our senses we read Eric Carle's book 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear what do you see?'. it gave us the opportunity to learn about various animals, what they look like and what do we see them with!

Here we are painting Purple Cat, from the book. We're also getting to know that by mixing colours together we can create another one. We used a pint brush to paint Purple Cat.
 

 

 

After Purple cat, we had a go at Pink Bird. For pink bird we used our hands and mixed red white directly onto the paper.

For Blue Horse, we mixed glue, shaving foam blue and white paint together, it had an interesting texture and a perfumey smell.  

Falcon is having a good sniff at the shaving foam..

Already everyone is wanting to help and make things happen on their own..

Mixing it all up.

The texture and colour was a new experience.

For Brown bear we used a rough scouring tool to try and make brown bear look more life like.

 In the end we used whichever tool we liked best...