Vegetable Art



Can you guess what season this man represents?

I was inspired by our growing vegetables to look at the work of an artist called Guiseppe Archimboldo.  He painted pictures of people representing seasons using vegetables and fruits.  Using lots of different fruits and vegetables we had a go at making our own pictures in the style of Archimboldo. Take a look at the results I think they're fab.

Loving the beard.

What a cutey!

Look at this lovely lady with her lipstick on!

 Great work Year 1  I think Archimboldo would be proud of you !!

Stick Insect news

FANTASTIC NEWS !!!!!

One of our stick insect eggs has hatched. He hatched on Tuesday night and is only 2 cm long.  Now we have out in some ivy to feed him he is really hard to spot but I managed to get this picture of him before the ivy was put in.

He's upside down here as I had to lean into the cage to get this picture.

We now need a name for this little fella......can you reply and make a suggestion.  We will need to look carefully on Monday morning as there are 8 more eggs to hatch.  I wonder if any of them will have hatched?

Where in the world?

As part of our topic lesson we have been looking at the world map and identifying countries that will be sending teams to the London 2012 Olympics. 

Which country does the flag belong to?

Which continent are you looking at?

Yummy Honey

Lasr week we had a fantastic feast in Year 1.  First we found out all about the honey bee and why it is so important that we look after them.  Mrs Longhawn had bought a jar of honey with a real honeycomb in it and we got to try the honey when we made honey sandwiches.  Some children in our class hadn't tried honey before but everyone was very brave at trying it and some children even found out that honey is very yummy.  After the honey sandwiches we had a chance to try some of our potatoes that we had grown ourselves.  We tried some in just butter and some that had been made into potato mayonaise.  It was a real treat to have our pudding frst and then our main course!!!

Buttering the bread

The honey comb

Can you remember what shape the honeycomb weas made from?

Exciting trip news

Yesterady I went to visit Harlow Carr Gardens to prepare for our school trip on the 16th July.  I was so excited to see all that we can do there.  If you want a sneak preview of where we are going click on this link below to go to the Harlow Carr website.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/Gardens/Harlow-Carr

On the website there is a special section for children that shows you how to make the cool jelly below and has some excellent colouring pictures and plant facts for you to explore.

Let me know what you find out.

Olympic fun

On Monday we had an excellent time at our world sports day.  Despite the weather our teams put in maximum effort in the standing long jump and the relay and obstacle races.  You never know we may have some future olymians !

On your marks get set...........

Super fast running girls

More veg news

Whilst we were in the garden today we took the opportunity to see how our veg patch was growing and label the vegetables.  We made our labels in ICT lessons and now it was time to put them in next to the vegtables so that we know what we're growing.  This rain might have been miserable for us but it has been perfect growing weather for our veg which is coming on a treat!