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pre-school

preschool art journey

ife in Preschool is always up our class and enjoyed sensory aspects in an African village.
Lexciting and full of painting with curry, cinnamon This 5 minute lesson showed us
creativity. Children have and nutmeg, to embrace the about the harvest, inserting the
the opportunity to enjoy scent of the Asian culture. fruit collection moves as part of
the process of creating art Although the Art class is very a dance, in conjunction with the
projects with references from interesting, we decided to go beat of the drums.
Art History by reinterpreting outdoors and search for natural The Native Americans had a very
cultural features. We dug into elements to look into Land Art strong connection with nature.
early artworks and discovered and all its manifestations, this We have learnt where they lived
which tools humans would type of Art is not permanent, and how the Totemic sculptures
manufacture to make their thereby it helps us to understand simbolize protection. Following
lives easier and we explored how Art and Beauty (aesthetics) this path we arrived to the first
the prehistoric paintbrushes can be ephemeral sometimes. international encounter that
and made marks on the cave Deep into the Amazon allowed different cultures like
walls. we discovered a different the Native Americans and the
conception of beauty and we English Pilgrims to celebrate the
Jasmin Bergadà made our own decorations with harvest together and learn how
We learnt about some historic natural and recycled materials. to be tolerant and grateful with
cave paintings around the world Again we realized how Art is not others.
and talked about their lifestyle. only about painting or making Finally we have focused on
We realized we can do so much crafts, the body language the representation of oneself
with natural materials!! We have can help us express in many through collage, photography,
all sorts of tools around us… creative ways, so we followed mixed media and new
Have you ever tried painting an African Dance Master Class technologies such as the iPad
with blueberries? We also spiced that ilustrates the rural life resource OSMO Masterclass.

All About outer space!

his term in P4 we are three students from each class in teams, just like astronauts
Tlearning All About Outer can play at the same time, so we have to do, to complete different
Space! are learning how to take turns assignments, like creating a
and, at the same time, how to small-scale rocket ship or making
p4 team: Anna schillaci, Ana care for the material as most of it some alien slime.
Aluja & Jasmin Bergadà is made out of recycled material. It has been an incredible journey
We loved reading one of our The students have been learning so far, where our students have
new stories, “Life on Mars”, and an incredible amount of new been extremely motivated and
we decided we wanted to know vocabulary: words like orbits, are striving to absorb as much
more about space. With that satellites, gravity, solar flares, information as they can about
objective in mind we quickly rocket fuel and control panels this fascinating topic!
outlined everything we knew are being used daily in their
related to the topic, which was pretend play! They also love
not much, so we had to get new learning new information like
books and watch a lot of videos the fact that the very first dog
to gather our information. who flew around the moon was
We created our very own a Russian dog named Laika.
dramatic play area, where only Students have learned to work