Although there is no doubt we will miss the vivid, vibrant colours in the last season, the children's art and poetry below capture the peace, reflection and beauty we can all find during Winter!
The children's 'Winter Wonderland' art involved a few steps:
- The children firstly learned about creating the cool colours of Winter using the colours blue, green, black and white. After teacher demonstration, they learned that adding white in small amounts to a colour can make it lighter . They also learned that adding a very tiny amount of black can make a colour darker!
- They drew lines on a sheet of paper to ensure they remembered to create a different shade on each line.
- Each child had fun experimenting with different shades of blue and green.
- They left the bottom section of their art free to create the illusion of snow and when the paint was dry, they painted black, bare tree.
Poetry Writing
- Once we completed this activity, the children were eager to experimented further with mixing colours to create different shades of purple which also highlights the cool winter landscapes we see at this time of year.
- Following the art lesson, the children listened and responded to winter poetry which gave them lots of winter vocabulary to use in their own poems.
- After a brainstorm of interesting adjectives, verbs and nouns to use in their poems as well as teacher modelling writing her own poem, the children composed the first draft of their poem in their poetry copies.
- After editing their first draft, the final version was presented on a special winter sheet. We hope you like the display of their poetry below.
