Nature walk, what can we find?

Nature collage

Can you guess..What are they doing?

In this activity, children will get to go beyond the four walls to explore their nature and practise on their road safety rules.

 Before they start collecting items that can be use for their collage. They were seen gathering in a group and heard discussing on what they found and describing its textures and appearances.

Once they're back in their classroom, they started pasting the items that they have found. They were guided to place a few leaves at the back of their drawing block and rubbed it with crayon. A few were seen amazed by the design formed from the leaves textures and patterns. Soon, they started trying out with different colours and materials to see the differences when using crayon and colour pencil to rub the same type of leaves.

Isn't it beautiful and creatively done? Their learning is not only in the classroom but they go beyond the four walls and imagination to explore and learn!

Smack that fly!

 

 

For the month of October, we learnt about insects. The children were delighted and excited to learn in depth about some insects. For instance, we learnt about houseflies. They were surprised to know that there are 300 000 species of flies. They were developed 65 million years ago and can  survive in all types of habitat. We also talked about why a housefly is also known as a pest. The children were curious to learn about the housefly's features. They were surprised to know that a housefly has a red compound eyes. Each eye contains 4000 lenses that enable visualization of different pictures  at the same time, yet they have poor eye sight.

 

In this art and craft activity, the children are given two sets of colour. They were presented with red and grey paints, which is the colour of the housefly. The children used flyswatter to smear it with paint and smack it on the butcher paper. The children took markers to draw circle shapes that represented houseflies. They then smacked the flyswatter with paint over the circle shapes. The children were excited and pretended to catch houseflies.

 

 

Ern Yu and Chrishaun drawing houseflies.

 

Yee Ann looking out for the circle shapes.

Jing Xuan is observing the group at work.

Chrishaun had some paint splashed on his face.

Jing Xuan exchanging the flyswatter with her peer.

Chrishuan and Ern Yu at work.

 

Time to get dirty!

When both groups finished with their art work.

Eu Yi is finishing the art work with extra houseflies.

 

 

 

There are many household items that can be used for creative expression.  You can create fun prints using these household items with the young ones!