Douglas with Summer

Douglas went home with Summer yesterday, he met Pickle the hamster and liked the view out of the window.

Best of all he loved doing gymnastics but was a bit sore in the middle after being held on the wall bars!  Douglas thought his balancing on the beam was impressive.

He was ready for bed by the time he had finished all that hard work.

Quaker Wood

The Squirrel and Badger classes spent the morning at Quaker Wood. We had a great time doing rubbings, bug hunts, nature spotting and bug house building. Douglas tried the bug homes out and thought them rather good.

Thank you to all the volunteers of Quaker Wood who planned the activities for us and made it such an enjoyable morning.

Starry Night

We  created  our own version of Starry Night. The main thing we had to do was make the bright stars with a circuit. Luckily we have been learning how to create a circuit using batteries, bulbs and wires. Sometimes we used two batteries to make the light brighter, other times we put two bulbs together so it was quite feint. We used black background for the dark sky and created the village with bricks. 

Starry Starry Night

We have looked at the painting called Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh and recreated it using just line. Here are just some of our drawings.

We used lines that were swirly, bendy, short, twirly, straight, long and curved.

This is how Vincent Van Gogh drew his picture.