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Stepping Stones
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Last year we did a project about Time. We
made a time line of what we all do over 24
hours.
We also did a pie chart that showed how
the day was split into activities.
We had to do lots of maths to work it
out.
Our time line strip was 172 cm long and 8 cm
high and 6 cm per hour.
To finish off our time project we decided to
make clocks. We all chose something different
for our clock designs.
We had to do some maths to work out the
clock size and we did a worksheet to work out
where the hours and segments would go.
We used a
protractor, compass and a calculator.
There are 360° in a circle and 12 hours makes
30° for each hour.
Kate
Click here to see our clocks on Flickr
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Christmas Still Life Photos
We make our own Christmas cards every year and last year we
decided to experiment with photography. We each thought of lots of
Christmassy things and chose a still life subject to photograph. We had to
learn to use the new camera and we learned about different settings and how to
take close up photos. We learned about Macro photography which lets you
get really close up to see detail and textures. We practised using the
tripod and different ways of lighting our objects. Most of us used the
timer on the camera along with the tripod to make sure our photos were not
blurry. It was great fun and we plan to do more photography this year.
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Click here to see our photos on Flickr
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The Four Seasons |
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This year we did some work about The Four Seasons for our Spring Display.
We all thought of some pictures that could represent the
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. I
chose lambs, sunbathing, pumpkins and warm clothes for my pictures.
We chose colour schemes for the different seasons like oranges and browns
for Autumn. Sue drew shadows of our faces so we could choose a face to
blow the Autumn wind., and some of us had a go at guessing our faces. We
have apple trees on our allotment so we made 4 apple trees for the seasons with
blossom, apples, autumn leaves and bare branches. We made vegetables growing at
different stages for each season. Nicky |
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Jack and the Beanstalk
We were very busy in the run up to Christmas 2008, producing a
Shadow Puppet Show of Jack and the Beanstalk.
You can see it on YouTube. Don't forget to use your Browser's Back Button
to come back to the Stepping Stones Site.
Click
here to see our
Shadow Puppet Show on You Tube
Part One
Part Two
Part Three |
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3D Plaster Work 2008
Our art and craft projects this year
have been about 3D. We looked at Sculptures around the city. We looked at the
Elephants when they were visiting and all chose a
favourite one. We had a go at making
moulds of our hands using play dough. Then we used plaster to make a model of
our hands
and
we all made faces too. We had to make a mould first using all
sorts of things to make the features. Then we filled it with plaster. We painted our hands and faces.
We have also
made 3D picture frames out of plaster. One student made
his
into a thermometer for a
Mediterranean Garden.
You can see all our frames as a
FLICKR
slideshow by
clicking
here
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Making Felt Bags and Cushions
“Last
year we all did some felt making with Sue. This year we decided to make bags
with our felt squares on the front of our bags. We did different backgrounds to
our bags. Some of us made cushions instead. We picked different designs for our
bags. We picked different colours of the materials for our bags. We all
used the sewing machine. It was the best project we have done. Some of us
enjoyed making our bags. We have done our bags now. They are really good bags.”
Heidi
 
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“I made
a cushion with my felt picture with seals. I chose a blue fabric. Sue helped me
sew my cushion on the sewing machine. The cushions were put on display in the foyer.
I stuffed my cushion with white cotton wadding. When I take it home I will put
it on my bed. I am very pleased with my cushion that I made.”
Nicky
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The 12 Days of
Christmas Stepping Stones Style
Our Christmas art project was The Twelve Days Of
Christmas (According to Stepping Stones). We all helped to re-write the words to
the carol with our own list of presents. We had everything from Twelve Jars of
Chutney to A Plate of Scrumptious Cheese Straws. We had to think of things that
had the same number of syllables as the original verses. We made models for each
verse using different things like card, paint and paper maché. We were all
involved in making the models and I helped to make the jars of chutney for the
last verse, with Chris. We recorded the song too. We used a microphone and sang
the song. We did different verses and some people were brave enough to do solos.
The staff sang too. The final song was mixed on the computers and we decided to
make it all into a DVD with us singing the song to the pictures.
Sang
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Felt Making
Our project for Summer was textiles. We looked at
different fibres used in fabrics from animals, plants and manmade. We looked
at the uses of textiles and we did a survey around the building. We found
lots of objects made from textiles and we looked at fibres through a
microscope, they look really good. Wool was different from the other fibres
as it was scaly – it’s the only fibre that will felt. All other fibres are
spun together to make threads which can either be knitted or woven to make
cloth. Felt is great you can cut it and it won’t fray and you can shape it
to make patterns and pictures. We decided to make felt squares with
pictures. Kate
Click here for FLICKR slideshow
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Christmas
Bowls
In November we decided to make bowls
to put sweets in for Christmas. Some of us brought in our own bowl from
home. We made them with paper maché and it took several turns to get them
right with different glues. We put about 5 layers on the bowls to get them
strong. We then had to think what we were going to put on our bowls for a
design. We have all done our designs as either patterns
or pictures. The bowls were all varnished and we took
them home as Christmas gifts with sweets in to give to our families or
friends. All the bowls looked great. Kate |
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Wild Flower Project |
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This year we decided to do a wild flower
project. We learned about how plants breath and make food as well as looking
closely at all the different parts of flowers. Some of us went to the
library to get books on wild flowers. Sue put different colours in a box so
we could pick out which colour flower to do. I am doing a white wild
flower called Greater Stitchwort. I drew my stems and leaves on a big piece
of paper. We coloured our first pictures with pencil and now we are doing
some really large pictures. We have to look very carefully to get all the
details right. You can see our pictures by
Clicking here for a FLICKR Slideshow |
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Rock Boxes
Using the ideas we saw in the Castle
Museum we printed paper in a rock effect. To get the effect we used all
sorts of things, like special paint brushes, tissue and sponges. Some looks
like Malachite and some like Lapis. One of the objects in the exhibition was
a beautiful cabinet decorated with inlaid precious stones to look like it
was landscapes on each panel. This is what we used as our idea for our Rock
Boxes.
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Art at the Rock Face
We went to Norwich Castle Museum to see an exhibition called Art at the
Rock Face. It was all about how Rocks are used in art and design. We saw
jewellery, ornate books, furniture, sculpture and paintings. This visit led
us on to talk about how rocks are made. We learned about igneous,
metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. We talked about how the earth was made
and also about other planets. We looked at how crystals are formed and did
an experiment with salt. We made pipe cleaner models and stood them in a
strong salt solution to see how the crystals would form.
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Digital Art
We’ve been putting our artistic skills to good use in
ICT, by learning to use some new software. We made patterns using Felt tip pens.
Using the Scanner that we bought with help from the BBC Radio Norfolk Listeners Helpline, we transferred our patterns to the computer. We changed the HUE (Colour)
and used warping effects to change the pattern. The pictures on the right
show one pattern before and after the application of the digital effects.
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Lantern Making
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We have
been working with some new people lately. We have been involved in making
lanterns for
the Waterway Arts Trail
event taking place at the end of May. Sue and Charlotte (from the Making Marks project) came to show us how to
make them. They
will be floated down the river at night on the
26th May. We all had a great
time making the lanterns. We had to use environment friendly
materials, so they would not harm the fish and other things that live in the
river. The
lanterns will look lovely floating down the river.
You can see
all our lanterns in the
Click here for a Slideshow of our lanterns
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Beautiful British Butterflies
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We decided to make
butterflies for the Spring display. We went to the library to find some
books and we found lots. There were so many books that we made page
references so that we could find the information easily when we needed it.
We all chose a different butterfly. I chose a Tortoiseshell. We traced the
shape out of the book and used the projector to enlarge them and drew round
them again. We drew in the shapes and patterns. We coloured them using
felt tips, pencils, paints and crayon. We did both sides of the butterflies.
Then we cut them out and stuck them together. We had to pay close attention
to the shape of the body and the wing shape and the colour and pattern.
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Our Veggie
Survey
We have been doing
a vegetable survey, because when we are cooking we keep forgetting which vegetables
people like and dislike.
So
Sue took us to the library, to get some books on different vegetables. We did a
list of different vegetables and if we like a vegetable we put a tick in the
box, a cross if we don’t like it and a question mark if not sure. Sue gave us
some question sheets on how many people liked the vegetables. Carrots were the
most popular. Then we put the vegetables into different categories -
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Roots and shoots, fruit, seeds plants, stalks, leaves,
and flowers. We had to choose three vegetables, I chose Broccoli,
Fennel and Swede and I drew them. I used paint and pastel crayons to colour
my vegetables. When we finish our vegetables, they will be varnished and mounted on paper ready to be displayed.
You can see the rest of our vegetable
drawings in the
Flickr Slide Show |
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Self Portraits
One
of the projects we have being doing lately is self portraits. Here’s what I
did...
First I drew myself
as I thought I looked from memory. It was very difficult. Afterwards I used a
mirror to draw myself and this looks more like me.
Then I drew Sue.
I did a
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pencil drawing and then I coloured it with oil pastels & did the
background purple. Finally I made the big portrait of myself using every thing I
had learned. This one was painted carefully. Then I had to make the frame.
We went to the castle to look around at picture frames and the different
designs. I drew different shapes and patterns. I chose a diamond shape and it is
a good design. I liked it because it was simple and plain but striking in its
effect. I cut each diamond out of card bent it in the middle and only glued the
middle fold, so the sides stick up. Sue sprayed it gold afterwards. We put the
portraits up in the window and foyer for everyone to see.
Sang
You can see the entire Portrait Collection in the
Flickr Slide show
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Animation
We looked at Animation recently as part of our I.T.
work. We had a go at making our own computer animations using our
names as the subject. You can see what we achieved below...... |
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