To finish off their work on teddies, Year 1 tried their own Zentangle ones. A Zentangle is a doodle-like picture, where you split an image into sections. Each section has a different pattern and is usually completed in black and white.
The children had a go on their whiteboards:
The children then drew a simple teddy outline in pencil, before going over it with a black felt pen, filling in their different sections with some great patterns. They didn't quite finish them, so took them home to complete them there.
Rose nipped around, getting all the best ideas from the children to start her own one!
Not only are the Year 4 children expressing themselves through visual art, but they are also using music as a stimulus for art and as a way of expressing feelings, moods emotions and ideas.
Kandinsky's own work was very much linked to music.
As a warm up the children listened to 4 different pieces of music, deciding which kind of lines, shapes and colours went with them.
They then looked at an abstract picture, deciding in groups how to represent the feeling/mood of the picture through sound.
Each group worked together to compose and perform their own pieces.
Year 4 continued their musical adventures with a Conductive Music Workshop, where Science and Music came together.
Check out more about the project here: @ConductiveMusic
