Seasonal

Contents
January hallway display: “We’ll frolic and play, the Eskimo way”
Spanish Spring Display – La Primavera
Spring Classroom Displays – Kites
Sunflower display – celebrating family learning
Classroom Displays for Chinese New Year

January hallway display: “We’ll frolic and play, the Eskimo way”

Jan 7

Posted by Linda in Seasonal, halls and corridors, winter | 1 Comment

winter display

Classroom Displays reader Michaele has more about this lovely January display over at her blog Kindergarten’s 3 R’s:. Her kindergarten students were curious about her ethnic origins and spent some time over November and December exploring Eskimo culture. I think this display is a wonderful example of using positive images and information to undermine stereotyping. It’s exactly the sort of thing my NCFE2 teaching assistant students have just been looking for examples of for their Unit 2 assignment. It also shows that even the youngest pupils can benefit from this sort of project work.
“Walking in a winter wonderland…”

My students learned about parkas, mukluks, mittens, and fur ruffs, then colored their own characters, decorating the parka’s qupaks (fancy trim or embellishments), and gluing cotton balls around the coat hood. I left the trees up from December’s display as background, and added white streamer runs of “snow” upon which the Eskimos could play..

She adds that the kindergarten children enjoyed making their own Eskimos and adding them to the display.

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Spanish Spring Display – La Primavera

May 5

Posted by Linda in Seasonal, Spanish | 1 Comment

La Primavera, originally uploaded by lisibo.

Here’s a lovely Key Stage 2 Spanish display for Spring based on the the QCA Spanish KS2 Unit La Primavera.
Lisa says:
The pupils were given an extract of the poem La Primavera by Antonio Machado and rewrote it, giving the daisy a different role.
The extract from the poem was adapted by the pupils, replacing the words highlighted with their own place and role for the daisy (la margarita)

La Primavera
Pupils replaced the word for place, une escuella (a school), with their own choices such as una piscina (a pool), un parque (a park) un supermarcado (a supermarket)

Then una maestra ( a teacher) was changed to la salvavidas-the lifeguard, la dependienta – the shopassistant, la recepcionista – the receptionist etc

The children’s work is really delightful and they’ve obviously taken a lot of pride in producing it.

primavera

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Spring Classroom Displays – Kites

Mar 6

Posted by Linda in Art, KS1, Seasonal, halls and corridors, quick display | 1 Comment

Kites, originally uploaded by LindaH.

Here’s a lovely classroom display idea for a windy March afternoon in Keystage 1:
The background was done onto sheets of A3 white paper with a technique called “bagging”. It’s messy :-)

You need

  • Shallow containers, Plastic paint roller trays work well
  • Blue and white paint (the kind that comes in squeezy bottles) Water it down a little if it seems thick.
  • Crumpled up plastic carrier bags.
  • Lots of newspaper
  • Aprons for the kids
  • 3 helpers – or to be very fast on your feet!
  • Space to put the paper to dry flat. You don’t want drips.
  • Music – optional but fun :-)

    • Instructions

  • Set up 3 trays of paint.
  • Dark blue
  • Light blue (mix some white with it)
  • White
  • 3 tables with a small group of children at each and one tray.

    • Crumple up a carrier bag to make a ball, dip it in the dark blue paint, push it down on the flat bit of the paint tray (if you’ve used one) or onto some newspaper to remove some of the paint and then print onto the paper by dabbing it quickly. You want the bag fairly dry, not overloaded with paint.

  • Remove and replace with the next bit of paper.

    • I said it was messy!

  • The paper is then moved to the light blue table and the process repeated.
  • Finally it moves to the white table and repeat.
  • Paper is removed to flat surface to dry.

    • When all done and dry select best ones for background. Lettering can either be cut from spare sheets or clouds can be cut to show background through.

    The same technique can be used with shades of grey to make clouds.
    Sunny Day
    Or even surf :-)

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    Sunflower display – celebrating family learning

    Feb 11

    Posted by Linda in Art, Family learning, Seasonal | No Comments

    Sunflower display, originally uploaded by LindaH.

    I’m going to do a series of posts highlighting classroom displays for spring over the next week or so. I love this cheery display, it’s an ideal spring display and could be adapted in a number of ways to include class work if used in an older classroom.

    All the things on this display were been made by children (oldest is age 4) and their parents. The families worked with the school learning mentors as part of the family learning initiative.

    The butterflies and bees can be seen in more detail here:
    Sunflowers and Bees - detail

    Julie, a learning mentor said:

    The butterflies proved rather addictive and were great fun to make . Originally the learning mentors made them for a craft stall at the school fair.

    The butterflies were made from clothes pegs and tissue paper squares. Bee wings were made by drawing round children’s feet on wax paper.

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    Classroom Displays for Chinese New Year

    Jan 9

    Posted by Linda in Art, KS1, Seasonal | 3 Comments

    Classroom dragon, originally uploaded by hale_popoki.

    This was the first ever display on the Classroom Displays blog and I thought I’d revive it as it remains one of the best I’ve seen for Chinese New Year.
    Tina said this display was:

    used in our multicultural performance today.
    (After school I removed the grip sticks and hung the dragon up in the classroom.)
    The body is made of paper plates all strung together….one plate for each student (and one for me) Each plate has a self-portrait drawing on it

    She also adds some important advice:

    If you do try it, I’d suggest NOT using tissue paper for the dragon scales. It wrinkles too easily, especially if little ones are handling it.
    Our school colors are red and gold, and the quickest way for me to get the red and gold paper on short notice was to go to the gift wrap section of the local Walgreen’s! However, gold was only available in gift wrap tissue. On the plus side, I used the school die-cutter to cut out the dragon scales, and that was done quickly using the thin tissue paper.
    I think this school year I will try to shop around for inexpensive red and gold wrapping paper around Christmas time. =)
    It took me a lot longer than I thought to string all those plates together (and I crossed my fingers that it wouldn’t fall apart as the students paraded across the stage with it! It didn’t……phew!)

    I’d love to have seen it in action! If you do decide to copy it please let me know here. I’d like to see other people’s interpretations of the dragon.

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