We loved learning about Vincent Van Gogh and how he painted his famous sunflower picture using colour and texture.  We were really lucky because we went to pick our own sunflowers from our own field  to paint in the classroom, just like Van Gogh.  Our paint was extremely thick so that it showed our brush strokes and gave texture.  Look at the photograph below, it shows all of our sunflowers in a big golden vase.  We think they look beautiful!

Learning about the Great Fire of London was very exciting because we learned lots of facts and also had our very own Great Fire of London! In pairs we designed and made our own timbre framed houses from 1666.  Then we lined them all up on the playground into our very own Pudding Lane (we even had Thomas Farynor's bakery!)  Finally . . . . . WE SET FIRE TO THEM! We watched them burn until all that was left were ashes! 

After watching the fire we talked about our feelings and wrote letters to friends or family as if we were a child in London at the time of the fire.

We read a story called 'The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark' and it was all about a baby barn owl named Plop.  We found a letter down the woodland walk addressed to Red Class and we were very excited! Guess who it was from . . . . you'll never guess! It was from . . . PLOP!

Plop asked us to make a tree house for him and make it light up because he was afraid of the dark. We worked in small groups to design and make our very own tree houses using junk material and modroc.  When they had dried we painted them to look like real trees and then we added amazing things like signs, swings, slides, ladders, landing cushions and extra branches.  Finally we lit them up with a circuit just like Plop had asked. What a lucky baby barn owl Plop is! 

Click on the photos below to see our tree houses much bigger.

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