Our theme in 5th class for October was Africa. We’ve been focusing on a different continent every month and we’re looking forward to showing you our work on Asia next month.
Our big focus was a collaborative art project. We drew the outline of Africa and of all the borders of the African states. We used this tool from Class Tools to choose the countries that we were going to research.
We researched the African states using this website. Our criteria for success was to write the name of the country, draw the flag of the country and two other pictures to represent that country. Some of us chose musical instruments, footballers, tourist attractions and animals to represent our states. When we finished our chosen country, we worked together to complete the other countries.
We learned a lot about Africa and we completed our display with our favourite facts from our unit.
In Music, we learned the song ‘Circle of Life’ – we were focusing on texture and learning to sing the accompaniment to the song.
Experimenting with our clay
Painting the clay (in Halloween costumes)
In Art, we worked with clay to create African inspired masks. We also worked with paint and colour to create Serengeti sunsets.
