Autumn in Room 9

We have tried to capture autumn by using our five senses.  Please enjoy reading some of the children's beautiful poetry about "Autumn".

Autumn

Sad wet grass was sodden like ice.

Big raindrops fall on me.

I see green and brown leaves

Wobbling on the branches.

Wind pushing in my hair like mum

Putting her hands in my hair.

                               Dylan Allum (7 years)

Autumn

 Cold winter breeze on my face

Shivering like icicles in a freezer,

Ginormous old trees

Blowing in the strong wind,

While the leaves float to the ground.

Big trees rustling on the roof

Like possums zigzagging.

Rotting leaves stuck into the ground,

Tasting warm marshmallows in my mouth.

                                        Isaac McConachie (7 years)

Autumn

Cold icy dreamy wind blowing in my face,

I see coloured red leaves lying on the ground;

Waiting to be stomped in.

Wind rustling, whistling,

Moving like an earthquake

I taste warm pumpkin soup,

I smell fresh minty air.

                          Amanda Dissanayake (7 years)

Autumn

Whirling, twirling wind

Sends shivers down my spine

Like eating frosty cold ice cream,

Bronze brown leaves

Wiggling and jiggling

Falling from trees,

Smelly smoke rising

From small black holes of chimneys,

Rustling bustling leaves from the no longer sea green bushes

Nice hot chocolate

Spreading sweetness and warmth

To my frosty cold mouth

                             Julia Worthington (7 years)

Autumn

Glorious, gorgeous coloured leaves

Red, yellow, orange, green and brown,

Looking like patterned wings of a butterfly,

Old stinky chimney’s choking out smoke,

The cold breeze nearly lifting me off my feet,

As I‘m crunching on top of the leaves.

                                      Honour Birks (7 years)

How we made our Artwork!

I know we have already left autumn for the year but I thought I would share with you all some of the wonderful artwork the children have created.  This art took a lot longer than expected but it was well worth the wait.

The children have completed this artwork in stages.  First of all they spent a few sessions making observational drawings of different types of autumn leaves. They were looking carefully at the detail and patterns on the leaves.

The children then spent a session using autumn coloured waxed crayons to completely colour in an A3 page (they definitely built up a few extra arm muscles with the pressing heavily of the crayons on this one!).

Next the children painted their artwork completely black with using a mixture of black powdered paint, dishwashing liquid and water.

Finally the children etched into their artwork their amazing leaves, focussing on the different patterns.  They left a black outline around the leaves then spent quite a while scratching off the rest of the black paint to bring through the autumn colours.  Here are the finished pieces of work.