{"id":2965,"date":"2009-12-08T21:24:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T02:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2009-12-08T21:24:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T02:24:19","slug":"mother-natures-beautiful-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-2\/mother-natures-beautiful-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Nature&#039;s Beautiful Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2967\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"yr2-mother-nature-1-2009\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/yr2-mother-nature-1-2009.jpg?resize=460%2C314\" alt=\"yr2-mother-nature-1-2009\" width=\"460\" height=\"314\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Year 2 have been looking at patterns in \u2018mother nature\u2019. Take a look at a <a title=\"Mother Nature's Design\" href=\"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/slideshows\/G2\/yr2-mother-nature-2009\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow<\/a> of their pencil, computer and printed patterns.<\/p>\n<p>First they went on an adventure walk down to &#8220;Flamingo Pond&#8221;.\u00a0 There they collected lots of natural materials.<\/p>\n<p>Using magnifying glasses they looked carefully at the patterns that they found in the collected natural materials. They learned how to use pencils in different ways and copied some of the patterns they could see.<\/p>\n<p>Later, they used these patterns to test their \u2018control\u2019 skills on the computer and re-created their original natural designs using the different tools in the \u2018Paint\u2019 program.<\/p>\n<p>After this they cut an orange in half and looked carefully at the beautiful natural design inside (Then they ate it&#8230;yummy!!!)\u00a0 Again, using their new found pencil skills they made a template of the patterns that they found and used the template to create a print, (Cor!\u00a0 This bit was really exciting!)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, they used all of their studies and produced a \u2018mother nature\u2019 collage.\u00a0 We think they turned out great\u2026 who would have thought there were so many patterns in all the natural things around us!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year 2 have been looking at patterns in \u2018mother nature\u2019. Take a look at a slideshow of their pencil, computer and printed patterns. First they went on an adventure walk down to &#8220;Flamingo Pond&#8221;.\u00a0 There they collected lots of natural materials. Using magnifying glasses they looked carefully at the patterns that they found in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}