Year 2 have been looking at patterns in ‘mother nature’. Take a look at a slideshow of their pencil, computer and printed patterns.
First they went on an adventure walk down to “Flamingo Pond”. There they collected lots of natural materials.
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.
Later, they used these patterns to test their ‘control’ skills on the computer and re-created their original natural designs using the different tools in the ‘Paint’ program.
After this they cut an orange in half and looked carefully at the beautiful natural design inside (Then they ate it…yummy!!!) 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! This bit was really exciting!)
Finally, they used all of their studies and produced a ‘mother nature’ collage. We think they turned out great… who would have thought there were so many patterns in all the natural things around us!