1. WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT!

4. We set off on a Bear Hunt which lasted for 4 weeks!!!

5. UH-UH! GRASS! LONG WAVY GRASS.

6. We took digital video and stills cameras to film the dune grass at Backaskaill Bay.

7. Some grass was “sharp.”

8. Some grass was “spiky, like a hedgehog.”

9. Some grass was “scruffy.”

10. Some grass was “making crosses.”

11. Is that a bear hiding in the grass?

12. Swishy swashy.

13. It was a “beautiful day!”

14. When we got back to Nursery we made a grass collage.

15. We took turns to use the trimmer to cut the paper strips.

17. We used lots of glue to stick the strips in place.

18. Sometimes the paper did not stick where we wanted it to!

19. We put our collage and photographs on display.

20. Van Gogh We looked at the painting “ WHEAT FIELD WITH CROWS” by Vincent Van Gogh

21. We projected part of the image onto a large sheet of paper and used finger paints to copy it.

22. We painted yellow wheat…

23. and a brown cart track.

24. We were very proud of our finished painting!

25. So the next day we all painted our own copies.

28. UH-UH! MUD! THICK OOZY MUD.

29. We took digital video and stills cameras to film the mud at North Loch.

30. Some mud was quite firm

31. Some mud was very wet

32. Some mud was shallow

33. Some mud was very deep!

34. We experimented making mud with compost….

35. It was very squishy

36. Look! Black hands…

37. We experimented making mud with clay…

39. It was very dirty work.

41. We made our own splashy pictures by using a pipette to squirt black paint onto the paper, then we dragged string through the paint.

44. We worked together to make a large squirty picture

45. We used squeezy bottles filled with paint

46. It was very, very messy…

47. … but looks amazing!

48. We then tried “Mud Bomb Painting” The paper was clean to begin with …

49. … but got messier…

50. … and messier…

51. … and messier…

52. … and messier…

53. DONE!

54. For our next muddy picture we changed into old shorts and t-shirts

55. We started with a piece of clean carpet…

56. We used our feet to paint

57. We used our hands to paint

58. We used our hands and feet together

59. Our picture looked beautiful. But did we stop painting?

60. NAH!!! - we started to roll!

61. We painted ourselves…

62. … and each other!

63. And just when the adults thought that we had finished…

64. … we began again!

65. Eventually, we washed ourselves clean.

66. Our picture looked very muddy and we had great fun making it.

67. UH-UH! A RIVER! A DEEP COLD RIVER.

68. We took digital video and stills cameras to film the water at Bridgend. We saw…

69. “ reflections” “light”

70. “ sparkle water” “ripples”

71. “ shining, moving” “crunchy”

72. “ Splishy splashy swishing”

73. “ brown water”

74. “ bubbling” “plop”

75. Some water was weedy

77. We placed strips of tissue paper over one of our black and white photographs

78. When it was covered we sprayed it with lots of water

79. We peeled the tissue paper off to make our beautiful watery pictures

82. We painted our own rippley water picture

83. We made a reflection collage…

84. … it sparkles with the colours of the rainbow.

85. It was fun using a watercolour paint programme to colour over “Water Lilies (The Clouds)”

86. “ Water Lilies (The Clouds)” By Sanday Nursery Class

87. We used chalks to make water lily pictures.

91. We took digital video and stills cameras to film the “forest” in the school plantation. We saw…

92. … knobbly trees

93. Branches that were long, straight and tall

94. Leaves that were sharp and spiky

95. Leaves that were floppy and soft

96. Some trees were brown and did not have any leaves at all

97. Some trees poked up into the sky

98. Some places in the forest were “crissy crossy … like a spider’s web!”

99. Some places were sparkling bright

100. Some branches were twisted

102. … we made a leafy forest collage

103. Next we used chalks and charcoal…

104. … to make stumble trip forest pictures

107. Paulo Uccello also painted a picture of a forest… “ Hunt” by Paulo Uccello

108. We looked carefully at the tree then…

109. ..we worked together to make a dark forest collage

110. UH-UH! A CAVE! A NARROW GLOOMY CAVE.

111. We went to the caves near Doun Helzie.

112. Some caves had beautiful coloured rocks …

113. ...red…

114. … green…

115. … red and green.

116. The rocks were beautiful shapes…

117. … and some had lovely patterns.

118. If you look carefully some stones even look like bears

119. We peeped through the cracks in the rocks.

120. We went inside some caves and…

121. … it was very dark, so…

122. … we looked out.

123. When we looked inside one cave we found….

124. Two big furry ears, two big goggly eyes, one wet nose – OH NO IT’S A BEAR

125. IS IT A BEAR?

126. NO, IT’S,LOTS OF BEARS

127. They were just like pre-historic cave paintings

128. When we got back to Nursery we displayed our work in the hall. What a lots of picture we had made ! LONG WAVY GRASS.

129. A DEEP COLD RIVER.

130. THICK OOZY MUD.

131. A BIG DARK FOREST.

132. We were now ready to begin working with Gael Force winds.

133. Liz played the flute and the tiny, high pitched piccolo

134. Ruth played the black clarinet

135. Alison played the big, deep sounding bassoon

136. Primaries 1, 2 and 3 played percussion and we sang and marched whilst our video film was projected onto the wall behind us

137. “ WE’RE GOING ON A BEAR HUNT” Performed by Sanday Nursery, P1, P2 and P3 Classes together with Liz Dooner (flute), Ruth Ellis (clarinet), Alison Green (bassoon) and Peter Sparkes (education officer SCO) SANDAY COMMUNITY SCHOOL JUNE 2005

139. … or perhaps we will. It was great fun!