Puppets ~ Class 2

In class 2 we have been using our sewing skills to make a hand puppet out of felt. Firstly we drew our designs on paper, then we made our puppets and lastly we evaluated them, thinking about how we could improve them and what we liked best about them. Our designs are based on characters from traditional tales, can you guess who they all are?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas .. already??




Will Simpson

 



Annie Pasquato



Jasmin Sharma-Slessor



Jack Pinnington

Beau Harrison



Tom Jayne



Martha Capitano

Daisy Pennells

Ferdi Ahmed





Joe Mills



Chocolate Wrappers ~ Class2

In class 2 we have been finding out about chocolate and how it is made. We have been collecting wrappers from our favourite chocolates and in art we have been copying the style and colour of the graphics.

 

Alex Francis Age5 

 

Eleanor Hammond Age 6

 

 

Erika Sykes Age 6

 

 Esme Rae Age 5

  

 

Harriet Paley Age 6

 

 

 Hugo Pears Age 5

 

 

 

Jake Aspden Age 5

 

James Jarvis Age 6

 

Jasmine Smitten Age 6

 

Kyra Wilcox Age 6

 

Libby Forster Age 6

 

Oliver Warren Age 6

 

Rey Smith Age 6

 

 

Rosie Rowlands Age 6

Teddy Bears~ Class 2

In class 2 we have been looking at old and new teddy bears and comparing them. We have been finding out about the history of  teddy bears and we have been doing some detailed drawings.

We found out that Margarete Steiff made the very first teddy bears. She enjoyed sewing and used leftover bits of fabric to make stuffed toys. She made elephants, bears, dogs and donkeys.

 

She started making toy animals that had moving joints and one day an American came along and ordered 3000 of Margarete's new toys.

 

 



Everyone loved the Steiff bears. You can still buy them today and they have a special button in one ear so people know they have been made by the Steiff company.

 

 

So why are toy bears called teddy bears?

 

When Theodore Roosevelt was the President of the United States of America he enjoyed hunting bears with his friends. The presidents friends called him Teddy which is short for Theodore.

One day he was out hunting and hadn't managed to shoot anything. His friends didn't want him to go home without getting a bear so they chased a black bear and tied it to a tree so it couldn't get away and went to find the president. What do you think happened next?

When the president saw the bear he refused to shoot it and made his friends let it go. After that, because the president had saved the bear, toy bears in America were called Teddy's Bear-or Teddy Bear for short....

 

....and that's how the teddy bear got it's name!



We hope you enjoyed looking at our Teddy Bears!