Year 4 Chinese Brush Painting

Year 4 Chinese Brush Painting

We have been busying learning how to correctly and accurately create images using the Chinese brush painting method. This method uses brush strokes to produce a painting that is neither improved nor corrected.  Additionally, rather than looking at the subject as we painted, we had to bring the painting forth by using our minds and heart. We have learned that the Chinese artists, who specialise in brush painting, are very passionate about their outcomes. We created a range of paintings including; horses, flowers, frogs and fish.

Year 4 Chinese Cooking Creations!

Today in Year 4 we enjoyed cooking our Spring Rolls! 

Having tasted the different ingredients earlier in the week to see which ones we liked, we have then been planning which foods we wanted to include in our spring rolls.

First of all we had to prepare all of the different vegetables. Some of us chopped, while others grated.

Then we fried our vegetables and rolled them in filo pastry before baking them.
Here's what some of them came out like! 

A taste of China...'sparkling' into the New Year!

Our topic in Year 4 this term is China! 

Today we tried tasting some different ingredients that you might find in Chinese meals. Some of the foods we liked, but others we weren't so sure on...

To support our topic, in English we will be reading The Firework Maker's Daughter, by Phillip Pullman. So we also had a go at designing some firework pictures. First of all, we used wax crayons to colour our pages in many different colours, before painting over them with black paint. 

  

After the paint had tried, we used cocktail sticks to scratch off some of the black paint and reveal the colours underneath to create our firework pictures. 

Here are some of our designs.