My Volcano story

Once open a time there was a mountain  that looked  not at all  IMPORTANT.
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Once there was lava everywere.



Mountains  were created and slowly a volcano was  created. This volcano was the biggest volcano ever!





Bubbling everywhere!

Now the volcano is extinct, small.  Covered with nature, it is Volvic volcano!

Lava Art

Continuing our volcano art we have been looking closely at lava and the rippled patterns that are formed, particularly when set. We have also looked at bubbling hot volcanic mud pools for inspiration.

Here is a slide show of the first stage of our pictures, we have painted a background of molten lava effects on black paper which when dry will be ready for the second layer of textured ripples.

Volcano Art

We have been learning about volcanos as part of our Active Planet topic. It has been fascinating watching short videos of active volcanoes and the different effects and movement of lava. Inspired by this we have created our own volcano paintings exploring lots of different techniques to recreate the effects of an erupting volcano.

Some of the techniques we used were very messy! We dripped, poured, dribbled, blew, flicked and splashed paint onto the paper.

Here are the results:   

Pebble poem

Rough,
Volcanic rock,
Dark to light,
Tiny bits of white,
Pach of red,
Covered with holes

Take a line for a walk

We have had a great time exploring taking a line for a walk.......making curls and zig-zags, not just a straight line!
Using the Primary Colour Wheel as a guide we then filled in the space between the lines with oil pastels.We had to make sure we filled the "inside" and not the "outside".

Have a look at this place.
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

The ocean floor

This is a map of the ocean floor. Click on it.

The river Garonne

This is the river Garonne in Toulouse:

 Here's a map of where it goes:

Here's a NASA photograph from space of where the Garonne meets the sea:

What do you notice?
What do you wonder?

A stream in the forest

Look at the water in this picture of a stream in the Forêt de Bouconne.
What do you notice?
What do you wonder?