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In art, we have been studying Pablo Picasso. This portrait shows side and front views of a face. Oil pastels have been used to give a vibrant finish.

Today, we finished the weather station project. This post is about all the changes made since the last weather station post. First, we added 3 change nodes to the flow to select which piece of information we wanted from the message we received from the MQTT broker. Then, we swapped the debug node for a … Read more

Here is our brand new weather station. The plastic box houses the sensor, microcontroller and USB connector (for power). This photo shows us testing the weather station. Here, the weather station is connected up in the shed. Now, we can monitor the weather. The flow lets us know what the weather station is publishing, on … Read more

First, we watched a video which showed us how to mix oil paints: we spread the first colour downwards until there is a finger space-sized gap between the colours we want to mix, next we spread the second colour upwards. Then, I mixed the greens for the cucumber, except for the seed colour. Next, using … Read more

Vincent was a post-impressionist painter meaning he painted objects and gave you a feel of how it looked. He used oil paint. Unlike Monet, Vincent didn’t use colours you would expect: he loved bright colours. He also had a little brother called Theo. Today, I made a practice sketch of my picture. My sketch was … Read more

Soil sampling is when you dig a pit to see what layers are in the ground. In the woods, you would normally find litter, humus, sub-soil and parent material. Litter is leaves and sticks on top of the ground. Humus is the rotted down litter and dead animals. Sub soil is under the humus. The … Read more

On our walk, we looked at a badger sett. Badgers eat lots of different foods. They are omnivorous. They eat honey, slugs, bird eggs, and more. Badger setts are normally near a slope so water can drain away, keeping the set dry. The sett has more than one entrance; they are on different levels to … Read more

Before we went for a walk, I started decorating our woodland Christmas tree. Then, we went for a walk. First, we stopped at the wasp nest where I got stung 7 times! Next, we looked for the nest where Billy, our dog, got stung by hornets three years ago. On our way back up, we … Read more

We are trying to use as least plastic as possible, but we have to get our milk in plastic containers. Mum saved two plastic bottles. We used the first to make a house for my cuddly, Dotty. First, Mum cut a hole in it so I can put Dotty in. Then, I put Dotty in … Read more