Africa Art

This week we learnt about the importance of masks in African culture.  We made some masks in art using contrasting coloured paper.  We cut our masks out one side of the paper and then flipped them over on to the other coloured paper.  We has to think about drawing stylised eyes and mouths etc. We [...]

Kenya Group’s blog

hi,
we have been learning about kenya.We are doing research about Kenya and what kind of things happen.We have also learnt to do note taking and we found out that Mount Kenya is the second biggest mountain in Africa.The Equater runs through Kenya and other countries.The different langauges they speak are English and kiswahili.The capital city [...]

Libya Group’s blog

This week we are learning how to do Africa dances and did you know there is 1.700000 people in libya thats alot.We also learnt how to take notes.Did you know that Africas money is in rands.We can name over 23 contrys for example Sudan,Libya,Nigeria,Kenya,Madagasgar,Botsowana,Egypt,Sychells,Cameroone ec.Did you know Libya is the17th biggest country in the world.
Thank [...]

Madagascar group’s blog

This week we learned about note taking and abriveation. Yesderday we made we made up an African dance it was fun. we can name over 20 countrys in Africa. We learned that Madagascar is the forth largest island in the world. Madagascar people speak malagasy and french. There is 3 oceans and 2 seas round [...]

African Dancing

This week we have been learning some dances.  We learnt a traditional Scottish celidh dance called the Eva 3 Step.  Then we tried to add some African moves into it.  We were thinking about African warrior poses.  Here is a website that shows some traditional African dancing and teaches some of the moves:
http://www.africadance.dk/en/video/
Hopefully we will [...]