We went off on a trip to find
frogspawn today in Bushy park. It did not take too long before we found a clump of jellied frogspawn floating on top of the water, it was in an offshoot pond of a mainpond. We were all sooooo excited to find it, especially after Eden had said there was no way anything would be living in that disgusting water.
The mass of jellied frogspawn that we took our eggs from.
Holding up the jar of 13 eggs. We noticed one of the egg sacs are damaged so we think already that that one won't survive.
A little distance on we came across another little pond, and were astounded that there were literally thousands of eggs on top of the water, all in various stages of development, some looked just about ready for tadpoles to emerge, they were mostly black with very little egg sac around.
Our eggs arrived home safe and sound.
Monet focused on the effect of the light on a scene, and how quickly the light would change a landscape. He tried to capture the effect of the light in his paintings, and would paint the same scene over and over at different times of the day, and at different times of the year. We studied this photo to see how the light had affected the landscape. We tried to capture the colours as closely as we could. Mom printed out the above photo on card, and we painted over the photo with earbuds for the sky, and different thicknesses of paintbrushes to get the brush strokes. We used acrylic paint, and mom mixed most of the colours. We did all of the painting ourselves, and really really enjoyed doing this painting. Thank you Auntie Belinda for taking such a great photo, we would love to come to New Zealand, and can't believe that Rachel was standing right there.
This is Eden's - I really enjoyed doing the mountain on the right, and was really proud at how it turned out, I liked blending the many colours in. I was also happy with how the grass in the front looks.
This is Niamh's.
