Picasso Portraits

During Term 3 in the art suite we were creating our own Picasso inspired portraits. We had to learn how to mix prime colours to make other colours and we also learnt how to blend our paints properly on the paper. The portraits look really effective and are awesome hanging up on our wall in the class.

Making Ice Cream

This term we have been looking at production and process and changes in food. We have been looking at the different stages that foods go through. For a treat one day Miss Lind bought in the ingredients to make homemade Ice Cream. We had to put some ice and some rock salt into a big bag and then put some milk, sugar and vanilla essence into a small bag. We put the small bag into the big bag and then had to shake and shake and shake. It took us a while and we all got sore arms after all the shaking but when we got to eat the ice cream it was really nice. None of us had made ice cream before so we didnt know if it would work but when it did we were really happy.

Our Olympic Day

On August 8th we had our own Olympic Ceremony at school. Each class was given a different country to represent and we all dressed up and had a parade of the countries in the hall. Room 13 dressed up as Norway and we got our faces painted. We also had a show of the different sports being played at the olympics and the house captains said the olympic oath and took down the banner. We also had a torch bearer relay. We had medals to give out for the best dressed classes. Room 1 came 3rd as Australia, Room 9 came 2nd as Japan and Room 16 came 1st as Jamacia. It was such a great day!!!

Raincoat BP Technology Challenge.

On Friday 1st August the Taranaki Syndicate had a syndicate wide BP Technology Challenge afternoon. The children were split into groups of 5 or 6 and were all given 6 plastic bags, 2 meters of sellotape and 1 pair of scissors. Their challenge was to make a raincoat to protect them from the rain. One person in each group had to be able to wear it. The kids had heaps of fun making their raincoats. All of the raincoats were modelled for the rest of the syndicate at the end of the day then the teachers chose the best one from each class. The people wearing those ones had to walk around the courts 3 times so we could see if they raincoats were durable and wouldnt fall apart. Mr Dickey also got the house out to test that they would keep the rain out. It was a great afternoon! Here are some of the photos:

Woven Koru

Miss Lind saw some cool Koru designs in the holidays and came back to show us. We thought that they looked pretty cool too so we decided to make them ourselves. We had to weave our backgrounds first and then had to draw a koru design that we could cut out of the black paper to put overtop of the weaving. Here are some for you to have a look at.

Newspapers

We are now back at school for term 3. For the beginning of the term we are using the Newspapers In Education resource as our reading programme. Each child gets a newspaper every day and there are activities related to the newspaper and a story that is written in the paper especially for the children. Room 13 is loving making their way through the papers and completing the activities. Here we are hard at work.

Our Culture Swap Powerpoints

When we had been to every country in our syndicate wide culture swap we took our passports with us to the computer suite. When we were in the computer suite we had to turn the information in them into a powerpoint presentation. We learnt how to hyperlink and 'spruce up' our presentations. You can have a look at some of the presentations by going to our class knowledgenet page. Here is the link to take you there Greenpark KnowledgeNET

Aboriginal Masks

This term in the Art Suite we are making Aboriginal Masks. This is to carry on with our topic of different cultures that we have been studying. When we went to the Art Suite yesterday we were making the templates for our masks and were starting to use the paper mulch to make our features that are going to stand out. We will keep updating our blog with the different stages that we are at during our mask making. Here are some photos from yesterday.

Trip to Art Gallery and Library

On Friday 20 June we went on a trip to the Art Gallery in town and the public Library. We caught a bus down there. When we got there we went to the Library first where one of the Librians took us on a tour of the Library and then shared some books with us. It was cool getting to look at some new books and to see how different parts of the Library works. Then we had morning tea on the grass area beside the Art Galley. After morning tea we got to go to the Art Gallery. We went upstairs and looked at one of the sculptures that was made out of a chair. It looked cool. After we had talked about a few of the different pieces of art we got to go into the classroom and create our own sculpture out of spoons and forks. That bit was really cool. Then we got to draw 2 pictures, one drawing spoons and forks and the other was drawing the shadows of the spoon when we held it above the piece of paper. We got to bring them back to school with us to finish them. Our favourite part was when we got to walk through Big Red! It was kind of scary, but also really cool. It was a great day. Thanks to the people at the Library and the Art Gallery for showing us around.

Japanese Kites

We made Japanese Fish Kites when we went to Japan for our culture swap. They are cool and bright hanging up in our classroom. We had to paint our kites and then fold and stuff them. Where are we going to next?!?!

Hieroglyphics

When we went toEgypt, we got to look at the writing style 'Hieroglyphics'. We were able to write our name in Hieroglypics. It was heaps of fun trying to write our name in a different way. It looks a lot different from how we write!

Aboriginal Art

This term we are looking at cultures and traditions from different countries around the world. We are having a syndicate wide culture swap where we are 'travelling' around to different countries. When we are 'travelling' to a different class/country we are learning some information from the different countries and then we are doing an art activity from that country. When we 'traveled' to Australia with Mrs Valois, we did some Aboriginal Art. They look awesome hanging up in our class. Keep an eye out for the other art that we have done from other countries as we go around them.

Cross Country

On Wednesday we had the school Cross Country. We had great weather for it and everyone was excited about running the course. We have been training for it al term and it was awesome to see the huge efforts that everyone put in and to see that the training had helped us!

Cory in our class came first for the year 4 boys and Eden came 6th for the year 4 girls.

Here are some photos of our day

Book Day

Last week it was book week at school. On Friday we had our character dress up day. It was heaps of fun seeing everyone in their different character costumes for the day. Even the teachers got dressed up. We had a parade in the hall for the morning where everyone went up on stage and prizes were awarded for the best dressed character.

ANZAC DAY

On Friday 25th April it is ANZAC Day. We will be on school holidays for this day, so we have made our poppies to help remember our ANZACs today. For those of you who don't know what ANZAC stands for it is Australian and New Zealand Amy Corps. Here is a photo of our poppies that we made for our class tribute.

Cushions in the Art Suite

On Wednesday we finished our cushions that we have been making in the Art Suite. They look fantastic!!! For our last session we had to sew them up and stuff them. A great big THANK YOU to our mums and grandmas that came in to help with the sewing! Here are some photos for you too see what great artists we are!