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!

Lighthouses

Today at school we started making our lighthouses for our Electronic Circuits unit. We had to make a circuit that would make a light shine. Then we started to make our lighthouses using bottles, containers and the circuit. We are doing paper mache overtop so that later on in the week when it is all dry we will be able to paint them. Here are some photos to show you what we have been doing so far. Photos of the finished product will be on here later!

Electronics - Circuits

Today at school we had a man called Mr Rogers come in and talk to us about circuits. He bought in some of his special kits that we were allowed to use to make up our own circuits. We got to experiment with different things to see what electricity could run through. We found out that the circuit would work if we used: earrings, scissors, shaperners, hairties, staples, tin foil, rings, keys, braclets, gunstapler, watch, hairclips. It was heaps of fun experimenting to see what would work and what wouldnt. Here is a video of one of the groups making a long circuit to make a light shine.

Art Suite

This term in the Art Suite we are making cushions. We are using a new method of Batik which is easy to use and mess free. We are using flour and water mix. For our first session in the Art Suite we had to draw different kinds of fish and choose one drawing we would use for our cushion. Then we had to transfer the picture onto the template we were using. Once we had drawn on our template we taped a piece of Calico material overtop of our template. Then we had to use the flour and water mix in a little squeeze bottle to make our print. Here are some photos to show you what we have done so far. Keep an eye out for more photos once we have been to our next Art Suite sessions.

We had to draw a fish first.

We drew lots of different kinds of fish before we decided what one we would put on our cushion.

Then we used the flour and water for the batik.

Ready to try and be painted during our next Art Suite Session.