REFLECTING ON OUR ART!

Today was the final day of our Art Inquiry.  We had to REFLECT on what we had learnt and how we had learnt it.

ART - THINK IT GREAT

On Thursday, we took some time to REFLECT on our learning.  We had an organiser to complete for each of our pieces of art.

The organiser helped us think through the criteria that Mrs Peck set us WAY back at the start of the term.  We had to identify the strengths and weaknesses of each of our pieces of art and reflect on what the audience might think of them.

Once we had evaluated each piece, we had to compare our two pieces and decide which piece we wanted to share in the Art Expo.  The other piece, would be the one we share in assembly on Friday.

Our teachers were very impressed with how well we evaluated each piece and that every single one of us was able to state what piece we were exhibiting and why we chose that piece.

We are brilliant art critics now!

Petra, Keira and Samantha evaluating their Bubbly Hydrangea pieces

Connor A thinking about his Monster Building

Hareem and Sofya evaluating their Kiwiana pieces

Mika deep in thought looking at his Patterned Print

Busy thinking...

Deep in conversation about JC's Kiwiana piece

Emily's completed organiser

ASSEMBLY

We had a wonderful time sharing out art with everyone at Assembly today.  

A big thanks to our speakers who worked hard to remember their lines.

  

The children who confidently sung using the microphone.

We were also very proud of the children who received Principal Awards this week.  

 

Well done to all of you!

TROPICAL WILDLIFE

Today we finished our Tropical Wildlife that we started making with Mrs Ruawai last week.  

We glued eyes, legs and feathers on our creations to make them look extra cool.

We are very happy with our finished product and look forward to having them on display at the Art Expo.

MAKE IT MONDAY - PICASSO MASKS

KIWIANA

Finding new ways to frame our art is hard work.  We think this is the perfect boarder for our Kiwiana art though.  Do you agree?

DRAGONFLIES

Our Dragonflies are bright!  We love creating pieces of art when we get to use the dye.

  

But, as you can see, our art doesn't always go to plan.  

PATTERNED FISH

Our patterned fish took a long time to make today but they turned out fantastic.  Mrs Ruawai helped us make them look amazing.  We had to draw our patterns on the fish and then go over the patterns with vivid.  Then we had to colour in the patterns with paint and when they were dry we dyed them.  Took a look!

  

    

 

 

PATTERNED PRINT ART

We used dye, art pencils and vivid to create these wonderful pieces of art with Mrs Ruawai.  Look at all the patterns we put on our fish.

 

PRINTED LANDSCAPE

Mrs Ruawai showed us how to draw prints on old meat trays.  Then we cut them out and covered them in black ink.  Look at what we were able to make.

 

GEOMETRY AND PATTERN AND ALGEBRA

As part of our Art inquiry, we are looking into Geometry, and Pattern and Algebra.  Here are some photos of us busy learning last week.  Karys and Bentley are completing colouring in a complex geometric pattern...

The boys are using shapes to fill in a tan-gram...

Connor and Regan are busy sorting art pictures by their elements...

Connor and Tasman are practising making repeating patterns out of coloured beans.  They were able to tell the teachers the rules for these patterns.  

For example:  the rule for yellow, yellow, blue is AAB.

Ms Palmer was helping to teach the kids all about symmetry.  If something is symmetrical, what is on one side is reflected onto the other side.  These kids were challenged to make symmetrical pizzas!

The look good enough to eat!

Well done Georgia and Jacob.

Check out Emily's completed pattern picture!  

Perfect!

You could help us at home by getting us to use objects around the house to make symmetrical patterns.

For example...