Art Collaboration | Colour Blending

For art, we are recreating the cover of the Gruffalo story. The Gruffalo is the text we have been using to visualise, infer and make connections. 

First, we were assigned to seperate parts of the picture in groups. We talked about an art technique with pastels which is called 'blending'. Blending uses multiple colours to create a type of shading that makes the picture look more detailed.

After that, the groups coloured inside the traced lines on the picture. There were rules and exceptions we had to follow such as: black pastel comes last because it is the darkest colour, use a paper towel to blend colours and use a cotton-bud to blend small areas of the picture.

For this task, we collaborated with other groups so that when all the art pieces were done, the end result of the ar picture would fit together neatly.

We enjoyed this art session and practicing the blending technique with pastels. The purpose of this activity is to collaborate with others and understand art methods.

LI: to collaborate and complete a group art-piece.

LI: to practice blending colours using pastels.

Aboriginal Dotted Art

The task for art was to create a story using Aboriginal art.

Aboriginal art comes from Australia. Most of Aboriginal art tells a story and people call these 'Dreamtime stories'. Dreamtime stories have what the Aborigines believe. We watched a video which was called 'How the kangaroo got its pouch'. It is a video that contains aboriginal symbols.

The first thing we did was practising the symbols using dots instead of lines. All of the symbols represent a thing. For example a circle with dots around it is a representation of a star. After practising the symbols we made our good copy.

Our good copy told a story that connected to us. We used paint and cotton tips to create the dots. The majority of the paint took most of the space on the paper.

LI: To create art that tells a story with traditional methods.

Blog Labels

Learning Space 1 are streamlining their blogging and moving towards creating comment threads. To facilitate this process LS1 are going three things:

1. Reducing the labels used to the following: Achievements, Arts, Cybersmart, EotC,HPE, Inquiry, Kiwi Sport, KiwiCan, Manaiakalani, Māori, Maths, Reading, Science, Summer Learning Journey, Technology, Writing
2. Using one of three different test types for posting: recount, information report, explanation
3. Engaging with other bloggers, asking questions, and replying to questions.

Structures and Sunsets; silhouette and collage art

Learning Space 1 have been learning about structures this term. As a part of this unit LS1 did some mixed media art. The learners combined digital art with collage, creating cityscape silhouettes digitally (and subsequently printed) and sunsets / sunrises with collage.

Another learning objective for this term is geometry and measurement. Learners challenged their understanding of 2 dimensional shapes by creating silhouettes of a cityscape using simple geometric shapes. Learners found a photo of an iconic part of a city then, using Google Drawings, overlaid triangles, trapeziums, ovals, and more on the buildings to create the silhouettes. 

 

Learners had a limited colour palette to work with for the sunsets. This meant learners had to adapt their ideas of sunsets to the materials present and choose which colours represented parts of their sunsets the best. Learners also had to use simple geometric shapes to represent shapes seen in sunsets. These shapes were then placed on a black backing.

Some learners were absent on the day LS1 did their art, so were tasked with completing the art entirely digitally using Mr Wong's art as an example to work from.

Pop Art- Self Portrait

LI: To use different techniques to create a visual art piece. This week LS1 had to make a self portrait of their selves. The self portrait of their selves had to be pop art. First Mr. Wong printed photos of us in black and white. Then we had trace over the black and white parts with a blue pen. After that we had to turn the printed paper of us around. After we had to go to a window and sketch the photo of our face. If we went to a window and did it we could see the face of our photo more better. We had to use a pencil and trace it hard. We had to do the tracing side to side. After we finished tracing it Mr. Ogilvie taped the photo of our faces and another piece of paper. After we had to trace the photo again, but with a different coloured pen. We had to press hard. Once we finished tracing the photo we had to give it to Mr. Ogilvie, so he could take the tape off. Once he took the tape of we had to see if our face was traced on the empty piece of paper. If our face wasn't traced on the empty piece of paper we had to restart. Once Mr. Ogilvie finished taking the tape off we could finish off our must do's. On the next day we had to choose a pastel colour and colour the white part in. We had to have the picture of our photo beside us to see the white parts. The pastel colour that I chose was pink. After we coloured in our art we could paint our piece of art. We had to paint the black parts black. After we finished painting it we had to put our art on the trays. We had to wait for a while, so our piece of art could dry. We had to wait for another day. When we waited for another day we had to trace the lines in vivid. Once we finished tracing the lines in vivid we we were finished with our piece of art. 

Maths Art

Last term Mr Wong's maths groups did some cultural maths art. At first we started planning in small groups. We learnt how to transform our arts in 3 different transformations.They were called reflection,transformation, and rotation. Everybody each got 9 pieces of white paper to draw their patterns in. To make it easier some students drew their template pattern in and then traced over it. To do this Mr Wong did a station for people who wants to use paint,dye, or pastels.  

T3 Week 1 Music

  

 

Today at music we did a traditional song from Czechoslovakia. The song involved singing and movements.The song is about a horse. During our music lesson we did ukulele gymnastics which was also fun to do. 

Music W7

For music the year 5s did a piece on ukulele. For the Year 6s we did the last session for ukulele gymnastics. For the next 3 weeks we would be doing dance. We had to put the correct note for each bar of the piece.