Olivia's Waste Poster

Peer Assessment

Our Romero Britto Inspired Art work on PhotoPeach

Drawing & Colouring Our Hearts, Peacock or Cats (Romero Britto)

Room 13 are signing their class treaty.

Rights & Responsibilities

We had a discussion about what we want our class to be like this year, so we can all get the most out of our time at school and have fun!  We also discussed what our responsibilities are so we can achieve this.

Britto Mixed Media

Stage One: Background & Assembling

Today we began our art work for the Wanaka A & P Show.  We  printed 4 coloured squares each ready to assemble tomorrow.  Tomorrow we will glue them onto a square piece of paper.  Our next step is to draw a Britto inspired cat, parrot or heart.  

Our WALTs are...

WALT...use  LINE and SPACE, so that I CAN create POP ART in the style of ROMERO BRITTO 

(I’ll know I have it when I have my drawing contains patterns and is outlined with thick, black lines like Britto’s art)

WALT...learn about ARTIST ROMERO BRITTO and how he creates POP ART

Romero Britto

Romero Britto is a Brazilian artist. He was born in 1963 in grew up an extremely modest lifestyle amongst eight brothers and sisters in Recife, Brazil. His drew and painted on any scrap of newspaper or cardboard he could find and filled them with colourful images of a beautiful world.  
In 1983 Britto travelled to Europe to study the old masters. After this trip, he traveled to the USA where Pop Art was flourishing. He opened a gallery in Miami. In 1989,Absolut Vodka selected Britto to design an artwork with their famous logo. From that moment the name Britto was known to a greater public. His artworks are now represented in galleries and museums across five continents.

KWHL Chart

KWHL Chart  
We used a KWHL chart to organise our thinking.  See our WALTs below.

WALT… use a graphic organiser (KWHL chart) to find out what we know, what we want to find out, how we can find out and what we learned about ‘The 4 Rs & waste  as  part of the ‘Find It’ stage of our inquiry

… plan and gather information so we can organise our thinking

K      What we know about waste and the 4 Rs

W  What do we want to find out about waste and the 4 Rs?

H  How can we learn more about waste and the 4 Rs?

L     What we learned about waste and the 4 Rs?

Throwing & Catching

Physical Education - Throwing & Catching Skills

On Friday we began our skill sessions for throwing & catching a small ball. We will add some photos this week. We have some children with excellent throwing and catching skills. These children become our models to demonstrate to the class.  We followed our skills session with a game where we got to practise the skills. The game was called 'Spring Cleaning'. We stopped the game at different times so that we could discuss how we were going, and how we could adapt the rules to make it better to play, as well as fairer for all.

If you want to help at home, here are the preparation, propulsion and follow through steps for the overarm throw, and the catching steps as well.

Overarm Throw

• Stands side on to direction of throw
• Throwing arm moves in a downward and backward arc
• Opposite foot to throwing arm steps forward
• Hips then shoulders rotate forward
• Elbow bends as throwing arm moves behind head
• Forearm and hand lag behind upper arm
• Throwing arm follows through across body

Catching

• Arms straight in front until ball contact, then scooping action to chest - feet stationary
• Ball is "hugged" to chest- feet are stationary or may take one step
• Arms "scoop" under ball, single step may be used to approach ball
• Catch with hands only. Feet stationary or limited to one step (make birds nest to catch ball in)
• Catch with hands only and let arms drop while body moves through space

Daisy & Bonnie's Game

Sara inspired Daisy and Bonnie so they decided to design a game.  They used their 'fast finisher' time to work on this.  They presented it to the whole class.  Well done!

Sara's Game

It is always rewarding to see students doing extra work at home.  Well done Sara, we loved your game.  Very creative.  We can'ts wait to play it this week.  

Check out our writing.  

We have been learning to...

 Paint a picture, with our words

 Show don’t just tell

The waves were throwing themselves all over me like crashing vases.  Ben

Ducks drifting over the waves, little waves rushing out of the motor.  I am smashing into the hard concrete water.  Lucia

Grass swaying, fish jumping, I could tell it was going to be a great day.  Hudson

The icy water is waiting for me to jump into.  I closed my eyes and just jumped in!  My feet were numb and my lips were purple.  I couldn’t believe I was actually in the water. Daisy

I was so sweaty and there was a haze in front me…  Otis

The boat was zooming past the mountains, within a flash the boat was past Ruby Island.  Bonnie

Puffing, I drag my feet the sun beams right down on me.  Sarah

My hands are slipping and sliding over the giant rainbow trout's scales.  The sun is glistening on me, I feel like I am melting in an oven.  Ryan

The boats were zooming past.  The water was smashing into my legs.  Finn

The waterslide sounded like a waterfall.  It was twisty like a snake.  Ethan

I jumped inside the wake.  I motored across the wake.  Rocco

Water showering my knees as water drifted across the surface.  The smell of burnt petrol rises from the engine.  Rylan

The grey rocks glowed like ghosts as they lay on the damp wet ground.  Zoe

My tounge sticks out in a flash!  I start to lick my yummy choc bar. The cold ice cream is starting to melt in my mouth. Mila

The crystal clear lake was in front of eyes.  The sun is burning my arms. Olivia

The huge jaggered mountains were packed with falling snow.  My hands were shaking and my toes were turning blue.  Jaime

Come and in see our writing books in class to read  the whole piece of writing!!

Jaime's Online Art

View Jamie's art work on the Picassohead site by clicking on his picture
 

Art Self Assessment - Art & Me!

Today we assessed our art work.  This assessment included how we feel about art and how good we think we are.  What a lot of budding artists we have!  We also did a 2 stars and a wish self assessment about our Picasso Faces.  This is all about what we did  well or what we were most proud of.  The wish part is all about what we can improve on next time.  Assessment is about reviewing and reflecting on our work.  A great art unit. We're so proud of everyone.  

Values Bar Graph

In Room 16 we have been learning about all sorts of different graphs.  Today we created a values bar graph.  These are the values that we all believe are important in our class.
 Wow! We are going to have a super year !!!

Picasso Faces on PhotoPeach

Our Finished Art Works- Picasso Move Over!