Imagination Day
This term we our concept was imagination. We have been reading and writing narrative stories. We read and wrote many different stories – fairy tales, super hero stories, myths and legends. We had an imagination day to celebrate our learning.
On the day we made creative shapes with food, did some geometric artwork and designed masks. We used “How Maui Slowed the Sun” by Peter Gossage to inspire our Maori mask designs.
Shape Makers
We used what we learnt about geometry to make our own 3D shapes. We described the shape’s faces, edges and corners.
We are Poets
We used what we learnt about diamante poetry to write poems about different topics. Here are some of our poems:
Maui and the Goddess of Fire
Maui
fiery, hot
crashing, pulling, tricking
nana, brother, aunty,mother
walking, flying, dropping
cheeky, red
Maui
By Sapphire and Caleb
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Maui and the Goddess of fire
Maui
red, hot
burning, leaping, boiling
goddess, brothers, island, mother
tricking, destorying pulling
orange, yellow
village
By Aminta and Avishi
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Roy Lichtenstein
Roy
big, cool
creating, designing, using
gallery, sky, planes, clouds
making, talking, working
blue, green
Lichtenstein
By Aminta and Avishi
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Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent
dark, bright
moving, waving, spinning
city, castle, sun, waves
nice, cool
Van gogh
By Avishi and Aminta
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Diamante Poetry
We are learning to write Diamante poems. A diamante poem is made up of 7 lines using a set structure. When a diamante poem is written it takes on the shape of a diamond.
Use this template to write your own at home:
Noun (subject)
Adjective, Adjective
Verb, Verb, Verb
Noun, Noun, Noun, Noun
Verb, Verb, Verb
Adjective, Adjective
Noun (subject)
Here’s an example:
Monsters
Evil, Spooky
Howling, Shrieking, Wailing
Ghosts, Vampires, Goblins, Witches
Flying, Scaring, Terrifying
Creepy, Crawly
Creatures
Inspired by Roy Lichtenstein
We used what we noticed and learnt about Roy’s artwork to inspire our own comic book portraits. We created book covers and wrote a narrative story about our super hero character.
Geometry Hunt
Explaining Artists Ideas
Yesterday we skyped Alex Bartleet to learn about being an artist and creating art. We found out lots of information about him and he showed us his artwork.
Later we discussed what influences artists and where they get their ideas from.
Artists can get there ideas from…
- looking at things around the world
- looking at other people work, not copying but taking ideas
- looking on websites
- learning at art school
- looking at things around them
- university
- using there imagination
- using their prior knowledge about things that have happened in the past
- using lots of materials
- finding interesting things to use
- getting information off the computer
- using different elements
- watching people
Off to Grandma’s
We used the well known fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” to inspire our own narrative stories. Here is some of the writing we wanted to share:
Little Red Riding Hood – by CJ
It was a sunny day in the forest. The forest was a beautiful place. It had bright green grass and leaves and brown branches. There were pink and yellow flowers and there were more rainbow colours. They sky looked bright blue. It smelled nice and fresh and it smelled like strawberry’s too. There were lots of butterflies flying around. Everything was shiny.
There was a girl and her name was Little Red Riding Hood. She looked beautiful and she sounded a bit loud and a bit soft. She liked helping her mother.
One day Little Red Riding Hood’s grandma got very very sick. Her mother called little red riding hood’s name, she walked inside to her mother. Her mother said “go take this cake, fruit and food to your grandmother, your grandma is expecting your visit, and don’t talk to stranger and don’t walk off the path. Then she went off and she was singing a song. She got a bot scared because she was stepping on little black branches but then a big bad wolf was spying on her and she never knew. Then the big bad wold came out the big bad wolf said, “where are you going?”. Then Little Red Riding Hood said, “I must not talk to strangers and he kept on talking to her. The big bad wolf said, “Where is your grandma’s home?”. Then The Big Bad Wolf told Little Red Riding Hood to pick some flowers for her grandmother. And off he went to grandmothers home.
Then The Big Bad wolf knocked on the door and the grandmother said “who is it?”. “It’s me your little grand daughter. Then the grandmother said “speak up I can’t hear you?”. He replied “Its me your little grand daughter”. Then her grand mother said “oh come in dear The Big Bad Wolf came in and when he came in the grandmother yelled “ahhh, it’s The Big Bad Wolf!”. Then quickly The Big Bad wolf gobbled grandma up. Then The Big Bad Wolf had a rest in her bed. Then after he had his rest he dressed up as grandma, then straight away. Little Red Riding Hood appeared where the door was. She knocked on the door, she said, “It’s me Little Red Grandma”. The wolf said, “Come in Little Red Riding Hood, come closer…
To be continued
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Little Green Riding Hood – by Kako
It was a sunny day in the forest there was a house that looked colouyrful and shiny. The forest had beautiful flowers and tall trees. The forest had a grassy hill. It ws peaceful and clean. The grassy hill was green and light. In the forest it sounded like birds chirping and wind blowing with the trees crashing. The trees were healthy ad the forest is always sunny also a happy place.
There was a girl and she was cool, helpful and she wore a green hood with red spots on it. She loved her mother so much. She was responsible to help her mother and took care of her self. She had blond hair, pretty hood and she talked softly. She was a short girl. Her name was Little Green Riding Hood. She liked the colour green and she smiled everyday and she always had a good day.
One day in the forest there was a house. There was a little girl and her father shouted “Little Green Riding Hood come here now”. “OK” said Little Green Riding Hood. “I want you to take soup to grandmum” said Little Green Riding Hood’s dad. “I will, yes father I’ll be happy to” said Little Green Riding Hood. “But dear stay on the path and don’t talk to strangers, and remember that OK dear” said Little Green Riding Hoods father. Little Green Riding Hood stepped on the footpath and then she stepped slower and slower because there was no light coming through and it was getting darker afterwards the big bad wolf said, “Hi little girl” in an evil and hungry voice. “Buuuut I’m nooot allowed tooo talk to strangers my dad said to me,” said Little Green Riding Hood. “Oh dear I’m not bad I’m a good wolf, so little girl where are you going” said The Big Bad Wolf. “Well I am going to my grandma’s house at the end of the forest, right there Mr Wolf,” said Little Green Riding Hood. Afterwards the wolf was racing after her…
To be continued
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Analysing Art
We are learning to analyse are we are looking at different artworks and making comments about:
- media – tools used to create the art work (paint, dye etc)
- elements – what the the artwork features (line, texture, shape, value, colour and space)
- techniques – the way the artist uses the media (long brush strokes, shading etc)
Can you comment about the media, elements and techniques these artists have use?
Explore more:
- Create artwork like Pablo Picaso
- Find out more about Keith Haring
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