Art - Fireworks

On Friday we watched the fireworks from the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony.  We noticed that the fireworks exploded outwards.  Using paint, we created our own fireworks.  Team Toru are looking forward to seeing the Opening Ceremony for the Rio Olympic Games.  I wonder if they will have fireworks too?

A Very Busy Week 7 :-)

Wow... where has the week gone?  Team Toru have been super busy with their learning this week.  We have been looking at doubles to 20 as a knowledge focus for Maths, including a really cool Doubles Rap that we have been singing together.  At Writing time we have been retelling "The Three Little Pigs", as well as learning about punctuation. During Reading time we have used our imagination to create a house for a fourth little pig, as well as describing the wolf using adjectives.  And today Team Toru, along with Team Wha, got to experiment with Zentangle designs...
Whew!  A very busy time for us...
Here are some snapshots of our learning below :-)

Fun with Collage

Today we worked with Team Wha to create these gorgeous collage self-portraits.  Using coloured paper, we covered a piece of white paper with small squares.  Then using a separate piece of paper, we used a vivid to draw ourselves. We cut ourselves out, and glued our self-portrait on top of our collage paper.  Mrs Gempton has put these up on a wall in our classroom and they look fabulous.  Come and check them out...
Here are some photos of us in action...

Art Today!

We started creating our butterflies today.  We did it one stage at a time... pencil work first and then marker pen.  After that we used pastel to colour the wings.  At our next art session we will cut our butterflies out and mount them on blue card :-)
Check out the concentration on these beautiful faces...

Drawing at Art Time

Today we were looking at Tapa Cloths and how these are created.  We looked at the patterns and designs on these.   Using this as a starting point, we created our own tapa inspired patterns using jovi crayon and black vivids.  We think we did a pretty amazing job!
Here are 6 of our creations so far...

Art about our Crazy Visitors Yesterday!

After having the crazy car and clowns visit us yesterday we did some cutting of clowns today.  They took a lot of work, but don't they look awesome!

Rapanga

On Friday we worked with Team Wha to create our Rapanga (weaving).  We used two different colours of paper to weave - this was quite tricky!
Didn't we do well!!

Easter Fun!

We have had a very exciting start to our day today! Look at our neat Easter Art. We will be bringing home special goodies for Easter, we hope our families are excited!!