Art Attack - exploring with paint!

After our river trip on Thursday Class 20 created river scenes using paints.  Our finished masterpieces are ready to be displayed on our wall, and we enjoyed exploring this medium.

Reinforcing our Assembly Kōrero

Before morning tea and lunch today we talked about our assembly kōrero from last week and what sort of things were the 'right choice'.  Class 20 even made some actions to help remind us about this important message.

The kōrero for the week was:

Stop   -     Think    -    Make the Right Choice!

We talked about how we could remember this when we were on the playground.  One of our learners suggested that the red traffic light means STOP!   We thought about how we could use art to remind us about this message and we have created an Explain Everything to represent the three parts of the kōrero.  Some learners decided to divide their page into three pieces, while others combined all parts into one illustration.

Check out a selection of our class's art works:

 Nature

Siakupega

Kahurangi

Arkar

Our very short movie shows the actions that Class 20 are using to remember this important kōrero:

Sharing our fireworks experiences

The learners in Class 20 were keen to share their fireworks experiences.  We spent several days writing stories about what we did, and created some great art works on the iPads by using a black background as a starting point.  Here are some examples of our work:

Be safe when you do your fireworks, even with the Mums and Dads be safe too!

- Oalii

Nature

I like the colourful fireworks and the rockets and the sparklers.

- Casshius

I like fireworks because they are going up in the sky.

- Luisa

Deborah

I like to go with my family because it is fun to see the fireworks and Guy Fawkes tonight.

- Central

I like fireworks and sparklers and I come with my Mum and Dad to get the fireworks and sparklers.

- Deborah

Phoenix

Today is Guy Fawkes day and we can light up some fireworks.  But you can't light them up, only an adult can light them up.

- Kahurangi

Central

Creating River Scenes

As part of our immersion week for Art Attack,this week Class 20 have created River Scenes using crayon and dye.  Our finished masterpieces are on display in our classroom and corridor.  It was great to see the attention to detail that the learners displayed with both the crayon and dye, although it was definitely using the dye that was the highlight!

Check out the learners as they worked their artistic magic in this short video and don't forget to view the finished masterpieces in our classroom.