Last term we studied some stories in Reading Circles. Each group chose a text to read and met every week or so to talk about their book. We found interesting vocab and made up open-ended questions to ask the other members of the group. Nearly everyone enjoyed doing this.

At the end of the book we all had to make a Story Quilt in our group.

Each person had a square of paper and had to draw a border around it. Inside the border we had to draw three objects that related to our text. Everyone in the group had to use the same 3 objects in the same 3 colours, but we could each design our border however we wanted.

In the middle of the quilt square we had to draw a character from the story. We had to find a quote in the story that we thought summed up our character, and add it to our drawing.

We then stuck our quilt square onto black paper and they are now on the wall in our classroom.

Here are our Story Quilts:

We’ve been studying

•  the human body
•  keeping fit and active
•  healthy lifestyles

so we thought it would be fun to make some skeleton artworks.

What you need:

Water colour paints

A4 white paper

Black art paper (or paint your own like we did!)

Paintbrushes

What to do:

1. Using the watercolours, paint stripes over the whole A4  paper
2. Paint the bigger paper black
3. Wait for the papers to dry
4. Photocopy some body parts
5. Carefully trace the body part you want onto the stripy paper
6. Cut out and glue onto the black paper
7. Hang or display in your room!

We were inspired by the painting by Hokusai, and used crayon scratching to make these artworks of waves.

We hope you like them…….

 Today we looked at the work of a Japanese artist, Hokusai, who spent his whole life sketching, painting and drawing.Hokusai is famous for his collection called “36 views of Mt Fuji”.

This wood block print is called:

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa

From “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”; 1823-29 (140 Kb); Color woodcut, 10 x 15 in; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York© Mark Harden www.artchive.com

We used the thinking routine called “See, Think, Wonder”.

Here are some examples MrsP wrote down at the start of the lesson:

“I see the volcano.

I think it has erupted.

I wonder if that’s what caused the tsunami.”  Moustapha

“I see the wave towering over the boat.

I think it looks like a monster.

I wonder if it’s angry at the people.” Sokeina

Please leave your thoughts in the comments using this thinking routine:

I see……

I think ……

I wonder ……..

Some lucky AllStars enrolled at Joffa’s Toon School today, and spent the morning learning how to draw cartoons. Looks like they had lots of fun, and were pretty good at it too

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Here is a Rockyou show of the dragons we made a couple of weeks ago:

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We have designed these fantasy creatures.

They might inhabit the “Small Worlds” we created for our holiday project!

We hope you like them   :)

Have a click on our individual blogs to read our writing about these creatures 

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Clifton Pugh painted Australian landscapes. He concentrated on interesting parts of trees - like curvy branches, textured bark, and the patterns of the leaves.

We spent a beautiful afternoon outside our school, looking for unusual branches to draw.

Here are some pictures of us working outside ……