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Our Finished Instruments

AllStars — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:00:11 +0000

Here are our finished instrument sculptures.

We hope you like them

Making our Cardboard Sculptures

AllStars — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:46:18 +0000

Recorder Sketchings

AllStars — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:15:29 +0000

We have had a couple of “Jellybeans” music lessons so far this term and are really excited to be learning to play the recorder.

Recently we used charcoal pencils to sketch some aspects of our recorders. We tried to experiment by pressing softly and more firmly, using the side of the pencil and the tip of the pencil as well.

Here are our finished sketches …..

wii”ve Got The Music – Recorder Sketchings on PhotoPeach

The Mothers Day Present

AllStars — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:32:57 +0000

Reading Circles

AllStars — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:00:46 +0000

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:

Skeleton Art

AllStars — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:19:57 +0000

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:

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

Inspiration From Hokusai

AllStars — Mon, 19 May 2008 05:48:55 +0000

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

We hope you like them…….

The Great Wave

AllStars — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:16:24 +0000

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 ……..

Joffa’s Toon School Visits Us

AllStars — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:56:40 +0000

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

BubbleShare: Share photos – Play some Online Games.

Dragon Alert!

AllStars — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:08:56 +0000

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

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