Michelangelo Art

Today we joined our buddy class to learn about Michelangelo and how he painted the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City.  We talked about how he spent approximately 5 years laying on his back painting scenes onto the ceiling of the church in the 1500's.  After our discussion, we joined our buddies under their tables to try creating our own art while lying on our backs!  It was a lot of fun but our arms definitely got tired quickly.

Here are a few pictures of us creating our masterpieces and here is a short movie about our afternoon.

Happy birthday!

A huge smiley happy birthday to Maria!!

Our Art This Term

In Term One we have completed two pieces of artwork. The first one was to sketch our team bird, the kakapo. We also had to sketch a background of New Zealand native plants and then colour it with pastels. Once we were finished, and had cut and mounted it for presentation, we had to self assess it against our success criteria. We are very proud of our finished work. 

Our second piece of art was a tiki or marae for our new theme, Mana Te Ao. First we had to find a picture on the internet that we wanted to draw. Next we saved the image to a Google doc so that we would be able to find the same image again. We then sketched our image making sure to add detail. We coloured using pastels, colouring pencils or jovies, depending on which would work best for our drawing. We printed off our original image to mount alongside our finished artwork. Our next step will be to self assess our work against the success criteria that we came up with for our project. 

James, MacKenzie and Andy are very proud to have their work on display in the school entrance. 

Waterslide

On Friday was Splish Splash Day for the Year 1 and 2 students.  Every year they have a huge waterslide as part of their day.  After the splish splash events are finished the rest of the school gets a turn using the waterslide.  Here are some pics and a couple of short movies of us having our turn.

Click here to view the photo gallery.  HERE

Buddy Class

Today we met our buddy class, Room 27.  We were very excited to get to be the big buddies as we have always been the little buddies! We went to Room 27 and were given a little buddy.  Then we chose a book from their class library and went outside to the adventure playground to read our book with our buddy.  After we'd read our books it was lunch time and we went behind Room 25 & 26 to have a picnic with our buddies.  We can't wait to spend time with them again!

Click on this link to see the photo gallery of us with our buddies.  HERE