Room 16 did some very exciting Artwork on Wednesday!

As part of our Art Inquiry we have been studying an artist called Henri Rousseau. 

He enjoys painting animals in their jungle habitat. Ms. France, ( Mrs. M.R.s friend) 

who is a local artist, kindly came to help us do block prints of our animals.

 Ms. France demonstrating our first process..

These are our Learning Intentions.

First we had to chose an animal to sketch and then we transferred this on to cardboard.  To create texture on our cardboard animal shapes we had to choose and apply a variety of materials e.g. sandpaper, string, buttons, wallpaper, gold/silver paper and several other choices.

Here is how effective they look.

Ezra's Red Panda

Cruz's roaring Rhino

Caitlin's big Bear

Diya' s leaping Lion

Kalanei's mischievous Spider Monkey

Nathanael's rhino

Prajay's Monkey

Heads down and hard at work... so enjoyable!

Such concentration!
   We can see Kalanei, Nathanael, Prajay and Eesha.

Look at all the detail on these sketchings.

Chelsea is very proud of her work. 

We had such a lot of fun learning several new processes.
       Here we can see Austin, Alice, Caitlin and Manasa enjoying their work.

We are busy adding colour to our sketchings. We used neocolour pastels.

The pastels blend together to create vibrant colours.

Rose (Yauola's mum), Lisa (Connor's mum) and Brenda (Manasa's mum)

kindly came to help us. They also enjoy doing Art.

Ezra and Nandhini hard at work!

We were very lucky that Mr.Ramadam came to visit us.

He wanted to observe and learn all these new techniques.

Another process we learnt was tracing over our cardboard shape

with 2 different coloured crayons and then applying dye.

 

Finally, we are applying the printing ink to our block cardboard shapes. We are using printing rollers.

Here are our animal prints.
 Don't they look FANTASTIC!
We are very proud of them :) :)

Yauola

 Kalanei

Austin

Symphony

Caitlin

Connor

Nathanael

Aryan

Cruz

Breeze

Zac

Veronica

       

Alice

 

Manasa

Ezra

Prajay

Nandhini

                  This is  Manasa's finished work after he has added colour with the neo coloured pastels. So effective! I think his new name will have to be 'Manasa Rousseau!'

                       WE HAD SUCH A FUN DAY! WE LOVED DOING PRINTING :)

Term Three

Hi Parents,

Just a little notice to let you know that we are introducing a new Reading programme into the classroom called The Daily Five.  

For the first week, the children will bring home a 'best fit book' from their group box to read for homework.

This is a very exciting transition!  The children are going to love it.

Sports is still going to be held on a Thursday afternoon, so please make sure the children come dressed in appropriate clothing and shoes on that day.

Whanau Time starts first Friday back alternating with Syndicate Assembly every other week.

We are looking forward to another fantastic term. 

See you on Monday!

From Mrs M.R and Mrs Greenhalgh 

Hawaii

Hi Room 16. My holiday here in Hawaii is nearly over!! I thought I would share some photos of my trip with you

We celebrated Independence Day at a 

Private yacht club.

Waikiki by night 

We did lots of shopping and swimming in Waikiki 

We got driven around in a limo for most of our time in Waikiki😄😃

We then spent a week at the Disney Resort called Aulani

The weather has been amazing! So hot and tropical. It's going to be hard to come home!! 

We have had such a great time!!!

See you all in a week!!!

I can't wait to see you all!!😍😍😍😍