Friday, May 27, 2005
25th - 27th May
We have continued to enjoy our Arts Week.
On Wednesday we had a Year 5 and 6 art activities day in which we did four different art activities with four different teachers! Activities included:
- creating 3D graphics (by drawing the letters and then using the vanishing line to make them appear to be three dimensional);
- using pencil crayon to create a "What are they looking at?" picture (in which the foreground is made up of the backs and backs-of-heads of a crowd watching something);
- making a "tiger in the grass" picture using wax pastels and
- paintings in the style of Australian Aborigines (using a restricted palette of colours and sticks to create the images and symbols out of different sized dots).
On Thursday we had the "owl lady" visit us with a range of birds of prey including barn owls and eagle owls. We also had a visitor come to demonstrate the playing of African drums and to teach us how to play some of the traditional African rhythms. We also did some more work on Grandpa Chatterji. We watched the video of the story, discussed how it differed from the book and how the director had interpreted some of the incidents that we had studied. We also did a "hot seating" activity to further explore the characters, thoughts and feelings of the children in the book and then did another "thinking skill" activity comparing the characters of Grandpa Chatterji, Grandpa Leicester and Sanjay.
On Friday it was "bring your bear to school day" to raise money for a charity for sick children. In the morning we made a poster to encourage someone to care for Paddington Bear and then we had our Arts Week Quiz. In the afternoon a member of the British Paralympic Team visited our school to talk about his experiences and we finished our week by producing a water colour painting of a still life composition featuring flowers and music instruments.
On Wednesday we had a Year 5 and 6 art activities day in which we did four different art activities with four different teachers! Activities included:
- creating 3D graphics (by drawing the letters and then using the vanishing line to make them appear to be three dimensional);
- using pencil crayon to create a "What are they looking at?" picture (in which the foreground is made up of the backs and backs-of-heads of a crowd watching something);
- making a "tiger in the grass" picture using wax pastels and
- paintings in the style of Australian Aborigines (using a restricted palette of colours and sticks to create the images and symbols out of different sized dots).
On Thursday we had the "owl lady" visit us with a range of birds of prey including barn owls and eagle owls. We also had a visitor come to demonstrate the playing of African drums and to teach us how to play some of the traditional African rhythms. We also did some more work on Grandpa Chatterji. We watched the video of the story, discussed how it differed from the book and how the director had interpreted some of the incidents that we had studied. We also did a "hot seating" activity to further explore the characters, thoughts and feelings of the children in the book and then did another "thinking skill" activity comparing the characters of Grandpa Chatterji, Grandpa Leicester and Sanjay.
On Friday it was "bring your bear to school day" to raise money for a charity for sick children. In the morning we made a poster to encourage someone to care for Paddington Bear and then we had our Arts Week Quiz. In the afternoon a member of the British Paralympic Team visited our school to talk about his experiences and we finished our week by producing a water colour painting of a still life composition featuring flowers and music instruments.
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