Guy Fawkes Fireworks Art

When Mrs Wallace was visiting our classroom we were lucky enough to create some beautiful fireworks art.  After we'd finished our artwork, we added them to our cardboard boxes that we'd painted black and stacked them up so that they looked like a rocket ship in our classroom.

Here are our instructions:
1.  Use crayon to colour in a whole piece of paper with different colours.
2.  Paint the coloured in paper with black paint.
3.  Use the back of the paintbrush to scratch patterns into the black paint so that the colours show through.
4.  Add some glitter to the paper too.

We really enjoyed adding the glitter, scratching the patterns into the paint, painting the paper and colouring the paper in.

We found it hard to wait for it to dry to scratch our patterns into our paper.

We found it easy to paint the black paint on.

Next time we would add people to our patterns.

There are lots of exciting events that happen at this time of the year.  Some of our favourite things are our Christmas concert, Christmas and Jesus' birthday!
What are yours?

Maui and the Sun Artwork

In Room 6 we were reading a few special books about Maui and the sun.

In this story, Maui was trying to slow the sun down as there wasn't enough time in the day to get all his chores done.  The sun was going too fast!  Maui made ropes out of flax and said a special karakia so they would be strong and used them to catch the sun.  Maui told the sun it needed to go slower and the sun said ,"Okay".

Some of our favourite parts of creating our artwork were:

• Using the cotton buds to dye our paper
• Trying our hardest to draw our pictures
• Designing our own drawings
• Creating our drawings

Some of the most challenging parts of creating our suns were:

• Drawing the sun with the special lines for its face
• Creating the designs with the rays so that it looked similar to the drawings in the book
• Trying to stay inside the lines with the dye
• Dyeing them so that there was no peekaboo white (no white spots showing)
• Waiting for one colour to dry before we did the next one.  (If we didn't wait for it to dry it dripped into the other colours).
• Creating the mouth of the sun because it was a special shape
• Being patient and waiting to be able to add each colour one by one.  We really wanted to finish!

Some of the things we think we could do to make our artwork even better are:

• create some rainbow-coloured artwork with the same technique
• try to get the designs just like the Māori designs in the book
• put some more designs and detail in what we did
• instead of colouring it in we could put some other things on to make it more interesting
• make some rainbows with some pink and add some bees to it too!

Check out our artwork in the slides below:

   

Creating Quality Blog Posts

In Room 6 we have been learning about creating blog posts to share our learning.
We use a tool online called Blogger.

We know when we create blog posts we need to make them the best we can be AND this is all new learning to us, so sometimes we will need to use tools to help us to do this.  One thing we can use is called a 'rubric'.  This is a tool that helps us to be able to check we have got all the right information.

Today, we learned how to add our rubric by embedding the Google Slide here in our blog post.
We had to use the  HTML tab in Blogger to add the embed code for the Google Slide.  We will use this rubric to help with our blogging.

Nau mai, haere mai ki tēnei taonga

Welcome to our class blog.

We look forward to sharing our learning with our school,

our whānau and friends everywhere.