Grade 3 started a new unit this week and demonstrated a huge knowledge of myths and legends, either from an interest in Greek and Roman Myths, experience of Percy Jackson or a host of animated tales that use myths and legends in some way as part of their story lines. After sharing their knowledge they set to work to invent Read full article »
Archives for Grade 3
Objects and Meaning
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157628937430681/ Grade 3 embarked on a unit about Still Life with a look back at the history of artists drawing stuff. Some questions they asked were: Why do people draw stuff? What do they draw? Why do they draw fruit?! By looking back at the history of still life we found that what people chose to draw often told us something Read full article »
category: Grade 3, Still life
Monochromatic
Taking what they had learnt about mixing a variety of tints and shades the grade three students set to work to create a monochromatic painting. The challenge was to be able to mix enough tints and shades of a colour to make the paintings look interesting and to be able to incorporate details. Of course they did an amazing job Read full article »
category: Grade 3, Tints and shades
Colour Sculptures
So just like the Bower birds the kids went off in search of colours. We decided to make a sculpture with all the tints and shades of primary and secondary colours that we found and painted. It is amazing how imaginitive the children are when presented with what others might view as a load of old junk. A lot of Read full article »
Tints and shades
Expanding on the children's understanding of color we have been trying to make as many different tints and shades of colors as we can by adding back and white. AJ said that we could mix a billion different colors and we certainly tried. We have been using these colors to create some kind of sculpture with all the great things Read full article »
Color Investigations
Grade 3 are going to begin some painting projects over the next few weeks. In order to paint really well we need to understand color. This is something that the children in ES look at each year and the kids in every grade love to simply investigate color. The aim of the first lesson was to find out what the Read full article »
Classroom collaboration Art
Grade 3 students worked hard to complete their classroom collaboration projects. The idea was for them to work together to create a work of art. Although grade 3 chose to do projects where they all have their own pieces of work within a common theme they still collaborated in sharing ideas, feedback and support to finish the works. All the Read full article »
category: Grade 3, project one
Hamaguchi Aquarium
Ms Hamaguchi's class have been making a class aquarium for their collaboration project. They liked the idea of working on a common goal and wanted to turn their homeroom into a huge aquarium. We spent the first week exploring the many different shapes and varieties of fish and sea creatures and made some detailed sketches in our books. Some of Read full article »
category: Grade 3, project one
Quinlan Lanterns
In Mr Quinlan's class the kids explored how they could all make a piece of art with a common theme. We had a lot of creative ideas but they chose the idea of making lanterns to hang in the home room. Lantern can come in many shapes and sizes and are found in many different countries and cultures. We investigated some Read full article »
category: Grade 3, project one
O’Neel’s Serpent
3 O'Neel chose to make a serpent and each of the parts of the serpent will express something about a member of the class. The kids really enjoyed thinking of ways they could express themselves through collage .... http://www.flickr.com/photos/ismanilaes/sets/72157627366524637/ Read full article »
category: Grade 3, project one
Grade 2
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Grade 3
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Grade 4
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Ms. Nadia Hartley