Teacher's Skoolstar Performance

Skoolstars recording day

I was very pleased with the improvement in singing, so I can't wait to see the edited video clip.  'Blame it on the Boogie,' is such an energetic song to sing.  You all sung your hearts out! The school will be having to shows on Wednesday 10th November.

Soap materials

Today it was exciting because all of the stuff for the soap arrived! We got to smell all of essential oils.  Some smelt really strong and some smelt very nice.  We got to hold Ms K's soap cutter and it looked very sharp!

Exploring possible soap designs

In class we have been drawing soap designs.  We will then put our designs on the wall and pick the best ones to make.  We will have to make labels to say what the smell is, what colours and if you have any drop-ins.

Skoolstars - Working out the dance moves

Each day our singing is improving.  Now the children are on to working out their moves and grooves!

Bath Bombz and Soap

Our inquiry theme is 'Express Yourself.'  Since it's the school fair we'll be looking at how we can express ourselves through the senses.  We've been given the job of creating luscious soaps and smelly bath bombz.

Check out The Whiteboard Witch.  Do you remember our soaps from last year?  

Lemongrass soap with minty drop-ins

Strawberry soap

Orange soap with koru patterns

Heart bombz with pansy petals

Still Life Workshop some finished pieces of art

Sam LT 4

Carlos Room 3

Sarah Room 5

Sarah Room 5

Courtney LT 4

Recycled Art Workshop

I like it that we could do anything we wanted.  I'm making Spondgebob riding a tiger!

Pastel Workshop some pieces of work

Pastel Workshop

Still Life Workshop

I enjoyed mixing the different tones of paint.  In this photo we're doing a 10 minute sketch using black crayons.  We had to look at doing the shadows and shading.

Printmaking Workshop

Black and white

Tonal Still life, white, grey and black tones

Here's some photos of the artworks created in the afternoon session.

My still life

In today's workshop we learnt how to draw still life, how to use shade and shading.  I really liked the painting, it was fun!  Next I'd like to use colour and different tones.

Exploring mixing paint and large black paintings

Children completing a quick 10-15 minute painting from the still life compostition they've selected.  They're using A2 paper and large brushes.  First they explored mixing paint.

Still Life workshop

Today we have been doing the Still Life with a Difference workshop.  I've learnt that sometimes you have to put a lot of details into pictures to make them look good.  Shading and tone is very important.  Below I'm painting a still life of a toy sitting in oranges, I had to look at the picture quite a lot to get it right.  I was looking for the right shade and where to put things.