О̄wairaka Primary School Art Exhibition open to view!

 

Our Art Exhibition starts tomorrow!

 We hope to see you there!

Te Tuhi Art Gallery visit

A HUGE thank you to the parents who came with us to Te Tuhi Art Gallery. It was so good to have whanau back, sharing learning with our tamariki. 

Check out the amazing art Room 23 created!  You can also come into our classroom next time you are around school, to see them in person.

Do you remember which artists we looked at to get inspiration before we made our art pieces?

Don't forget the art exhibition is coming soon! Mark the date: 28 - 29th September

Room 23 is working hard on their artworks, in anticipation for our school exhibition.  We hope you will come and see what we have been creating....

Please remember to put it in your diary..... 

28 - 29th September

Cosmic Matariki Art

 Take a look at the cosmic art Room 23 created ....

You can see how these were made by checking individual student blogs by clicking on the names down the side.

What did you and your whanau do to celebrate Matariki this year?

Superhero Me Student Portraits

 Room 23 has been creating portraits of ourselves as superheroes.

First we chose either a warm or cool coloured background, creating graphic shapes like a comic book.

Next we thought of four words that described ourselves. 

Finally we designed our own mask to add to our portrait.

What four words would you use to describe yourself? 

Positively Portraits

 Room 23 have been working on these portraits using pastel, vivid pens and paint.  We all started by drawing eyes, nose and mouth and yet like every student - these portraits are all one of a kind amazing!

I will keep adding to the slides when more students complete their art. You can also check out their blogs to see what they thought about making this art. Just click on the student's name on the right hand side of this page and this will take you to their blogs.

Online and classroom learning

Take a look at the amazing art students have created since returning to school. Our classroom is looking more beautiful by the day!

There will be a Google Meet for all of Room 7 on Wednesday at 11.00 - 11.30am. I will email a link to students both at school and those learning from home and we will share some online learning time together.

There will also be two further Google Meets for those students learning from home. They will be on Monday and Thursday at 11am. These meets will be run by Jo Green and Phil Margetts. A link to these meets will also be sent to students' emails.

Battle of the Mountains ...model making

 We have been learning to tell a new legend this term. It is all about

...The Battle of the Mountains

Students have been making their own models of the different maunga.  

Students, can you see your model?  

Challenge: Take a screenshot of your model and create a blog post about what you have been learning during our Oral Language sessions.  You could also make more models of the maunga at home. Can you make all 7 mountains?

Self-portraits in the style of Amedeo Modigliani

 We have been working on our self-portraits for the last week.  We looked at the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani and took ideas from the way he worked for our own portraits.  He often drew faces longer than they would normally look.  He also placed eyes higher on the face and mouths lower on the face.  We hope you enjoy looking at our artworks.

Have you heard of Amedeo Modigliani?

Giant ladybird sighted in my garden!

One of our Home Learning tasks asks us to imagine meeting an insect.  I LOVE ladybirds and think it wouldn't be too scary meeting one this big.

I used removeit to make this image.  It was hard to make it look like I was sitting on the branch.

 What insect would you like to meet?

Koru Art

Room 7 has been looking at the art of Raewyn Harris.  We think it is inspired by plants we find in New Zealand.

Take a look at the gorgeous artworks we made in response ...

You can go to individual student blogs by clicking on their name in the right hand column of this blog.  They will tell you more about their artworks there.

3D POP Art

 Here is Room 7's dazzling 3D POP Art...

Room 7 worked tirelessly to get their artwork finished and I managed to put it up in our classroom just before lockdown. I think you'll agree, it looks fabulously colourful!

If you want to post your artwork on your own blog you could take a screenshot from the slideshow.  Remember to make a quality blog post about your art.  
You could describe: 

• how easy or hard it was to make

• what you enjoyed about making it

• anything you would do differently 

• advice to others who might want to make their own 3D POP Art