Inquiry

We loved doing the screen printing.  Our video shows what we did.

Pike River Coal MIne

Every day we have a look at the newspaper.  We always look at the cartoon.  To understand it we have to use our prior knowledge and think about what the author wants us to think or understand. We think of the connections we can make with it so that it means something to us.  Sometimes it is quite hard to know especailly if we have not been watching the news, because the cartoon is always about something that has happened, in the news.

We have been reading about the Pike River Coal Mine and the terrrible disaster.  We had been watching, listening and hoping.  Today there was a cartoon, which we all understood.  It needed only one word in it.  We understand from the cartoon that like us the author is thinking about the coals miners and their families and how much they want their loved ones bodies back with them.  We looked closely at the machine and at the arum lily, which is the kind of flower people often give and have at funerals.  We are very sad, we are sad for all the families and friends.

We talked about how people feel empathy with others and how we are all connected to these people because they could be our brothers, our dads, our uncles or our friends, how many of us have visited Greymouth and many of us know people there.  We talked about how we are all New Zealanders together and what this means to us in times like this. We all made a connection with this terrible disaster. We are storing these memories in our brains, it is now part of our history too,  and we will remember in the years to come about this sad time.

We have been thinking of what we look like when we and others express themselves.  Here are some ideas.

Aborginal Art

Here is some real Aborginal Art from Australia.  We painted some ourselves. These are done by Aborgines living in Australia and each one tells its own story.

Sculpture

Our teacher went to Sydney and saw how people can express themselves through sculpture. There was a huge exhibition at Bondi Beach of sculpture in the sand. 400,000 people had seen it. There were all different kinds, made out of wood, metal, platinum, rock, stones, rope and glass.  Here are some pictures.

Expressing Ourselves.

We have been learning about how to express ourselves and we have been doing some art work to show how we can do this.

Calendars.

We have been expressing ourselves by making calendars.  We had a choice of  how we could do this.  We will have these calendars on display for you to come and see them. You can get a calendar made from our pictures.

Earthquake

We expressed our thoughts and ideas about earthquakes by drawing pictures.  Each picture is different and we all had different ideas about what happened.

Aborginal Art

As part of our Inqury we have been looking at art from around the world.  We have done some Aborginal Art. We used symbols to tell stories.

Hand art

We did some hand art.  We traced our hands and then wrote on each finger what we were good at.

We are the World Art

We are the World and we have been doing some art from around the world. 

We did some Mola art.  This is art that is done in South America.  It is done with cloth and needles and thread. We did it with paper. It is bright.

We also did some Fiesta mats.  This is art that is done on cloth by people in Mexico.  We made mats, which was complicated and then put patterns on it.  We used paper.