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Our Passion project week

This week we made many fun projects. We have choices like making Tapa, felt soft toys, make music, Ukelele and passion writing.

We can choose maximum of two tasks, and share our project at the end of the week.

Here are some photos

Chuanyan's swords and shields.

Isla's cardboard snowman

Polina's HP characters and house

Holly's Cardboard mic

Amy's felt snowman

Siena is scrunching up tapa (50 times!) to make the wrinkle lines 

Rosi and Lola's car

Fleur's Christmas tree and snowman

Our collections of Tapa

The tapa workshop with Kura

Cara and Lexi's house with Rosi's help

Sarah's two felt elephants 

Sean's Tapa in progress 

Livia :

It's been fun making so many projects

I made a 3D cardboard thing of a name and a painter castle

Cara

So I made a house with Lexi,  and it was big.    we did 11 coats of paint.

Ella

I started making a felt snowman and then I started making a lot of AFL things.

Then I will and looked around and saw that people were making TAPA

And then started making mirrors and it was fun

Siena

I started of making an iPhone

And I make all the pieces sadly they didn't fit. Then I started to make a chest of drawers.  

Batik in the classroom

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have a group of Indonesian batik artists come and visit us. Everyone got to try their own piece of batik using melted wax and a dropper pen. Sadly we ran out of time to dye the cloth so they took them away to get that step completed for us.

We made a paper sketch, traced this onto cloth and then dripped wax onto the design. It was tricky to drip the hot wax onto the cloth without spilling it or controlling the flow.
When they demonstrated batik to us it looked super easy.... but it wasn't.

Here is a video of the technique used:

Flag Statistic Investigation

Click on this link to see instructions and all the information you need to complete the task

Link 

Imitating Eric Carle

We watched the video links to Eric Carle and focused on the techniques he used when creating an artwork. We identified a range of ways that he added texture and pattern to his work.

Once we had worked out how he did it then it was time...
Sketch an image
Trace it with tissue paper
Paint the different parts (with a focus on patterns, texture and mixing colours)
Pasting the different elements onto a new piece if paper.


This was a challenging task. Not only did we have to try and imitate Eric's techniques but there was also lots of problem solving.

What objects can we use to create texture to our artwork?
How can we manage all the pieces of our artwork?
How can we handle tissue paper when painting and drying it without any ripping?
What order do they need to be pasted onto the paper?
What is the best brush for painting and pasting?
How do we do whole class art (54 students) in an MLE space?


Here are our final artworks.....

Ordering decimals to ten thousandths

Here are a couple of videos from Khan Academy that will discuss ordering fractions. As they suggest - try pausing the video at the beginning and see if you can order them correctly before watching the full video. Did you get them correct?

There is a green button at the top right of the screen called PRACTICE THIS CONCEPT. When you think you have it click on the button and try some of the problems.

Below the two videos is a link to a game for ordering decimals. Another good tool for practicing the ordering of decimals.


Comparing decimals: ordering from least to greatest: This is a fun example where we reorder decimals from smallest to largest. You're looking for the place value that is the most signifiant, and then working backwards.




Comparing decimals: ordering from smallest to biggest: Let's move the decimals around and reorder them from least to greatest. Hint: look at one place value and then compare it to the decimals before moving on to the next place value.




Here is the link to Top Marks - Ordering decimals 

Imitating Artisits

We used some of the artists from our artist study to imitate their artworks and techniques.
The purpose of this artwork was to use paint and mix colours.
Can you guess some of the artists that we used for inspiration?