The Wizard of Owl

Our Grade 3 and Grade 4 students gave their Junk Sculptures a title and some were quite interesting, varying from a play on words to just a description. Michael’s car is a “Mountain Car”, complete with papermache mountain whilst what appeared to be an armless creature by Monique of 4CD is the delightful “Wizard of Owl”.

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Sharing the Shearing

Yesterday, on the first day of my two week Term Break, I travelled to my childhood home on a farm in central Victoria to watch the shearing. I’m sure many students don’t get the opportunity to see this event so I thought I’d post some photos. The  sheep didn’t seem to mind the camera flash and the shearers, Daniel , Danny and Glenn were very cooperative. The shearing shed was bult in about 1924 so  it has seen a lot of sheep shorn over the years.

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Not Just Junk

Our Grade 3 and Grade 4 students have been working hard to see the possibilities of using junk items to create sculptures. With a bit of imagination I can see the little white Alien having lots of adventures around our school. Art works as  starting points for writing seem like a great idea to me. The Alien is by Monique of 4CD and the Chicken Run character is by Stephanie P of 4VR. There are more characters on the Recent Sudent Artwork page.

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Junk Sculpture

Our Grade 3 and Grade 4 students have been looking at the junk sculptures of Pablo Picasso and of contemporary artist David Kemp. They have been inspired to make their own pieces, give the choice of a creature or vehicle. “Ruby Red’s” body is a trigger spray bottle while the “Boyfriend” is just a plastic jar.

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Vive Anatole

Our Prep students LOVED  the story of Anatole, the French mouse by Eve Titus. I was surprised to see that the book was nearly as old as I am, having been first published in 1956. We read the first few pages of the story which is available at Amazon.com and the students  gleefully joined in whenever I read “his wife Douchette and his six charming children, Paul and Paulette, Claude and Claudette and Georges and Georgette” . They constructed a 3D mouse and  made it a folded cardboard house  complete with furnishings. They also drew the mice in a cobblestoned street and added watercolour paints and collage (the yellow foam pieces are cheese) to complete their work. We never rush our students. We believe that “Quality work takes time”.
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Just Beautiful

A family friend who has just returned from his honeymoon in  Brunei, Borneo and Malaysia took this photograph which I asked  for to show our students. In particular, I wanted to show our Grade 3 and Grade 4 students who have been diligently painting waterlilies in the style of  Impressionist artist Claude Monet.  I hope you will enjoy its beauty and tranquility.

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