Current Class Topics
Term 2 2009
Prep Threads and Textiles-”The Very Hungry Caterpillar” a fabric collage. Drawing Zoo Animals and making simple animal puppets.
Grade One
Threads and Textiles Stuffed stocking and sock creatures. Construction inside a shoebox provided a home for these creatures .
Term 1 2009
Preps- Painting Colour Mixing Students mix primary colours to make new colours and paint the characters from the book “What Makes a Rainbow?”
Grade One Painting A beach scene and the students learn how to mix various “skin” tones. They are also introduced to background and foreground.
Grade 2 Our School Printing and Mixed Media Students draw our school buildings, print bricks on the walls using polystyrene foam and then add printed trees, plants etc.
Grade 3 Paper Mache Construction - “Fake Cakes” Students construct cakes for our school’s 20th Birthday. They cover containers with layers of paper and add cardboard rolls for candles.
Grade 4 Painting Claude Monet’s Waterlilies. Students study Impressionist style and paint using student acrylics with the same colours and brushwork as Monet.
Grade 5 Paper Mache Bowls – Based on half a Paper mache covered balloon and in the style of Juliet Bawden.
Grade 6 Drawing Pattern – “What’s in a Name?” Students use a variety of felt pens to draw and decorate their names and the surrounding paper.
Term 4 2008 Topics
Preps – Printing Castles and Fairytales.
Drawing -The 3 Pigs and The 3 Bears
Grade 1 Bird Puppets Paper Mache heads and cereal box bodies with moveable wings.
Grades 2 Printing – Rocking Horses in line with the Toys theme. Students make a paper stencil and then print a rocking horse. When it is dry they cut it out and use it as part of a Toy Collage with a wool tops mane and felt saddle cloth.
Grade 3 Painting Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers and Collage of Van Gogh’s Bedroom at Arles.
http://www.vangoghgallery.com/painting/sunflowerindex.html
Grade 4 Students are studying the Elements of Art through Collage.
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/
Grade 5 Sudents are Completing a Dragon Collage.
Grade 6 Students are making Paper Mosaic photo frames and boxes before attempting a ceramic tile mosaic of their own.
Term 3 2008 Topics
Grade 6 Paper Mache Masks with accompanying Fabric drape Students design and build masks from Paper mache cardboard and wire. Masks are Painted and decorated.
Grade 5 Appliqued cushions using Threads and Textiles. In second half of the term a Mixed Media Chinese Dragon will be made .
Grade 4 A construction with Found Objects will be made followed by a mixed Media Collage based on a Book Week Short listed book. Go to http://cbca.org.au/shortlist.htm for the list of books.
Grade 3 Collage based on the Picture story book , “The Peasant Prince” by L i Cunxin. Also students will be Modelling using Plasticene and Paper Magic Clay to make a cat for a diorama. Diorama based on Short listed book “Cat” by Mike Dumbleton. Plasticene is also used by artist Canadian artist Barbara Reid.
http://www.justonemorebook.com/2007/02/19/interview-with-barbara-reid/
Grade 2 Painting based on the work of Guiseppe Arcimboldo. They will draw the fruit shapes in a face arrangement befor mixing colours and painting them in Arcimboldo’s style.
Many more pictures at http://www.arcimboldo.art.pl/english/index1.htm
Grade 2 students will also make felt dolls based on the Shortlisted book “PEARL BARLEY AND CHARLIE PARSLEY” by Aaron Blabey. They will use a variety of fabrics to make clothes and threads for hair etc.These will be added to a collaged background.
Grade 1 Students will use Clay and Modelling skills based around the “pinch pot” to model dogs and cats. Inspiration will come from the shortlisted book THE TROUBLE WITH DOGS! by Bob Graham .They will use Paper Magic Clay to make a 2D Lucy Goosey based on the shortlisted book by Margaret Wild. The goose will hide amongst painted and collaged reeds and pond background.
Students will also try some simple weaving using plastic mesh and a variety of threads. An excellent Interactive weaver may be found at http://www.houseoftartan.co.uk/interactive/weaver/index.html
Grade One Students will also do some weaving. First they will weave paper strips and then try weaving felt strips, wool, raffia and wool tops through gutterguard or similar.
In their classrooms Prep Students will be studying “People who help us in the Community” and “The Circus’ during this term. In Art classes they will Construct a Cown based on a cardboard cone or tube painted brightly. A stuffed stocking head and wool tops and fabric pieces will complete the Clown. In addition the students will draw and collage some vehicles including a fire engine and ambulance.
Term 2 2008 Topics
Grade 6 Australian Artists Painting
May 22nd Students have selected a painting by an Australian artist and are beginning to paint in the artist’s style, creating the same colours, lines, shapes etc and atmosphere. For information on Australian Artists try http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/painters/
Grade 5 Space Printing and Construction
May 23rd Students have painted a food dye background and a stencil printed foreground for an Alien landscape painting.
Grade 4 Monet’s Waterlilies Painting
http://www.intermonet.com/ will link students to information about Claude Monet and his Beautiful Garden at Giverny, near Paris, France,
Grade 3 Sovereign Hill Characters Construction
Students have begun constructing historic characters based on a cone and a paper mache or stuffed stocking head.
http://www.sovereignhill.com.au/
Grade 2 Kurt Schwitters Collage and Construction
Students completed a piece of Collage based on the work of Kurt Schwitters 1887-1948.
Grade 1 Winter /Snowmen Printing and Construction
May 22nd Students stencil printed fir trees for their Winter scene print. Trees covered in snow -http://www.photoeverywhere.co.uk/west/winterholiday/slides/snowy_trees1981.htm
Prep Zoo Animals Puppetry
Students are making Threads (Hessian) and Textiles (Wool Tops) Lion stick puppets.
