Class Topics  Term 1 2012

This Term Mrs Vella and I decided to make a Planner  in pdf  format Year Plan Term 1 2012 Draft 2  with lots of links for our students and their teachers. I hope it works.

Current Class Topics for Term 2 2011  – Whole School  Visual Arts Focus – Australian Art and Literature.

Grade Prep -  Collage – Zoo Theme. Painting Exploring Primary and Secondary Colours.
Construction – Food Theme -  Constructing fake cupcakes  etc.

Grade 1 and 2 – Printing – Work of May Gibbs. Snugglepot and Cuddlepie using a variety of printing techniques.
Modelling/ Construction – Students use plasticene and Paper Magic Clay  to make creatures in a decorated shoebox environment.

Grade 3 and 4 – Drawing  (with an emphasis on Texture ) and Construction  of hessian Scarecrows – Fabric Sculpture.

Emphasis on the various fabrics involved e.g. Hessian (burlap), calico, checked shirting, felt.

Grade 5 and 6 – Portraits -  Inspired by the Portraits of the National Portrait Gallery students  will explore portraits and make some of their own using a variety of techniques. e.g. printing, collage, photography, digital art.

Artist Study -   Australian Artist, Sir Sidney Nolan Students will paint a scene from the Ned Kelly Series which is housed at the National Gallery in Canberra.

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Current Class Topics for Term 1 2011  – Whole School  Visual Arts Focus – Australian Art and Literature.

Grade Prep   -    Collage and Painting – Topic – The Works of Mem Fox e.g.Koala Lou , The Green Sheep , Possum Magic .

Grade 1&2 -  Painting and Drawing – Blinky Bill by Dorothy Wall. Trailer for Blinky Bill Movie, made back in 1992 .We will also look at the works of Graeme Base “My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch“

Grade 3&4  Modelling and Collage – Works of Barbara Reid and Jeannie Baker

Term Plan for Staff 2011 Yvonne and Glenys.

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2010

Term 4 2010   Prep     -     Printing/Mixed Media work based on the Fairy Tale “Cinderella”.
Puppetry based on “The Three Little Pigs”

Grades 1&2  -         Construction – Junk Sculpture

Drawing Through the Ages – Cave Art of LascauxGiuseppe Arcimboldo - 1527  to 1593 Italy, “Vertumnus” and his Seasons series.

Grades 3 &4  -  Mixed Media – “Regatta at Cowes”  Raoul Dufy

Weaving  – Weaving, beginning with paper and  then using threads such as wool for another piece.

Term 3 2010 – Theme – The Arts and Crafts of Europe

Prep – “Anatole“  (the French mouse) Story by Eve Titus and illustrated by Paul Galdone – Construction and Printing

Grades 1&2 – Painting and Modelling – The characters of Beatrix Potter e.g. Two Bad Mice, Peter Rabbit, Miss Moppet, Mr Jeremy Fisher.  Grade 1 and 2 students are hatching chickens at school so we found this jigsaw link for them. Click Here to do the jigsaw.

Grades 3&4 – Painting – Monet’s “Waterlilies” and Junk Sculpture – Picasso, David Kemp

Grades 5&6 – Collage Matisse – Paper cuts , Painting Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Try Van Gogh’s Starry night as a jigsaw

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Term 2 2010 Whole School Theme   –  ASIA – The arts and crafts of Japan, China and Indonesia (continued).

Grade Prep – Modelling – Plasticene Pandas in collaged  3D bamboo forest.
Grades 1&2  – Mixed Media- Thai Elephants
Grades 3&4 – Mixed Media – Japanese gardens with Kimono clad figure.  3D dragon – Fabric  and wire sculpture.
Grade 5&6 -  Drawing Garuda Birds – Modelling Asian Pottery.

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Term 1 2010 Whole School Theme   –  ASIA – The arts and crafts of Japan, China and Indonesia

Grade Prep- Painting-  Mixing Blue and yellow to make green. Painted leaves form a background for a grey baby elephant mixed from black and white.

and Collage -  Tigers and Elephants. It is soon to be the Chinese Year of the Tiger.The students will use a variety of papers to create an elephant (a new one was born at Melbourne Zoo recently) and, in a separate work, a tiger in the jungle.

Grades 1&2     Pandas from China  Students use newspaper masking tape, wire and paper mache paste to build a 3D panda.

Grades 3&4     Drawing – The animals of the Chinese Calendar

Japanese Fish Kite Construction

Grade 5&6 Indonesian Masks - Folded cover paper and the use of intricate cutting, layering and decorating will provide masks with an Indonesian flavour.

We will also look at some of the other arts and crafts of Indonesia.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

http://www.zoo.org.au/Learning/Animals/Lion