Around the Primary Classrooms

Kinder

During the past couple of weeks, the Kinder studetns have enjoyed a variety of activities, including:

looking at contemporary indigenous art and being inspired to create their own paintings
working with Year 10 Child Care VET students. A lovely chatty rapport is blossoming between them all. The "big girls" read stories in small groups, assisted with a dot to dot that went way past 10 and helped with cutting out a ‘spiral snake’ and then with weaving snowflakes.
we have begun using puppets; this activity fosters confidence, memory, turn taking and responding as well as pour enjoyment.

Mrs Karen Guidici

Year 4

In Art, we created a tree in winter. We have a big tree outside our classroom window that we look at each day. We noticed that it spread out and the branches became thinner and thinner. Because it was a really windy day, some of the twigs were flying off!

To do the background we thought about what colours are in the sky in winter. To start with we needed to wet the sheet of paper. We mixed and blended water colours eg. purple, yellow, grey and blue. The paint kind of made a cloudy kind of texture. Once the paper was dry, the next week we started making the tree. We did this by putting drops of paint on the paper with a pipette and then we blow through a straw to move the paint.

I like doing the background and doing my tree – Chloe
I liked blowing through the straw and getting to blow the branches all different ways – Mia
I liked making the background; it was colorful, fun and mostly I enjoyed how everyone was having fun – Aagya
I liked doing the background of the winter tree art – Kimberley
I liked how the straws made it look abstract – Sophie
I liked doing the colourful background – Violet A
I liked using the straw to blow all of the ink out. Mine turned out really well – Maisie
I thought it interesting to use a straw to make a tree – Violet C
It was cool to make a pretty base colour and then doing a dark tree – Amaya
I liked experimenting with straws and trying different techniques – Olive
I liked doing the tree by blowing ink through a straw – Chanel
I liked using the straw. It was fun! – Mia B
I liked blowing on the straw to spread the branches – Christelle
I liked blowing the black paint through a straw and painting the background – Jeanie
I liked blowing through the straw – Maddi
I liked using the straw to make the tree by blowing ink to make a tree although it can be a bit messy – Eden
I liked making the black run. It was very fun – Bella
I liked blowing with the straw because it was really fun – Ellie
I liked doing the tree and branches a lot – Mila
I enjoyed making a tree with a straw although it can be a bit messy – Elsie
I liked painting the background because I liked blending – Cadence
I liked how when you blow the ink it makes natural looking tree branches – April
I like how fun it was with the straw – Milli

Ms Susie Allan

Year 5

Last Tuesday, the two Year 5 classes headed off to Molesworth Education Centre for a day of leadership activities.

The students were faced with 6 different and difficult challenges in very cold conditions that required them to work as a team. The girls needed to show good communication skills, respect each others ideas, resilience and trust in their teammates.