Specialists
Visual Arts
Last week the Preps and Grade 5/6s got busy painting!
In the classroom this week...
Prep students will collage their painted flowers and arrange them onto their background to be displayed at our upcoming ‘Open Art Room Afternoon’.
Grade 1/2 students will be practising drawing pumpkins to create a framed mini artwork to hang in a collaborative chandelier. They will be using paint pens and magic clay to add texture and pattern to their work.
Grade 3/4 students will be looking at Kusama’s ‘Eternal Soul’ artworks and recreating one of their own using elements of Kusama’s work such as organic objects, faces, eyes and of course, dots and pattern.
Grade 5/6 students will be drawing their chosen design onto their canvas painting, outling it in paint pen before painting the negative space in one chosen complementary colour.
Art Club
Last week the Art Captains organised and ran an art session for a small group of Grade 1/2s based on Japanese Artist Yayoi Kusama. Students cut a paper towel tube into a flower shape with petals and decorated it with bingo daubers and dot stickers.
Performing Arts
Prep students will begin applying their learning about the elements of music from this term to create sound stories. They will learn how to play different classroom instruments to match the characters, actions and moments in a story. Students will also begin learning the actions to our whole-school song, Count on Me by Bruno Mars, which we will perform together as part of our CBL Big Idea of Community.
Year 1 students will continue exploring rhythm, focusing on the difference between beat and rhythm. Through songs, singing and percussion instruments, they will practise reading and performing rhythms using ti-ti and taa patterns while keeping a steady beat.
Year 2 students will continue building their rhythm skills by exploring minims (too-oo) and how longer note values fit within the beat. They will apply this learning as they clap, read and play rhythms together using instruments.
Both Year 1 and Year 2 classes will also begin learning the actions to Count on Me, preparing to sing and perform it as part of our whole-school assembly in Week Ten.
Years 3–6 students will continue developing their bucket drumming skills by learning and reading bucket drumming notation and applying it to playing songs together with increasing accuracy. Students will practise copying rhythms of different levels of complexity and working together to stay in time as an ensemble. They will also begin learning the actions to Count on Me as part of our whole-school music focus.
Auslan
Grade 1 and 2
In week 8, we are focusing on the topic of family. Students will learn and practice signs for their family members. Through games and partner activities, they will ask and respond to simple questions using signs. Year 2 students will extend their learning by including numbers and signing how many family members they have. Grade 1 students will also continue practising the Auslan alphabet through fun fingerspelling games.
Grade 3 and 4
Grade 3s and 4s are also exploring the topic of family in week 8, extending their learning by describing people’s appearance, characteristics and personality in Auslan. Students will practise using descriptive signs such as tall, short, funny and kind, and will use these when sharing about their family members. We’ll also be playing some Celebrity Heads, practicing asking and answering questions about appearance and personality.
Grade 5 and 6
This week in Auslan, students will explore creative storytelling through a familiar fairy tale. After watching a signed version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, students will identify key characters, events and expressions used to bring the story to life. Working in small groups, they will then reinterpret the story by changing elements such as the characters, setting or ending, and perform their new versions using signs, facial expressions and role shift.