Going the Extra Mile

Hello to you all,

We have had such a blast with our latest inquiry into Art and telling a story without using words.  Some of our students are going that extra mile and continuing their work at home!

We have had students bringing in their pictures they have drawn after school and sharing them for news and a LOT of kids who are using their Explore - Genius Hour time to research some of their favourite artists.

Hunter Thomas has been creating his own Master pieces at home and sent me some of the photos.  Have a look at his creations...

If you have any examples of work, research or anything else you would like to share on the blog email me on tash@riverdale.school.nz and I will put it up.  Happy creating!!

Week 6 highlights

Our Assembly

Hello to you all,

We are on Assembly this week and have created a fantastic presentation!  If you can't make the assembly I can share the presentation with you.  Email if you would like to be added.

Here are three of the videos we created to be part of our assembly...

Week 5 Highlights...

I enjoyed drawing the Tiki art - Matt

I liked cutting out my feathers and sticking them onto my cloak - Willow

I enjoyed practising my cloak drawings in my thinking book - Te Oka

I have enjoyed learning about famous painters - Artemis

I enjoyed publishing our poems - Yuri

Making our cloaks has been a lot of fun - Maidah

I have enjoyed publishing my reading research - Charlie

I like learning about famous artists - Reihana

I am proud of myself for moving to workshop 3 - Ngakau

I enjoyed moving to workshop 3 - Daniel

I enjoyed making the Tiki art - Luke D

I enjoyed learning how to sketch like John Bevan-Ford - Ayla

Te Manawa

Thanks to Chris Speirs for taking these photos of the trip.  It looks like you all had a great time!

We love Pae-Ake Fridays!!!

After morning tea we get to choose workshops that give us a chance to EXPLORE further some learning from the week.

Today we got to find out more about Paul Dibble.
He is a Palmerston North artist who makes sculptures.  He designed the library logo, and a sculpture that is in London.  He gave Palmerston North a $90,000 gift of a sculpture of the Huia which is outside the Square Edge in town.  We saw it on our trip on Thursday.

Then we got to have a go at making out own sculptures using clay!
It was trickier than we thought :)

We love Pae-Ake Friday!

We start the day with team PE - we all get to explore with a range of different PE equipment.  Today we were practicing uni-hockey skills, bouncing basketballs, catching tennis balls on the gutterboard and skipping.

We are improving every week!