Teach the Teacher - Lockie teaches us fireworks art!

Lockie has taught us how to make crayon backgrounds and paint them over with black paint. Then we let them dry over the weekend and  we have scratched our designs into them with skinny sticks - now hey presto! Fireworks!

Literacy Week sees our Author in Residence - Stu Duval

Our first session was on writing and making stories from story telling. Stu told us the story of Rat Island which he told his sons and then wrote a book about it. 

Stu also showed us how he draws his illustrations with chalk pastels and drew a stunning picture of Skull Island!

In his second session he demonstrated cartooning to us all and had us spellbound as he directed quite simply how to create pictures from lines and squiggles!

Tinker time this week!

Patience and fine motor skills have been necessary this week for beading! Patterning and planning and a little help from our friends too.!

Beautiful umbrellas to brighten up those rainy days - who is hiding under there?

Art Finished!

A wave sneaks up to catch my toes...art for our poem.

First we painted a blue/white/purple toned sea. We chose cool colours.

Then we stuck on brown paper pieces for the sand. That took a long time so it was great to help each other out!

It was a fun activity to do in the hot afternoons last week. We could chat to our neighbour and get to know them.

Lovely sharing of equipment - thank you!

Next we have to stick on our colorfully painted jandals! We wanted to finish them before families came to the PTA Picnic!

If you missed the PTA Picnic, when you come along to your child's Home/School Partnership Conference, you will be able to view the finished paintings!