Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 8 and 9

Katelyn was our Kowhai Express Star this week

She got her award for being an engaged learner who is working hard to improve her writing.

We continued our discussions about space and we talked about New Zealand and Earth. We have lots of ideas about New Zealand and lots of questions too!

Over the last two weeks we completed some paintings, this time it was a painting that used lots of water. When we used the water with the paint the colours mixed together. We had to let the paint dry once we had painted our background before we could finish our painting. We think they look awesome.

Te Atahaia was our Artisan of the week, she got her award for being a super EXPRESS learner.

Zac was our Kowhai Express Star for week 9, he got his award for effort, persistence and improvement in reading and writing.

It was Jump Jam Mufti Day on Friday we dressed up as our favourite Jump Jam characters. We drew portraits of ourselves.

 

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 7

Amber was our Kowhai Express Star this week, she got her award for effort and persistence with a smile in all areas of class learning.

This week we practiced our brush control during exploration , trying hard to paint inside the lines, it took a lot of patience and concentration.

 This week we read a big book called ‘Going to the Moon’, it is about a mouse that packs his bags and goes off on his bike to see the moon. It made us think about space and all the things we know and all the things we would like to know. We drew pictures, wrote and talked about space.

William was our Artisan of the week this week, he got his award for being engaged in classroom learning and sharing his ideas about space and New Zealand.

 

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 6

Joe was our Kowhai Express Star this week, he received the award for being an engaged student who can share and justify his ideas. 

This week we did an art activity which involved tinting using white in order to get different shades of the same colour. We also experimented with tinting to work out what colours primary colours make when mixed together.

We continued to work on observational drawing and this week we drew our own hand which was quite difficult.

Joe found an egg outside his house underneath a tree. It was blue and broken.

Some of us have been playing with the multilink a lot in class seeing how far they will reach when they are all connected. It stretched halfway around the room. WOW!

We also had our Kowhai fun afternoon, there were challenges, races, bubbles and a fire engine. The fire fighters sprayed us with the big hoses, it was fun!

Daniel was our Artisan of the week, he got his award for sharing his thoughts and ideas with the class.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 5

Mollie was our Kowhai Express Star this week, she received the award for being an engaged student who always tries her best.

Gallery Seven won the Kowhai shield this week at assembly for showing good manners and singing beautifully.

This week Michael Holland came and visited us he is a full time artist, who creates huge amazing artworks with lots of detail in them. One of his paintings were full of boats and we had to try and count how many their were, there were a lot. Sam won a small painting by Michael because he counted the closest.

We really liked the bubbles in Michaels paintings, so we experimented with how you get the different shades, we tried using different pressures on our brushes, adding water and adding white paint.

Tiger-Lilly  was our Artisan of the week, she got her award for being and engaged student who always tries hard to improve and achieve.

 

Gallery Seven Journal -Term1, Week4

Tyler received our Kowhai Express Star award this week for being a self managing student who always makes good choices.

We learnt that our pencil can make lots of different marks depending on how we use it.

We used the marks we learnt about to do observational  drawings of a shell.

Emily was our Artisan of the week, she got her award for being observant and drawing what she can see.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 3

 

Miss Bell was sick this week and she was away for the first three days, so we had three different teachers, we had Mrs Gill, Mrs Chambers and Mrs Neal. We did all sorts of things with these teachers including make clocks with little mice for the nursery rhyme Hickory dickory dock, we made pasta stars and created graphs about our birthdays and our favourite ice creams. On Wednesday we went outside and drew pictures of trees and wrote stories about what we could see. In the afternoon Mrs Neal asked us to make trees using classroom equipment, it was quite tricky but these are our trees.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term1, Week2

Phoebe was our Kowhai Express Star this week, she received her award for being an engaged learner, especially during writing activities.

This week we had a look at some paintings by Cezanne, he liked to paint fruit and jugs and wrinkly table cloths that we think  would be hard to draw and paint. Miss Bell brought some fruit to school and we had a go at drawing some of them, We had to work hard to draw what we could see and not what we thought things looked like. 

Sam brought a Crab to school that he found while he was on holiday. It was great you could see the nippers, legs and tail. It was a purple colour.

Jaxson’s Aunty B came to visit us on Thursday, she is an artist and is studying art. She brought photo of lots of different types of artworks she has completed. She draws, paints, collages and work in fabric and sculpture as well.  Her art work was incredible and we got to ask her some questions. We thought the collage she had done was really funny, so we had a go as well.

We also had a go at doing an observational  drawing of an alstroemeria bloom, we are still working hard to draw what we can see.

Mrs Brickwood also sent us some photos of artworks that her second cousin, Rebekah Codlin,  created, they are amazing.

Our Artisan of the week this week was Emily, she got her certificate for  being observant and drawing what she can see.

 

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 1, Week 1

There are 20 children in Room 7 and our classroom is called Gallery Seven.

 

On Monday we made our classroom logo by using lots of different equipment to make the letters for gallery seven.

 

We talked about what things we needed to do in Gallery Seven to make Gallery Seven a safe and happy place for everyone to be. We came up with some guidelines which Miss Bell put on  a canvas and then we all did a handprint around the outside to show they were ours.

 

We have decided that we would like to learn about artists and how to paint properly. Jaxson and Joe found some art books on the library shelf and tried drawing some pictures out of it, we also drew our self portraits for our CD frames and created an unusual pet using vivid and dye after reading Heironymous Betts and his unusual pets.

 

Jacob was our Artisan this week he got his award for being a self managing and engaged student who always tries his best.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, Week 7

Alicya and Shawn were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. Alicya got her award for effort and persistence during maths and Shawn got his for working hard to use a clear and   expressive voice when reading to the class.

Last Friday, Emelia and Lucia had dance exams. Emelia did ballet and Lucia did jazz. Lucia brought along the badges she has earnt. Last year she got her bronze and this year she received her silver. Well done Ladies, we are proud of you!

This week we had a go at drawing observation pictures from a photograph and then painting them in an abstract way to show the movement and shape we could see.

Ashtyn had a go at doing a wire sculpture at home with her dad, as practice for what we are going to do in class.

Molly and Ashtyn were our artisans of the week. Molly got her award for effort, improvement and being successful in developing skills in observational drawing. Ashtyn got her for being engaged and using her initiative to progress our Reggio exploration.

 

Gallery Seven Journal - Term 3, week 6

Eve and Sean were our Kowhai Express Stars this week. They both got their awards for effort and enthusiasm during writing.

We also got the Kowhai shield again this week.

Mrs Hocken came in one afternoon and brought in a stethoscope and a blood pressure cuff for us to look at and try and use. We listened to our heart beat and pumped up the cuff.

We finished our dancing circle observational drawing, we worked very hard on them and we can see the improvements we have made since our first drawing.

Keira and Ruben were our artisans of the week. Keira got hers for effort and persistence in maths especially with out fraction work and Ruben got his for being engaged and persistent in our circle dancing exploration.