Bradley and Molly were our Kowhai Express stars this week. Bradley got his for working well with others and showing persistence during dinosaur art time and Molly got hers for being experimental and persistent in her exploration of Kowhaiwhai patterns.
This week Harold giraffe and Bex visited us at school. We got to go into their big trailer and learn about the fact that we are all special. Harold sang us some funny songs and we saw a movie of him playing with his friends. We got to play with puppets and role played helping someone who was sad.
We have continued to explore kowhaiwhai patterns this week and we been spotting them everywhere. Alicya found this picture in a dictionary, she thought they looked like korus, but they are actually part of a Rangoli pattern which are from India.
Thomas found Koru’s on his biscuit at read and feed time.
This week we added new materials to how we explored the Kowhaiwhai patterns, some of us used tablet paints which we mixed with water, this allowed us to blend and mix the colours like we were doing with the chalk pastels. Some children have created plans to make a sculpture using clay and have started work on these. On Thursday we read some Maori myths and legends, Gavin Bishop a NewZealand artist had done the illustrations. It looked like he had used, crayon and dye, the pictures were awesome so some of us are experimenting with that and using dye over the pastels.
We were on assembly with our buddy class, this week. We took our completed sculptures to the assembly, we were excited to hare them with everyone.
Emelia and Jasmine were our Artisans of the week. They both got their awards for Being experimental and resourceful in their exploration of Kowhaiwhai patterns.
Some of their artwork on black paper is shown above.
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