7/8 Whanau Class

Hmmm, not sure which blog this lovely class fits into. So I think this post might get repeated. Lovely Xarnie pointed out that I did not have any photos of this class's work up yet. So I am obliging now. This is the start of blocking in some details for an impressionist style painting. Students have actively drawn a lot of drawings of the outside environment focussing on the trees that we have in our school-scape.

We worked "En Plein Air" - 'outside' in French. It was a revolutionary thing that the "Impressionists" did; painting from where they were and what they could see rather than Greek and Roman myths and legends that they had to make up.



These trees were planted when the school was first built. They are older than our students and well-established. They likely all have a wonderful history and if they could talk, a lot of stories to tell!

We worked on using the rule of thirds, dividing the image and then our paper into 3 sections, length-wise and width-wise. There was the tiniest bit of numeracy in this today and everyone coped really well, thinking things through for themselves. Jaleel became the expert at folding the papers into 3's rather than measuring, Nia was amazing in her resilience and independent work ethic, Michelle was possibly the quickest to get onto drawing. 7/8 Wh are lovely, good natured and very, very capable.



Our next step is to start playing with paint and colour theory.

That, and making sure we figure out our Art tikanga in J block...