This is week 6 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 2 students are remote learning at home!
This is week 6 and your Specialists Rich Task is due at the end of this week. If you need the instructions for the Rich Task you can find them on the Week 5 blog post. If you can’t find the Week 5 blog post there is a link to it in the sidebar of the blog in the section called Recent Blog Posts.
Please upload your Rich Task into the correct Edmodo folder. You also need to ensure you have submitted any other work for your Specialist teachers that is evidence of your participation in remote learning, into the correct place.
The Visual Arts swimming body drawing from Week 2 and Week 3 should be in their folders.
If you have already completed your rich task and uploaded all of your Specialist work here is one of my favourite stories for you to enjoy. It is called THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT by Drew Daywalt with illustrations by Oliver Jeffers.
The brilliant actor performing that read aloud of the story is Matt Chizever. His character voices for the different crayons are fantastic.
I tried really hard to find the same actor reading THE DAY THE CRAYONS CAME HOME without any luck. However, this actor does a great job of making the crayons come alive too. His name is Dave Edgren.
If you enjoyed the story or want to tell me anything else you can always post a comment at the end of this blog post.
If you don’t know how to post a comment I gave you instructions on how to do this last week.
Hello to all my Grade Prep students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 5 of Term 3 2020 and all my Prep students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of self portraits!
In week 2 I asked you to draw a self portrait after watching a video.
In week 3 I asked you to draw a monochromatic self portrait after watching another video.
I have made folders on your grade’s Class Dojo or Seesaw page for you to upload photos of your self portraits for Week 2 and Week 3. These photos are evidence that you have completed this work.
Here are the instructions for the Prep Specialists Rich Task.
If you have already completed your Specialists Rich Task you can skip this bit. On the audio file you can press the fast forward button.
This Rich Taskwill require some thinking and some organising. You will need time to complete it. So the Grade Prep Rich Task should be uploaded to your grade’s Class Dojo or Seesaw folder or portfolio by the end of WEEK 6!
For this Prep Specialists Rich Task, you will need to create a self portrait using “stuff” from around your house.
NO DRAWING!
Label your facial features in English and Italian.
You also need to create an animal face.
NO DRAWING!
Label the facial features of the animal in Italian and English.
Photograph your self portrait and your animal face using your device.
How will you complete this self portrait and animal face without drawing?
What will you use to create this rich task?
You will be using things that you already have at home.
You have lots of CHOICE with how you create your self portrait and animal face.
Perhaps you will create your self portrait with counters or blocks
or with lego
or with stuff from the kitchen cupboard
or cut pieces of paper
or paper plates
or wool or string
orfabric scraps
orplaydohandpasta
orstuff out of the laundry basket
or you could use some of these things
or all of these things
or something I haven’t even listed!
You could even use yourself as part of a huge self portrait like this person!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice
in how you create your rich task
I am NOT telling you to go out and buy new art materials or things to use!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
You need to THINK about what you already have at HOME and HOW you can use it.
Now STOP!
Before you start running around your house like a crazy person collecting objects let’s think about this.
I do not want you touching any objects that don’t belong to you without permission.
I also want you to know and understand that all good artists clean up after themselves.
So, every single thing that youuse in your rich task has to be put away properly and correctly after you have finished photographing it.
I cannot wait to see what you create!
Here is a story for you to enjoy. This is ‘The skin you live in’ by Michael Tyler.
READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!
Your VISUAL ARTS TASK FOR WEEK 5is to write a comment on my blog about the story.
It is easy to write a comment on my blog. Don’t forget to use capital letters and full stops.
At the end of this blog post you will find a section titled,
LEAVE A COMMENT (or add a comment if nobody else has written one yet!)
Under that is a large box in which you type your comment. It looks like this. You can’t write in this one, Silly. You have to use the box at the bottom of this post.
After you have written your comment there is an anti spam box. The anti spam box is there to prove you are a real person not just a computer bot generating random comments. You need to copy the text from the anti spam box into the other box, just like in the photo below.
Then you type your name into the name box. Don’t forget to tell me which grade you are in.
In the next box you type your email address. If you don’t have an email address then you can ask someone from your family if you can use their email address.
Click on the little square at the bottom and you will get an email when I write the reply to your comment.
Finally click on the button that says POST COMMENT and you will have successfully written a comment.
Congratulations. You have just written and posted a comment on the Back Art Room Blog!
You have until the end of week 6 to upload your rich task,
Hello to all my Grade 1 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 5 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 1 students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of colour!
To revise the order of the colours of the rainbow.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
To revise the instructions for the Specialists Rich Task.
For students to learn how to write a comment on my blog.
I know the order of the colours in the rainbow.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
I understand the instructions for the Specialist Rich Task.
I can write a comment and post it on The Back art Room Blog.
Let’s get started!
In Week 2 I asked you to draw a rainbow scene including the colours of the rainbow in order.
In week 3 I asked you to create a rainbow from found objects.
I have made folders on your grade’s Class Dojo page for you to upload photos of your creations for Week 2 and Week 3. These photos are evidence that you have completed this work.
Here are the Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task.
If you have already completed your Specialists Rich Task you can skip this bit. On the audio file you can press the fast forward button.
This Rich Task will require some thinking and some organising. You will need lots of time to complete it. So the Grade 1 Rich Task should be uploaded to your grade’s ClassDojo portfolio by the end of WEEK 6!
For this Grade 1 Specialists Rich task, you will create a character called ROY.G.BIV.
ROY G BIV needs to have a body.
A part of ROY.G.BIV’s body must be in RAINBOW ORDER like his name.
ROY.G.BIV’s body also needs to include at least one PATTERN.
You need to label ROY.G.BIV’s body in Italian and English.
What is ROY.G.BIV’s name in Italian?
Use digital technology to enhance your rich task. You might use Keynote or another creative app or other digital tools you know how to use. You might photograph or video your rich task as you create it.
What will you use to create this rich task?
In the past, in the art room, my students have createdROY G BIV like this.
This artwork involved –
Drawing a large face for ROY G BIV
Using coloured strips of paper for his hair in ROY G BIV order
He has also been created like this.
This artwork involved –
Drawing a LARGE head, neck and shoulders for ROY G BIV to fill the space on the paper. (If I wanted you to drawROY G BIV really small I would tell you to create your rich task on a tiny post it note!) DRAW BIG!
Using coloured strips of paper for his hair in ROY G BIV order
paintingdifferent parts of his body in particular colours
cutting out his mouth and giving him a colourful tongue
In this time of remotelearning, as artists, we are not working in the art room.
In this time of remote learning, as artists, we all have to adapt and change to creating at home.
So you won’t be able to create your ROY G BIV in exactly the same way that it has been made before. And that really doesn’t matter. You will all be brilliantly creative artists at home!
So I am giving you lots of CHOICE with how you create your ROY G BIV.
So perhaps you will drawwith oil pastels orpencils or textas or crayons
or paint with a brush
or paint with sponges
or print with objects
or paint with watered down food colouring
or use play doh
or make your own play doh or salt dough
Salt Dough Recipe
Ingredients
I cup salt
2 cups plain flour
1 cup hot water
Method
Add salt and plain flour to a bowl gradually adding hot water. You might not need all the water!
Mix together until a dough forms. Make sure it isn’t sticky.
Leave your salt dough creations to air dry overnight. Then put your salt dough creations in the oven at 120 degrees Celsius for about 3 hours.
When your salt dough creations are cool you can paint them. If you don’t have gloss paint and you want them to look shiny you can paint them with varnish when the paint is dry. If you don’t have any varnish just paint them with PVA glue. This will also make them nice and shiny.
or use adrawing or painting appon youripad
or cut plain or patterned paper
or use torn,plain or patterned paper
or scrapcardboard
or stuffout of thelaundry basket
or use lego
or make Roy G Biv out of rainbow cupcakes
and what about thefound object rainbowfrom last week?
Perhaps your found object rainbow could be ROY G BIV’s body? You could add more objects to create a head, legs, arms, hands, feet and create a found objectROY G BIV?
Imagine if the artworks below were created in rainbow colours?
So you could use some of these things
or all of these things
or something I haven’t even listed!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice
in how you create your rich task
I am NOT telling you to go out and buy newart materials to use!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
You need to THINK about what you already have at HOME and HOW you can use it.
Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use, or to make salt dough, or things like that.
· And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your ROY G BIVrich task!
Here is a story for you to enjoy. This is ‘Sky Colour’ by Peter H. Reynolds. He is the same author who wrote. the beautiful picture story book ‘The Dot’ .
READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!
Your VISUAL ARTS TASK FOR WEEK 5is to write a comment on my blog about the story.
It is easy to write a comment on my blog. Don’t forget to use capital letters and full stops.
At the end of this blog post you will find a section titled,
LEAVE A COMMENT (or add a comment if nobody else has written one yet!)
Under that is a large box in which you type your comment. It looks like this. You can’t write in this one, Silly. You have to use the box at the bottom of this post.
After you have written your comment there is an anti spam box. The anti spam box is there to prove you are a real person not just a computer bot generating random comments. You need to copy the text from the anti spam box into the other box, just like in the photo below.
Then you type your name into the name box. Don’t forget to tell me which grade you are in.
In the next box you type your email address. If you don’t have an email address then you can ask someone from your family if you can use their email address.
Click on the little square at the bottom and you will get an email when I write the reply to your comment.
Finally click on the button that says POST COMMENT and you will have successfully written a comment.
Congratulations.
You have until the end of week 6 to upload your rich task,
Hello to all my Grade 2 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 5 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 2 students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning about the English artist David Hockney and his paintings of water and swimming pools!
For students to explore the artworks of English artist David Hockney.
.To revise the instructions for the Specialist Rich Task.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
For students to learn how to write a comment on my blog.
I can view and think about the artworks of David Hockney by watching 2 short videos.
I understand the instructions for the Specialist Rich Task.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
I can write a comment and post it on The Back art Room Blog.
Let’s get started!
In Week 2 I asked you to draw yourself swimming in water.
In week 3 I asked you to draw yourself swimming in water again but I wanted you to try to improve on your drawing from week 2.
There is a folder for Week 2 and Week 3 on your grade’s Edmodo page for you to upload photos of your drawings These photos are evidence that you have completed this work.
Here are the Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task.
If you have already completed your Specialists Rich Task you can skip this bit. On the audio file you can press the fast forward button.
This Rich Task will require some thinking and some organising. You will need lots of time to complete it. So the Grade 2 Rich Task should be uploaded to your grade’s Edmodo folder by the end of WEEK 6!
For this Specialists Rich Task you will –
CREATE YOURSELF SWIMMING IN WATER.
How does the water and the motion of swimming affect your body?
How does the water and motion of swimming affect your hair?
How will you create the water?
Label the body parts of yourself in Italian and English.
Find out what the word for water is in Italian.
Use digital technologies to enhance your work. You might use a creative app or take photos of your rich task as you create it or make a video explaining how you created your rich task, etc, etc.
What will you use to create this artwork?
For the last two weeks you might have used pencils or crayons or textas to PRACTICE drawing yourself swimming in water.
Now, in creating this Rich Task, you need to think about what else you might use to create yourself swimming in water.
In the past, in the art room, my students have created themselves swimming in water like this.
This artwork involved –
Using colourful oil pastels to create their body swimming in water. Don’t forget your bathers!
Drawing their swimming body nice and large to fill the space on the paper. (If I wanted you to draw your swimming body really, really small I would tell you to create your art work on a tiny post it note!) DRAW BIG!
Using white oil pastel to draw wiggly lines in the water.
Using a blue wash of paint (blue paint or blue food dye with water in it) to paint over the white wiggly oil pastel lines.
Drawing or painting water is a challenge. The water is always moving. There are reflections in the water. The water moves and distorts the image of whatever is under the water. The water moves and distorts the image it is reflecting.
In this time of remotelearning, as artists, we are not working in the art room.
In this time of remote learning, as artists, we all have to adapt and change to creating at home.
So you won’t be able to create your bodyswimming in water in exactly the same way that it has been made before. And that really doesn’t matter. You will all be brilliantly creative artists at home!
So I am giving you lots of CHOICE with how you create yourself swimming in water. I also want you to USE MORE THAN ONE ART MATERIAL OR WAY OF CREATING when you are making your rich task.
So perhaps you will draw with oil pastels
or watercolour pencils
or textas smudged with a wet brush
or paint with a sponge
or paint with scrunched up newspaper
will you use watercolour paint
or watered down food colouring
or use play doh
or make your own play doh or salt dough
Salt Dough Recipe
Ingredients
I cup salt
2 cups plain flour
1 cup hot water
Method
Add salt and plain flour to a bowl gradually adding hot water. You might not need all the water!
Mix together until a dough forms. Make sure it isn’t sticky.
Leave your salt dough creations to air dry overnight. Then put your salt dough creations in the oven at 120 degrees Celsius for about 3 hours.
When your salt dough creations are cool you can paint them. If you don’t have gloss paint and you want them to look shiny you can paint them with varnish when the paint is dry. If you don’t have any varnish just paint them with PVA glue. This will also make them nice and shiny.
or use a drawing or painting app on your ipad
or cut plain or patterned paper
or tear plain or patterned paper
or use scrap cardboard
or stuff out of the laundry basket
or other stuff
or some of those things
or all of those things
or something I haven’t even listed!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice
in how you create your rich task
I am NOT telling you to go out and buy new art materials to use!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
You need to THINK about what you already have at HOME and HOW you can use it.
Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use, or to make salt dough, or things like that.
And because this is a rich task you also need to
Label the body parts of yourself in Italian and English.
Find out what the word for water is in Italian.
Use digital technologies to enhance your work. You might use a creative app or take photos of your rich task as you create it or make a video explaining how you created your rich task, etc, etc.
· And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your rich tasksinspired by David Hockney’s swimming paintings!
Here are two short videos for you to watch about David Hockney and his art.
In the first video the teacher talks about the artwork she wants her students to make. This is similar to the artwork Cambridge Primary School students have created in the past. You DO NOT have to create your Rich Task exactly in this way.
The second video shows some of David Hockney’s beautiful landscapes on show at The Royal Academy in London several years ago.
READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!
Your VISUAL ARTS TASK FOR WEEK 5is to write a comment on my blog about the videos.
It is easy to write a comment on my blog. Don’t forget to use capital letters and full stops.
At the end of this blog post you will find a section titled,
LEAVE A COMMENT (or add a comment if nobody else has written one yet!)
Under that is a large box in which you type your comment. It looks like this. You can’t write in this one, Silly. You have to use the box at the bottom of this post.
After you have written your comment there is an anti spam box. The anti spam box is there to prove you are a real person not just a computer bot generating random comments. You need to copy the text from the anti spam box into the other box, just like in the photo below.
Then you type your name into the name box. Don’t forget to tell me which grade you are in.
In the next box you type your email address. If you don’t have an email address then you can ask someone from your family if you can use their email address.
Click on the little square at the bottom and you will get an email when I write the reply to your comment.
Finally click on the button that says POST COMMENT and you will have successfully written a comment.
Congratulations.
You have until the end of week 6 to upload your rich task,
Hello to all my Grade 2 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 4 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 2 students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning about the English artist David Hockney and his paintings of water and swimming pools!
For students to explore the artworks of English artist David Hockney.
For students to experiment and explore drawing their body moving in water.
To introduce the instructions for the Specialist Rich Task.
To revise the audio function on my blog post.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
I can view and think about the artworks of David Hockney.
I can experiment and explore drawing my body moving in water.
I understand the instructions for the Specialist Rich Task.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
Let’s get started!
In Week 2 I asked you to draw yourself swimming in water.
Last week (week 3) I asked you to draw yourself swimming in water again but I wanted you to try to improve on your drawing from week 2.
Some artists might have improved the way they drew hair moving in water or put bends in elbows or knees. I have made folders on your grade’s edmodo page for you to upload photos of your drawings for Week 2 and Week 3. These photos are evidence that you have completed this work.
Here are the Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task.
This Rich Task will require some thinking and some organising. You will need lots of time to complete it. So the Grade 2 Rich Task should be uploaded to your grade’s Edmodo folder by the end of WEEK 6!
For this Specialists Rich Task you will –
CREATE YOURSELF SWIMMING IN WATER.
How does the water and the motion of swimming affect your body?
How does the water and motion of swimming affect your hair?
How will you create the water?
Label the body parts of yourself in Italian and English.
Find out what the word for water is in Italian.
Use digital technologies to enhance your work. You might use a creative app or take photos of your rich task as you create it or make a video explaining how you created your rich task, etc, etc.
What will you use to create this artwork?
For the last two weeks you might have used pencils or crayons or textas to PRACTICE drawing yourself swimming in water.
Now, in creating this Rich Task, you need to think about what else you might use to create yourself swimming in water.
In the past, in the art room, my students have created themselves swimming in water like this.
This artwork involved –
Using colourful oil pastels to create their body swimming in water. Don’t forget your bathers!
Drawing their swimming body nice and large to fill the space on the paper. (If I wanted you to draw your swimming body really, really small I would tell you to create your art work on a tiny post it note!) DRAW BIG!
Using white oil pastel to draw wiggly lines in the water.
Using a blue wash of paint (blue paint or blue food dye with water in it) to paint over the white wiggly oil pastel lines.
Drawing or painting water is a challenge. The water is always moving. There are reflections in the water. The water moves and distorts the image of whatever is under the water. The water moves and distorts the image it is reflecting.
In this time of remotelearning, as artists, we are not working in the art room.
In this time of remote learning, as artists, we all have to adapt and change to creating at home.
So you won’t be able to create your bodyswimming in water in exactly the same way that it has been made before. And that really doesn’t matter. You will all be brilliantly creative artists at home!
So I am giving you lots of CHOICE with how you create yourself swimming in water. I also want you to USE MORE THAN ONE ART MATERIAL OR WAY OF CREATING when you are making your rich task.
So perhaps you will draw with oil pastels
or watercolour pencils
or textas smudged with a wet brush
or paint with a sponge
or paint with scrunched up newspaper
will you use watercolour paint
or watered down food colouring
or use play doh
or make your own play doh or salt dough
Salt Dough Recipe
Ingredients
I cup salt
2 cups plain flour
1 cup hot water
Method
Add salt and plain flour to a bowl gradually adding hot water. You might not need all the water!
Mix together until a dough forms. Make sure it isn’t sticky.
Leave your salt dough creations to air dry overnight. Then put your salt dough creations in the oven at 120 degrees Celsius for about 3 hours.
When your salt dough creations are cool you can paint them. If you don’t have gloss paint and you want them to look shiny you can paint them with varnish when the paint is dry. If you don’t have any varnish just paint them with PVA glue. This will also make them nice and shiny.
or use a drawing or painting app on your ipad
or cut plain or patterned paper
or tear plain or patterned paper
or use scrap cardboard
or stuff out of the laundry basket
or other stuff
or some of those things
or all of those things
or something I haven’t even listed!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice
in how you create your rich task
I am NOT telling you to go out and buy new art materials to use!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
You need to THINK about what you already have at HOME and HOW you can use it.
Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use, or to make salt dough, or things like that.
And because this is a rich task you also need to
Label the body parts of yourself in Italian and English.
Find out what the word for water is in Italian.
Use digital technologies to enhance your work. You might use a creative app or take photos of your rich task as you create it or make a video explaining how you created your rich task, etc, etc.
· And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your rich tasksinspired by David Hockney’s swimming paintings!
So for inspiration, before you get working, let’s look again at some of those paintings by David Hockney of swimming bodies in water.
All the swimmers in David Hockney’s paintings above have bent knees and bent arms. Bent knees and bent arms will help your body look like it is moving.
This is one of David Hockney’s Ipad drawings of a rainy night.
David Hockney was asked to design posters for the Olympic Games in Munich in 1972. This is his beautiful artwork called the Diver. Look how he painted the water and the diver’s reflection!
Did you know David Hockney was asked to paint a real swimming pool?
It is a massive swimming pool at a big hotel in California, in the USA.
These are swimming bodies that have been created by Cambridge Primary School students as well as some swimming photos at the end of the blog post.
You have until the end of week 6 to upload your rich task,
Hello to all my Grade 1 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 4 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 1 students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of colour!
To revise the order of the colours of the rainbow.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
To introduce the instructions for the Specialists Rich Task.
I know the order of the colours in the rainbow.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
I understand the instructions for the Specialist Rich Task.
Let’s get started!
In Week 2 I asked you to draw a rainbow scene including the colours of the rainbow in order.
Last week (week 3) I asked you to create a rainbow from found objects.
I have made folders on your grade’s Class Dojo page for you to upload photos of your creations for Week 2 and Week 3. These photos are evidence that you have completed this work.
Here are the Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task.
This Rich Task will require some thinking and some organising. You will need lots of time to complete it. So the Grade 1 Rich Task should be uploaded to your grade’s ClassDojo portfolio by the end of WEEK 6!
For this Grade 1 Specialists Rich task, you will create a character called ROY.G.BIV.
ROY G BIV needs to have a body.
A part of ROY.G.BIV’s body must be in RAINBOW ORDER like his name.
ROY.G.BIV’s body also needs to include at least one PATTERN.
You need to label ROY.G.BIV’s body in Italian and English.
What is ROY.G.BIV’s name in Italian?
Use digital technology to enhance your rich task. You might use Keynote or another creative app or other digital tools you know how to use. You might photograph or video your rich task as you create it.
What will you use to create this rich task?
In the past, in the art room, my students have createdROY G BIV like this.
This artwork involved –
Drawing a large face for ROY G BIV
Using coloured strips of paper for his hair in ROY G BIV order
He has also been created like this.
This artwork involved –
Drawing a LARGE head, neck and shoulders for ROY G BIV to fill the space on the paper. (If I wanted you to drawROY G BIV really small I would tell you to create your rich task on a tiny post it note!) DRAW BIG!
Using coloured strips of paper for his hair in ROY G BIV order
paintingdifferent parts of his body in particular colours
cutting out his mouth and giving him a colourful tongue
In this time of remotelearning, as artists, we are not working in the art room.
In this time of remote learning, as artists, we all have to adapt and change to creating at home.
So you won’t be able to create your ROY G BIV in exactly the same way that it has been made before. And that really doesn’t matter. You will all be brilliantly creative artists at home!
So I am giving you lots of CHOICE with how you create your ROY G BIV.
So perhaps you will drawwith oil pastels orpencils or textas or crayons
or paint with a brush
or paint with sponges
or print with objects
or paint with watered down food colouring
or use play doh
or make your own play doh or salt dough
Salt Dough Recipe
Ingredients
I cup salt
2 cups plain flour
1 cup hot water
Method
Add salt and plain flour to a bowl gradually adding hot water. You might not need all the water!
Mix together until a dough forms. Make sure it isn’t sticky.
Leave your salt dough creations to air dry overnight. Then put your salt dough creations in the oven at 120 degrees Celsius for about 3 hours.
When your salt dough creations are cool you can paint them. If you don’t have gloss paint and you want them to look shiny you can paint them with varnish when the paint is dry. If you don’t have any varnish just paint them with PVA glue. This will also make them nice and shiny.
or use adrawing or painting appon youripad
or cut plain or patterned paper
or use torn,plain or patterned paper
or scrapcardboard
or stuffout of thelaundry basket
or use lego
or make Roy G Biv out of rainbow cupcakes
and what about thefound object rainbowfrom last week?
Perhaps your found object rainbow could be ROY G BIV’s body? You could add more objects to create a head, legs, arms, hands, feet and create a found objectROY G BIV?
Imagine if the artworks below were created in rainbow colours?
So you could use some of these things
or all of these things
or something I haven’t even listed!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice
in how you create your rich task
I am NOT telling you to go out and buy newart materials to use!
NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!
You need to THINK about what you already have at HOME and HOW you can use it.
Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use, or to make salt dough, or things like that.
· And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your ROY G BIVrich task!
So before you get started I think we should sing the ROY G BIV song together. I hope I can hear you!
Hello to all my Grade PREP students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 3 of Term 3 2020 and all my Prep students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of self portraits !
Last week I asked you to draw a self portrait after watching a video.
I hope you kept last week’s self portrait somewhere nice and safe. You will need to submit last week’s self portrait as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.
Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task will be forwarded to you soon.
We are going to be drawing a new self portrait soon so you will need some paper,
some pencils,
or crayons,
or textas.
Some people call textas, markers.
And I would really like it if you had a small mirror so you can look at yourself.
So I am going to give you a little bit of time to organise yourself.
I will just sit here on my blog and wait for you to collect some pencils and textas, some paper and, hopefully, a mirror.
If you don’t have a small mirror you can use to look at yourself perhaps you can move yourself to draw on the floor somewhere in your house, maybe in the bathroom, where there is a big mirror,
so you can use the big mirror to look at yourself.
So I will just wait until you are ready……..
Oh, you are ready already! That was so fast! Well done!
So while you were getting ready to draw I found a beautiful story to share with you so let’s watch the video.
If you need to stop the video at anytime you can just press the pause button and then come back to the story.
PART 2 READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET
Oh, that was a lovely story called “The Colour of Us” written and illustrated by Karen Katz.
I thought the illustrations were just gorgeous. Karen Katz is a very clever author and artist. She wrote the story about her daughter Lena and a conversation they had one day when they went out for a walk.
Now I would like you to get your small or big mirror
and have a very good look at your face!
Today you are again going to draw a SELF PORTRAIT but it will be a bit different this time.
Today you are going to draw a MONOCHROMATIC
SELF PORTRAIT.
Yes, it’s a very big word – monochromatic.
I want you to say that long word after me – monochromatic.
Let’s try it again – monochromatic.
Now I want you to say after me – monochromaticself portrait.
Well done!
If we break the word up the mono part means one and the chromatic part means colour. So now you are going to watch a video made by a very clever art teacher called Cassie Stephens.
She is going to show you some self portraits painted by artists and then show you how to draw a monochromatic self portrait.
In the video she talks to her students about using a very small piece of paper. You can use whatever size paper you have.
In the video she uses a thin black texta to start her drawing. You can use one if you like but you could also use a black pencil.
Let’s watch the video.
PART 3 READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET.
In the video Cassie decides to do her monochromatic self portrait using green. These are monochromatic self portraits that were done by some of Cassie’s students.
You don’t have to choose green but whatever colour you choose you need to have several lights and darks of that colour.
I hope you have fun drawing your monochromatic self portrait.
You don’t have to submit your drawing this week. Again, I would like you to keep your drawing nice and safe. You will then submit this week’s monochromatic self portrait as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.
Hello to all my Grade 1 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 3 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 1 students are remote learning at home!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of colour!
Last week I asked you to draw a rainbow scene including the colours of the rainbow in order.
I hope you kept last week’s rainbow drawing somewhere nice and safe. You will need to submit last week’s rainbow drawing as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.
Instructions for the Specialists Rich Task will be forwarded to you soon.
To revise the order of the colours of the rainbow.
To revise the audio function on my blog post.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
To create a rainbow using found objects.
I watch and listen to the video song about Roy G Biv.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
I can create a found object rainbow with the colours in the correct order.
Let’s get started!
I know you loved last week’s fantastic song about Roy G Biv so here it is again for you to enjoy. Perhaps I will be able to hear some students singing along this time.
Let’s watch and sing along with the video.
If you need to stop the video at anytime you can just press the pause button and then come back to the song.
Part 2 READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!
This week I don’t want you to draw a rainbow.
This week we are going to do something different.
I want you to create a rainbow using objects that you can find around your house!
Yes, that’s right, I want you to make a rainbow using objects you can find around your house.
The photo above shows a rainbow that a student made using objects they found around their house.
You can see that they used toys, blocks, textas, pencils, cars, all sorts of things.
Now STOP!
Before you start running around your house like a crazy person collecting objects let’s think about this.
I do not want you touching any objects that don’t belong to you without permission.
I also want you to know and understand that all good artists clean up after themselves.
So, every single thing that you use in your rainbow of objects has to be put away properly and correctly after you have finished photographing your artwork.
Here is another photo of a rainbow of found objects.
You could also use socks, t shirts, scarves, hats, balls, balloons, ribbons, tea towels, face washers, plastic bottles, plastic cups, etc, etc.
And how will you remember the order of the colours for your found object rainbow?
ROY G BIV, of course!
Look at these huge rainbows some artists created out of found objects!
When your rainbow of found objects is finished please photograph it with your device.
You don’t need to submit your photo this week.
You will submit your photo of your found object rainbow as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.
Have fun,
Mrs Menhennet
NOW HERE ARE THE GRADE 1 STUDENTS FOUND OBJECT RAINBOWS!
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Zane 1F found object rainbow 2020
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Raam 1F found object rainbow 2020
Chanelle 1F found object rainbow 2020
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Akhila 1F found object rainbow 2020
Connor 1F found object rainbow 2020
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Logan 1F found object rainbow 2020
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Natalie 1F found object rainbow 2020
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Hadi 1F found object rainbow 2020
Peyton 1F found object rainbow 2020
Adithya 1C found object rainbow 2020
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Josh 1D found object rainbow 2020
Blake 1D found object rainbow 2020
Ricky 1D found object rainbow 2020
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Hello to all my Grade 2 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 2 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 2 students are at home!
This is not the way I usually work with Grade 2 students to teach them about Visual Arts but we will be doing this for a few weeks until it is safe to attend school again.
Until then, we will be learning like this – online – using my blog!
You will remember me from our time in the art room together last year.
Yes, it’s me – Mrs Menhennet! Most Cambridge Primary School students that know me, recognise me by my multicoloured hair!!!
Cambridge Primary School students always ask me, “Mrs Menhennet, how come you have all those colours in your hair?”
And I always tell them, “I don’t know. It just grew like that!”
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning about the English artist David Hockney and his paintings of water and swimming pools!
For students to explore the artworks of English artist David Hockney.
For students to experiment and explore drawing their body moving in water.
To introduce the audio function on my blog post.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
I can view and think about the artworks of David Hockney.
I can experiment and explore drawing my body moving in water.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
Let’s get started!
David Hockney is an artist who comes from Yorkshire in England in the United Kingdom.
This map shows where Yorkshire is in the United Kingdom.
This map of the world shows where the United kingdom is in relation to Australia.
He was born on the 9th July in 1937. So that means a couple of week’s ago he had his 83rd birthday!
That’s a lot of candles!
This is a photo of David Hockney sitting in a chair and two self portraits.
One of these is from 2003 when he was 67.
One is from 1954 when he was 17.
One is from 1970 when he was 33.
Can you figure out which one is which?
I’ll give you some thinking time to see if you can figure it out.
Yes, that’s right! The self portrait of him wearing the red scarf is from when he was 17. He first decided he wanted to be an artist when he was 11.
The photo of him in the chair, dressed so colourfully in a pink checked suit with bright red and green socks, is from when he was 33,
And the self portrait of him painting is from when he was 67.
Well done if you got those correct.
And now David Hockney is 83 years old and he is still painting and creating!
Way back in the 1960s, about 50 years ago, David Hockney travelled to the United States and flew into the airport in sunny California from cold and wintery England.
He was amazed at all the bright blue rectangles he could see out of the plane window as they were coming in to land.
What were those bright blue rectangles he could see?
Yes, swimming pools!
So David Hockney started painting pools, and people swimming, in the bright California sunshine.
This one is called, “A bigger splash”.
This painting always makes me feel like it is an extremely hot day.
The bright blue cloudless sky is almost shimmering in the heat.
The paving around the pool would feel hot under my feet and I would hop and skip my way around the pool knowing that the deep blue water would cool my feet down.
What is that yellowy rectangle jutting out over the water?
Yes, it is a diving board! What has just happened in this painting?
Someone has walked along the board, bounced a little on the end, and dived into the pool!
All we can see now is the splash flying up into the air.
We can’t see the swimmer at all, as they have already slithered and slipped away, under the surface of the cool blue water.
It’s almost like David Hockney was using his canvas as a photograph to capture that moment of the splash.
And that is what David Hockney discovered there on the side of the pool.
The splashes are always different.
The water is always moving.
Lines painted in the pool bend in the water.
There are shadows in the water.
Swimming bodies look different to standing or walking bodies.
And swimming bodies make strange, sometimes blurry shapes in the water.
So David Hockney started creating paintings of swimming pools and swimmers and water and nearly every time he painted the water it was different.
He wasn’t afraid to try new ways of doing things and experimented and tried new ways to paint water.
We are going to be drawing soon so you will need some paper,
some pencils,
or crayons,
or textas.
Some people call textas, markers.
I am going to give you a little bit of time to organise yourself.
I will just sit here on my blog and wait for you to collect some pencils and textas or crayons and some paper.
The size of the paper or what sort of paper it is doesn’t really matter.
So I will just wait until you are ready……..
Oh, you are ready already! That was so fast! Well done!
Let’s look at this painting again.
This painting is called, “Pool with two figures.”
The man on the side of the pool is looking down at the swimmer. I wonder what he is thinking?
His body is positioned very differently to the swimmer. his arms are flat by his sides.
His back is straight. His neck is bent, his eyes looking down at the water.
Even though we can’t see his eyes we know that is what he is doing.
Now let’s look at the swimmer. Is his body standing straight with arms at the sides?
No! His arms are stretching out in front of his head.
I think he is reaching for the end of the pool. Soon he will feel the smooth tiles under his fingers and he will know he is there.
Will he pull his head up out of the water and look at his friend standing there?
Or will he do a quick flip and tumble over in the water to swim back the other way? Will he surprise his friend standing there watching, and splash him?
I want you to draw a picture of yourself swimming in water but
this is GRADE 2 so I want you using your brain and thinking hard before you start!
Close your eyes.
Yes, I said close your eyes.
I want you to think…… close your eyes!
.
I want you to think about….. Close your eyes!!!
My SUPER ART TEACHER POWERS are telling me you are peeking and I want you to get drawing, so close your eyes!
I want you to stand nice and tall and straight like the man on the side of the pool.
Are you standing? Arms down by your side and your head slightly bent.
I have just used my SUPER ART TEACHER POWERS and you are now moving in SLOW MOTION.
Your head is still bent forward and you start to slowly bend your whole body forward, slowly, slowly and topple into the pool with all your clothes on!
How do you feel?
Get your head up out of the water so you can breathe!
You are no longer moving in slow motion but you are very relaxed and floating in the water. How do your arms and legs move when you are just floating in the water?
They just sort of blob along with the movement of the water, don’t they? It’s very relaxing as this pool water is warm. So it is a bit like blobbing along in a gigantic warm bath.
Now slowly and gently get yourself into a swimming position. Off you go, swimming in the wonderfully soothing warm water.
What are your arms doing?
How are your legs moving?
How does the water affect your hair? Does your hair move in the water?
You can open your eyes now!
Now you are ready to DRAW!
I want you to draw yourself floating in water.
Sometimes, when my students start drawing they start with a teeny tiny drawing because they are not too sure about what they are doing.
I don’t want you to draw a teeny tiny picture of yourself. The drawing of the body below is way too small.
I want you to draw a great BIG picture of yourself floating in water on whatever sized paper you have!
So, let’s practice using your magic finger.
Hold up your magic finger!
Wave it around in the air!
Make sure it is switched on!
Let’s test it out. Draw a small circle in the air.
Draw a large square in the air.
Write your name in the air.
Write your name 3 times really fast in the air!
Oh, you are faster than me as my name is soooooo looooong!
Now put your magic finger in the air and draw your body.
Okay, so now we know it is working use your magic finger to draw a very small picture of yourself on your paper. Your magic finger is fantastic to practice drawing with as it draws invisibly and you never have to rub it out!
Now draw yourself floating in water a little bit bigger with your magic finger on your paper.
Now draw yourself really big on your paper with your magic finger.
By practising with your magic finger I hope you will end up drawing yourself nice and large on your paper.
You can use lots of colour if you like but even if you just use a pencil for this drawing that will be fine. This is just practice so please don’t be too critical of yourself if you don’t think it is perfect. Please keep your drawing so we can look at it again next week.
Have fun,
Mrs Menhennet
Grade 2 Week 2 2020 Swimming in water first drawing.
Hello to all my Grade 1 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
This is week 2 of Term 3 2020 and all my Grade 1 students are at home!
This is not the way I usually work with Grade 1 students to teach them about Visual Arts but we will be doing this for a few weeks until it is safe to attend school again.
Until then, we will be learning like this – online – using my blog!
You will remember me from our time in the art room together last year.
Yes, it’s me – Mrs Menhennet! Most Cambridge Primary School students that know me, recognise me by my multicoloured hair!!!
Cambridge Primary School students always ask me, “Mrs Menhennet, how come you have all those colours in your hair?”
And I always tell them, “I don’t know. It just grew like that!”
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of colour !
To introduce the order of the colours of the rainbow.
To remind students of the elements needed for a rainbow to occur in the sky.
To introduce the audio function on my blog post.
To read along with Mrs Menhennet as she reads the blog post aloud.
I watch and listen to the video song about Roy G Biv.
I can create a rainbow scene artwork with the colours of the rainbow in order.
I can create a rainbow scene artwork including the elements needed for a rainbow to occur.
I can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.
Let’s get started!
We are going to be drawing a rainbow soon so you will need some paper,
some pencils,
or crayons,
or textas.
Some people call textas, markers.
I am going to give you a little bit of time to organise yourself.
I will just sit here on my blog and wait for you to collect some pencils and textas or crayons and some paper.
The size of the paper or what sort of paper it is doesn’t really matter.
So I will just wait until you are ready……..
Oh, you are ready already! That was so fast! Well done!
So while you were getting ready to draw I found a fantastic song to share with you so let’s watch the video.
If you need to stop the video at anytime you can just press the pause button
and then come back to the story.
Oh, okay, okay, you already knew that! I’m sorry I forgot how clever Cambridge Primary School Grade 1 students are!
I will not be surprised if you end up watching that song over and over again.
So what was that little elf’s name?
Yes, that’s right! His name is Roy G Biv.
Roy G Biv.
That’s a very unusual name.
Why do you think he is called Roy G Biv?
Oh, you are too clever.
His name is Roy G Biv because the letters of his name are the colours of the rainbow, in order.
R is for red.
O is for orange.
Y is for yellow.
G is for green.
B is for blue.
I is for indigo.
And V is for violet.
So, if you remember the name Roy G Biv you will remember the order of the colours of the rainbow.
Now, as much as I like the video we just watched and I think the song is fantastic, I don’t like the way they show the colour indigo.
On the video indigo looks like a weird sort of pinky purple when indigo is actually a dark, dark, dark purply blue.
I always describe indigo as being the darkest purply blue of the sky in the evening, just before the sky turns black.
It is a much, much darker blue than the navy blue of our school uniforms.
So now you know all about the order of the colours of the rainbow I want you to draw a fantastic picture of a rainbow but
I don’t just want a picture of a rainbow. This is grade 1 so I want you using your brain and think really hard!
What do we need for a rainbow to appear in the sky? Do you know?
Yes, we need rain!
What else do we need?
Yes, we need the sun!
And there is something else we need. What could it be?
We have the sun and the rain but there is something else we need and it’s a little bit tricky!
Have a think!
Yes, you are too clever. We need clouds as well.
If there weren’t any clouds in the sky it wouldn’t be raining so we need clouds in the sky too.
Okay, so when you do your rainbow drawing I expect to see rain, the sun and clouds or there wouldn’t be a rainbow in your drawing. Does that make sense?
And when we are talking about what we need for a rainbow to appear in the sky we are actually doing Science while we are doing Visual Arts! Wow!
So I want to HEAR you say that you know we are doing Science during Visual Arts. So say it after me. “That’s Science in Visual Arts!”
Wait a minute! That was a bit too quiet. Say it after me, “That’s Science in Visual Arts!”
Hmmm, that was still too quiet. You are in your house and I am in my house so you are going to have to shout it for me to hear you so shout it after me, “That’s Science in Visual Arts!!!”
Wow! That was so loud my ears just fell off!
Right I’ve just stuck my ears back on so we can continue.
Before we start drawing I want you to think about the rainbow being shaped like a hump or an arch.
Sometimes, my students, when drawing a rainbow, start with a teeny tiny arch and they find they can’t fit all the colours into their rainbow as it is just too squishy.
Also a teeny, tiny rainbow might just look way too small on your paper so I don’t want you to draw a teeny tiny rainbow.
I want you to draw a great BIG, HUGE, ENORMOUS rainbow on your paper!
So, let’s practice using your magic finger.
Hold up your magic finger!
Wave it around in the air!
Make sure it is switched on!
Let’s test it out. Draw a small circle in the air.
Draw a large square in the air.
Write your name in the air.
Write your name 3 times really fast in the air!
Oh, you are faster than me as my name is soooooo looooong!
Now put your magic finger in the air and draw an arch.
Okay, so now we know it is working use your magic finger to draw a very small arch on your paper. Your magic finger is fantastic to practice drawing with as it draws invisibly and you never have to rub it out!
Now draw an arch a little bit bigger with your magic finger on your paper.
Now draw a really big arch on your paper with your magic finger.
By practising that arch shape with your magic finger I hope you will end up drawing a nice large rainbow on your paper.
So your drawing needs to include a large rainbow, the sun, rain and clouds. You can even include a little Roy G Biv elf if you want!
But this is grade 1 so that is not all.
I don’t want to see any white paper gaps in your drawing.
Do you remember last year when we were painting and I told you I didn’t want any white paper gaps in your painting? Well this is just like that.
If you draw a really large rainbow, with all it’s colours in order.
And you draw the sun and lots of clouds and rain and Roy G Biv, there shouldn’t be much space left anyway.
But if there is white space left on your paper I want you to think about what you can draw to fill the space so your drawing is complete.
So, let’s make a list of what you need to draw –
a really big rainbow with all the colours in order
