Hello to all my Grade 5 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 6
GRADE 4 WEEK 6 REMOTE LEARNING 2020
GRADE 4 WEEK 6 REMOTE LEARNING
Your celestial bodies final artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
You must submit all your artworks (rough draft of four/2 ideas/final celestial bodies artwork) or your report for Semester 1 will state NEEDS ATTENTION in the Visual Arts section.
Hello to all my Grade 4 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 6
of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of CELESTIAL BODIES in ART!
So, in Week 3 you drew a rough draft of four different celestial bodies. If you didn’t do this work go to week 3 here.
And in Week 4 you drew 2 ideas for a celestial bodies artwork. If you didn’t do this work go to week 4 here.
Now, in Week 5 and week 6, I would like you to create your final artwork for this unit of work. I want you to create a celestial bodies final artwork.
This artwork will require some thinking and some organising. So this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
In the past, my grade 3 students have created a celestial bodies artwork using clay like this.
This artwork involved-
-
deciding which of the celestial bodies you were going to create with
-
deciding how the celestial bodies were going to interact if the student was using more than one type of celestial body
-
deciding whether the celestial bodies claywork was going to be 3D and freestanding or flat
-
painting the claywork after it came out of the kiln
But you won’t be making a celestial bodies clay work in the art room.
In this time of remote learning we all have to adapt to creating at home.
How can you produce an artwork that has more than one celestial body in it? How can you put them together? Or perhaps you just want to create one of the celestial bodies? What will you use?
So you have lots of choice with how you create your celestial bodies artwork. However I want you to use more than one sort of material or one way of creating your art work. You have choices to make!
So perhaps you will draw,
or paint, or use oil pastels or chalk or watercolour pencils,
or use lego,
or make 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 cut paper
or torn paper,
or cardboard
or aluminum foil
or use stuff from the kitchen drawers and cupboards
or stuff out of the laundry basket
or other stuff
or all of those things
or something I haven’t even listed!
This moon looks like it has been made using shaving cream!
If you want to look at more celestial bodies artworks go to my Pinterest board.
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice 
in how you create your artwork but I am NOT telling you to go out and buy stuff! Use what is already in your home! Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use or to make salt dough, or things like that.
Email your photos to me when you have finished.
shelley.menhennet@education.vic.gov.au
And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your artworks inspired by celestial bodies!
You can send it in earlier but remember this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
Have fun creating!
Mrs Menhennet
Don’t forget to leave a comment! My students love to read your comments!
GRADE 3 WEEK 6 REMOTE LEARNING 2020
GRADE 3 WEEK 6 REMOTE LEARNING 2020
Your sunflowers final artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
You must submit all your artworks (rough draft 4 sunflowers/rough draft vase of sunflowers/final artwork vase of sunflowers) or your report for Semester 1 will state NEEDS ATTENTION in the Visual Arts section.
Hello to all my Grade 3 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 6
of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflowers in ART!
So, in Week 3 you drew a rough draft of four different sunflowers.
If you didn’t do this work go to week 3 here.
And in Week 4 you drew a rough draft of a vase of sunflowers. if you didn’t do this work go to Week 4 here.
Now, in Week 5 and Week 6, I would like you to create your final artwork for this unit of work. I want you to create an artwork of a vase of sunflowers.
This artwork will require some thinking and some organising. So this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
In the past, my grade 3 students have created a vase of flowers like this.
This artwork involved-
-
drawing a line across the paper to show the edge of the table
-
painting the background and the table cloth
-
printing flower stems using a piece of scrap cardboard on its side
-
making sure the stems weren’t all perfectly straight
-
painting or printing sunflower heads leaving one stem without a head
-
making sure the sunflowers were not all just facing the front
-
some of the sunflowers might even be dropping their petals onto the tablecloth
-
folding a piece of coloured paper in half and drawing half a vase on one side, cutting out the shape and unfolding it to form a vase
-
gluing the paper vase on top of the stems
-
decorating the vase with buttons, beads, sequins, ribbon, paper and fabric scraps
-
creating the last sunflower head with Model Magic, an air dry clay, gluing it onto the last stem and painting it so one of the flower heads was three dimensional.
This sort of artwork is called mixed media because so many different sorts of materials and ways of creating are used at the same time to create a whole artwork.
But in this time of remote learning we all have to adapt to creating at home.
So you have lots of choice with how you create your vase of sunflowers this week. However I want you to use more than one sort of material or one way of creating your art work.
So perhaps you will draw
or paint
or use oil pastels
or use lego
or make 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 cut paper
or folded paper
or torn paper
or cardboard
use stuff from the kitchen drawers and cupboards
or stuff out of the laundry basket
or other stuff
or all of those things
or something I haven’t even listed!
And if you decide to create other sorts of flowers instead of sunflowers that is also okay.

This cooking artist, Lorraine Elliott from her website Not Quite Nigella has created a focaccia as a vase of sunflowers!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice 
in how you create your artwork but I am NOT telling you to go out and buy stuff! Use what is already in your home! Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use or to make salt dough, or things like that.
Email your photos to me when you have finished.
shelley.menhennet@education.vic.gov.au
And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your artworks inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings!
You can send it in earlier but remember this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
Have fun creating!
Mrs Menhennet
And here they are!
Yes, that is Sunflower bread! You saw it here first!
Don’t forget to leave a comment!
My students love reading your comments!
GRADE 4 WEEK 5 REMOTE LEARNING CELESTIAL BODIES 2020
GRADE 4 WEEK 5 REMOTE LEARNING
Hello to all my Grade 4 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 5
of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of CELESTIAL BODIES in ART!
So, in Week 3 you drew a rough draft of four different celestial bodies
And in Week 4 you drew 2 ideas for a celestial bodies artwork
Now, in Week 5, I would like you to create your final artwork for this unit of work. I want you to create a celestial bodies artwork.
This artwork will require some thinking and some organising. So this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
In the past, my grade 3 students have created a celestial bodies artwork using clay like this.
This artwork involved-
-
deciding which of the celestial bodies you were going to create with
-
deciding how the celestial bodies were going to interact if the student was using more than one type of celestial body
-
deciding whether the celestial bodies claywork was going to be 3D and freestanding or flat
-
painting the claywork after it came out of the kiln
But you won’t be making a celestial bodies clay work in the art room.
In this time of remote learning we all have to adapt to creating at home.
How can you produce an artwork that has more than one celestial body in it? How can you put them together? Or perhaps you just want to create one of the celestial bodies? What will you use?
So you have lots of choice with how you create your celestial bodies artwork. However I want you to use more than one sort of material or one way of creating your art work.
So perhaps you will draw
or paint
or use oil pastels or chalk or watercolour pencils
or use lego
or make 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 cut paper
or torn paper
or cardboard
or aluminum foil
use stuff from the kitchen drawers and cupboards
or stuff out of the laundry basket
or other stuff
or all of those things
or something I haven’t even listed!
This moon looks like it has been made using shaving cream!
If you want to look at more celestial bodies artworks go to my Pinterest board.
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice 
in how you create your artwork but I am NOT telling you to go out and buy stuff! Use what is already in your home! Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use or to make salt dough, or things like that.
Email your photos to me when you have finished.
shelley.menhennet@education.vic.gov.au
And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your artworks inspired by celestial bodies!
You can send it in earlier but remember this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
Have fun creating!
Mrs Menhennet
GRADE 3 WEEK 5 REMOTE LEARNING SUNFLOWERS 2020
Hello to all my Grade 3 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 5
of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of SUNFLOWERS AND VINCENT VAN GOGH!
So, in Week 3 you drew a rough draft of four different sunflowers.
And in Week 4 you drew a rough draft of a vase of sunflowers.
Now, in Week 5, I would like you to create your final artwork for this unit of work. I want you to create an artwork of a vase of sunflowers.
This artwork will require some thinking and some organising. So this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
In the past, my grade 3 students have created a vase of flowers like this.
This artwork involved-
-
drawing a line across the paper to show the edge of the table
-
painting the background and the table cloth
-
printing flower stems using a piece of scrap cardboard on its side
-
making sure the stems weren’t all perfectly straight
-
painting or printing sunflower heads leaving one stem without a head
-
making sure the sunflowers were not all just facing the front
-
some of the sunflowers might even be dropping their petals onto the tablecloth
-
folding a piece of coloured paper in half and drawing half a vase on one side, cutting out the shape and unfolding it to form a vase
-
gluing the paper vase on top of the stems
-
decorating the vase with buttons, beads, sequins, ribbon, paper and fabric scraps
-
creating the last sunflower head with Model Magic, an air dry clay, gluing it onto the last stem and painting it so one of the flower heads was three dimensional.
This sort of artwork is called mixed media because so many different sorts of materials and ways of creating are used at the same time to create a whole artwork.
But in this time of remote learning we all have to adapt to creating at home.
So you have lots of choice with how you create your vase of sunflowers this week. However I want you to use more than one sort of material or one way of creating your art work.
So perhaps you will draw
or paint
or use oil pastels
or use lego
or make 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 cut paper
or folded paper
or torn paper
or cardboard
use stuff from the kitchen drawers and cupboards
or stuff out of the laundry basket
or other stuff
or all of those things
or something I haven’t even listed!
And if you decide to create other sorts of flowers instead of sunflowers that is also okay.

This cooking artist, Lorraine Elliott from her website Not Quite Nigella has created a focaccia as a vase of sunflowers!
I am giving you lots and lots and lots of choice 
in how you create your artwork but I am NOT telling you to go out and buy stuff! Use what is already in your home! Don’t forget to ask permission to pull stuff out of cupboards to use or to make salt dough, or things like that.
Email your photos to me when you have finished.
shelley.menhennet@education.vic.gov.au
And, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!
I cannot wait to see your artworks inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s sunflower paintings!
You can send it in earlier but remember this artwork is due on Monday 24th May 2020!
Have fun creating!
Mrs Menhennet
GRADE 4 WEEK 4 REMOTE LEARNING CELESTIAL BODIES 2020
Hello to all my Grade 4 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 4 of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of CELESTIAL BODIES!
If you haven’t done the Week 3 activity yet please go back to Week 3 HERE.
Did you email your rough draft to me last week?
If you haven’t done that yet send it to me by email so I can put it onto the blog post. If you want to look at everybody else’s rough drafts, that is where they are, on last week’s blog post. Go to where it says HERE up above and it will take you there!
So by now you have looked at lots of images of celestial bodies and you have drawn 4 rough drafts as well.
If you want to look at more celestial bodies artworks go to my Pinterest board.
This week I would like to see 2 ideas for your own celestial bodies art work. You are NOT making the final art work yet. You are just working on 2 different ideas. How can you produce an artwork that has more than one celestial body in it? How can you put them together? Or perhaps you just want to create one of the celestial bodies? What will you use?
Fold a piece of paper in half so you have two spaces.
Draw up 2 different ideas for your final art work. You can use a bit of colour this time but REMEMBER this is NOT your final piece. This is just working on two different ideas!
What art materials will you use? Are you going to draw your final piece?
Pencils? Textas? Crayons? Oil pastels? Watercolour pencils?
Do you have any paint?
What have you got at home that you can use?
Perhaps you want to try to make a 3D artwork?
Playdoh? Plasticine or modelling clay?
Or you could make salt dough? But ask your parents permission first!
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.
What else have you got that you could use?
Lego? Other construction materials?
Scrap cardboard?
Anything else?
I am not asking you to rush out and buy materials to use for this task. Use what you already have at home.
And this week you are just coming up with 2 ideas, not actually doing the final piece. Do a drawing of your idea and write down what you think you might use to make it. Do this TWICE!
And remember, it is OKAY to change your mind!
You need to think like an artist and not see changing your mind as making a mistake, because it is NOT. It is just that you came up with a better idea!
And that’s it!
Photograph your paper, with two different ideas on it, with your device, and email it to me.
shelley.menhennet@education.vic.gov.au
I look forward to seeing your interesting ideas.
Bye!
Mrs Menhennet
Here they are!
HANDS UP FOR ART!
I created this display with the hands made by the Grade 1’s to get the year started off with a lovely activity and a lovely display!
The children traced their hands and arms, or asked a classmate to do it for them and then decorated them with patterns using the zoom crayons.
The following week they painted their hand using watercolour cakes(or blocks, whatever you like to call them). The grade 1’s had not used these before so needed to be taught to wash their brush when they were changing colours so the cake of watercolour did not become muddy.
I also insist that they look after the water pots themselves and if the water is too dirty they just go and empty it and refill the water pots themselves without asking me. This always results in a few water spills at the beginning (big deal, it is just water!) so we then discuss why the spill has occurred (rushing, too much water in the container) and what we do when they occur (put newspaper down immediately to help soak up the water and make the spillage more visible for others in the room and then clean it up as quickly as possible) and the spillages soon stop. It is all worth it in the end as I strive to make the children clean up after themselves. I am always stupefied by the number of children at Grade 1 level that have NO IDEA how to turn on a tap! This is all part of the learning process of being responsible artists!
I did not tell them that the crayon would resist the watercolour but waited until someone noticed it before we discussed it. “What’s happening here? Why isn’t the paint covering that crayon pattern?”
When they were dry cutting them out was the next challenge so I demonstrate how you can turn the paper while you are cutting slowly, a revelation for most grade 1’s, so you don’t just chop off all the fingers!
I ummed and aahed about how to display them and then settled on a circle. I layered them on the display board and tried NOT to staple the hands and fingers so they would move in any breeze that wafted past. I was going to put the sign in the top left corner in the middle but then found the bit of gold corrugated cardboard in the scrap box, added some cupcake wrappers for eyes (we used to call them patty pans when I was a kid) and it turned into a beaming sun, so appropriate as the start of the year was so very hot!
Thank you for the inspiration from this picture on Pinterest. I absolutely adore Pinterest!
I also saw this one on Pinterest too which has obviously been created by much older children.Thanks for looking and I would love it if you left a comment!
Shelley