Hello to all my Grade 3/4/5/6/E students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 10 of Term 2 2020 already or that we are all back to school together again! HOORAY! to us all, as we all survived more than 8 weeks of remote learning and teaching at Cambridge Primary School
in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia.
While COVID19 is still active in Victoria, and according to the Department of Education and Training guidelines, Cambridge Primary School is trying to limit the amount of items that we SHARE at school. This includes while working in the Art Room.
So, please bring your PENCIL CASE, your IPAD and HEADPHONES to each Visual Arts session for the rest of this term!
Also, EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE, is feeling a little STRESSEDand ANXIOUSabout being back at school, all together, after such a long time away. It is totally NORMAL to feel this way.
So let’s all promise to BE EXTRA KIND TO EACH OTHER as we work together at school over the last weeks of term 2.
revise art room expectations
ensure ALL students have completed ALL Visual Arts requirements for SEMESTER 1 REPORTS
If you have not completed all Visual Arts requirements for Semester 1 you must do so as soon as possible and make sure you hand them in to Mrs Menhennet
Students who have completed ALL Visual Arts requirements for SEMESTER 1 read through and choose a task from the VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASKS LIST
revise procedure for 5 Minutes of Focus
revise procedure for Cooperative Clean Up
I have read through Art Room Expectations
I have read through the list of Visual Arts requirements for Semester 1 2020
I have checked that I have completed ALL Visual Arts requirements for Semester 1
I complete any unfinished requirements for Semester 1 and hand them in
I select a task from the VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASK LIST
I follow the procedure for 5 minutes of focus when it is called
I pack up immediately when the timer for the end of the session goes off
i follow the procedure for Cooperative Clean Up
VISUAL ARTS REQUIREMENTS TO BE COMPLETED FOR SEMESTER 1 REPORTS 2020
– Your sunflowers artworks (rough draft 4 sunflowers, rough draft vase of sunflowers, final sunflowers artwork) were due on the 24th May 2020! Draw an artwork reflecting your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCE within a hexagon shape. This artwork was due on the 6th June 2020. When they are complete you can finish your Keith Haring style large painted body shape from Term 1. Remember you were working cooperatively with a partner on this task. When your painted body shape is complete, including the outline in a contrasting colour, help your partner to complete their painted body shape. Then you can choose a task from the VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASK LIST.
– Your celestial bodies artworks (rough draft 4 celestial bodies, rough draft of two ideas for final artwork, final celestial bodies artwork were due on the 24th May 2020!
Draw an artwork reflecting your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCE within a hexagon shape. This artwork was due on the 6th June 2020.
When they are complete you can choose a task from the VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASK LIST.
– Your Famous Artwork Recreation was due on the 11th May 2020!
Draw an artwork reflecting your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCE within a hexagon shape. This artwork was due on the 6th June 2020.
When they are complete and handed in you can choose a task from the VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASK LIST.
You must submit all your artworks or your report for Semester 1 will state NEEDS ATTENTION in the Visual Arts section.
VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASK LIST
Use the next double page in your art journal for your drawing or see Mrs Menhennet if you need paper bigger than that!
Draw with the GEAR STENCILS
Draw with the LARGE SPIROGRAPH COMPONENTS on a large piece of brown kraft paper.
Draw with the SMALL SPIROGRAPH COMPONENTS.
Learn how to draw 3D SHAPES.
Another video about drawing 3D SHAPES.
Learn how to draw 3D SHAPES WITH SHADING and SHADOWS.
Grade 3 – Your sunflowers artworks (rough draft 4 sunflowers, rough draft vase of sunflowers, final sunflowers artwork) were due on the 24th May 2020!
Grade 4 – Your celestial bodies artworks rough draft 4 celestial bodies, rough draft of two ideas for final artwork, final celestial bodies artwork were due on the 24th May 2020!
Grade 5/6/E – Your Famous Artwork Recreation was due on the 11th May 2020!
You must submit all your artworks or your report for Semester 1 will state NEEDS ATTENTION in the Visual Arts section.
Hello to all my Grade 3/4/5/6/E students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 8 of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT!
The WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT
is an art project that started in Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 2006 when some secondary school Visual Arts teachers got together over a coffee.
Those teachers wanted to come up with an idea that all their students could work on together and thus the Hexagon Project was born.
Now thousands of students from all over the world participate in this annual project.
Cambridge Primary School participates in the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT every second year and has done since 2012.
The WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT reflects on how we are all INTERDEPENDENT.
Most students easily understand the meaning of independence.
You start off as a baby not being able to do much and eventually learn to feed yourself and dress yourself as you learn and grow.
Once you start school you are developing as a child and a student and increasingly doing all sorts of things by yourself.
Being INTERDEPENDENT is how we all DEPEND ON EACH OTHER in different ways.
We are all –
local citizens (family, Cambridge PS, neighbourhood, Hoppers Crossing)
connected to and INTERDEPENDENT on each other for so many things and in so many ways!
How are you connected to others by your INTERDEPENDENCE???
Here are 2 short videos for you to watch about INTERDEPENDENCE.
It is very clear that we all have a much greater understanding of our INTERDEPENDENCE in 2020 after being locked down at home in isolation for many weeks and having time to think about how much we rely on each other!
The WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT for students from aged 4-18+ uses the shape of a hexagon as a way for students to reflect on their INTERDEPENDENCE in an artwork.
I want you to create an artwork, using whatever materials you like, in the shape of a hexagon, reflecting your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCE.
When your artwork is complete I want you to photograph your hexagonal artwork with your device and send it to me by Saturday 6th June 2020.
I will then mark that you have completed a hexagon shaped artwork onto Compass and this will become part of your Semester 1 report for 2020.
The hexagon template for your artwork is available here. You are encouraged to print this hexagon and trace it to use as a template so all hexagons are the same size.
I will then print up the photos of all your hexagon shaped artworks and display them at Cambridge PS.
If YOU want your artwork to be part of the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT for 2020 you need to upload the photo of your artwork onto ARTSONIA. This is your choice. If you do not want to participate in the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT you do not have to.
ARTSONIA IS READY FOR UPLOADING!
Put your finished hexagon on a flat surface that is a different colour to your hexagon.
Photograph your hexagon with your device holding your ipad flat and steady. Make sure you can see ALL your hexagon on the screen.
Download the Artsonia app OR go to theArtsoniawebsite.
Type in the access code NXRB-HBMR. Press login.
Type your first name in the space provided. Your name will pop up with the first letter of your last name and your 2020 grade like this. Shelley M (Shelley8939) Grade 4
Click on your name and you will be taken to a Welcome page.
Click on add new artwork.
Click on Hexagon Project 2020 for your grade level. Each grade level and Enrichment has it’s own project box .
Click on the select image/video button to locate your photo on your device.
Click upload now.
Click accept.
Give your hexagon a title.
Click submit to teacher.
You can enter an artist statement or press skip.
Your hexagon image will appear and it will say that you have submitted your hexagon to your teacher for review.
The uploading of your hexagonal artwork onto the Artsonia website must be completed by 30th June 2020 to be part of the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT!
connected to and INTERDEPENDENT on each other for so many things and in so many ways!
How are you connected to others by your interdependence???
Here are 2 short videos for you to watch about INTERDEPENDENCE.
It is very clear that we all have a much greater understanding of our INTERDEPENDENCE in 2020 after being locked down at home in isolation for many weeks and having time to think about how much we rely on each other!
The WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT for students from aged 4-18+ uses the shape of a hexagon as a way for students to reflect on their INTERDEPENDENCE in an artwork.
I want you to create an artwork, using whatever materials you like, in the shape of a hexagon, reflecting your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCE.
When your artwork is complete I want you to photograph your hexagonal artwork with your device and send it to me by Saturday 6th June 2020.
I will then mark that you have completed a hexagon shaped artwork onto Compass and this will become part of your Semester 1 report for 2020.
The hexagon template for your artwork is available here. You are encouraged to print this hexagon and trace it to use as a template so all hexagons are the same size.
I will then print up the photos of all your hexagon shaped artworks and display them at Cambridge PS.
If YOU want your artwork to be part of the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT for 2020 you need to upload the photo of your artwork onto Artsonia. This is your choice. If you do not want to participate in the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT you do not have to.
ARTSONIA IS READY FOR UPLOADING!
Put your finished hexagon on a flat surface that is a different colour to your hexagon.
Photograph your hexagon with your device holding your ipad flat and steady. Make sure you can see ALL your hexagon on the screen.
Download the Artsonia app OR go to theArtsoniawebsite.
Type in the access code NXRB-HBMR. Press login.
Type your first name in the space provided. Your name will pop up with the first letter of your last name and your 2020 grade like this. Shelley M (Shelley8939) Grade 4
Click on your name and you will be taken to a Welcome page.
Click on add new artwork.
Click on Hexagon Project 2020 for your grade level. Each grade level and Enrichment has it’s own project box .
Click on the select image/video button to locate your photo on your device.
Click upload now.
Click accept.
Give your hexagon a title.
Click submit to teacher.
You can enter an artist statement or press skip.
Your hexagon image will appear and it will say that you have submitted your hexagon to your teacher for review.
The uploading of your hexagonal artwork onto the Artsonia website must be completed by 30th June 2020 to be part of the WORLDWIDE HEXAGON PROJECT!
Take an online tour at the Louvre, Paris. On this webpage there is even a VR visit of Mona Lisa.
And if you haven’t looked at what the other grade 5 and 6 students have created for their FAMOUS ARTWORK RECREATION yet go here and here and here. You will be amazed!
Hello to all my Enrichment Grade students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.
I can’t believe it is Week 3 of remote learning already!
We are going to be doing a bit of Visual Arts learning around the topic of FAMOUS ARTWORKS!
All grade 5 students at Cambridge Primary School learn about PARODIES of famous artworks. So if you were in Grade 5 last year this first bit is a review of work on Famous Artwork Parodies that you did last year. For everybody else it is new learning about what an art parody is. After that is the work I want you all to do for Visual Arts! All students from Grade 5, Grade 6 and Enrichment will be doing this work.
What is a PARODY?
The easiest way to understand a PARODY is to start with a musical PARODY.
When you take a piece of popular music and change it to make it funny you create a musical PARODY.
Sesame St is full of musical PARODIES.
Try this one.
And one of my favourites, Weird Al Yankovic, has made a career out of writing musical parodies and then creating the videos to go with them. He has been doing this for more than 30 years!
Hey! Wait a minute? What is all this music? Are we doing MUSIC in Visual Arts?
Yes we are!
Now, back to Weird All Yankovic!
And for those who love Star Wars!
So now you understand what a musical parody is. It is easy to figure out what a famous art parody is. It is when you take a piece of Visual Art and recreate it making fun of it.
Here are some Mona Lisa Parodies.
In the past Cambridge Primary School students have created some very funny and interesting Mona Lisa parodies.
In this time of remote learning we are going to do something a little bit different!
I want you to choose a famous artwork and recreate it.
A lot of people locked down at home have been doing this all over the world.
So what I would like you to do this week is spend some time looking at and thinking about famous artworks and deciding on which famous artwork you want to recreate.
So, do I want you to paint or draw something?
Instead you can use yourself or members of your family and dress them up to recreate a famous artwork. a bit like this.
Or you can use a different sort of material to recreate a famous artwork. Like this
So I am going to let you use this week for thinking and researching and figuring out what you are going to do.
It is okay to change your mind during this process.
All good artists change and adapt their ideas as they think about and work on them. This is part of the artistic process and is not a mistake or to be looked on negatively.
So after you have done your researching, thinking and planning it is time to actually do it.
I would like all famous artwork recreations/parodies to be photographed and emailed to me
by Mon 11th May 2020.
I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
If you have any questions you can email me
shelley.menhennet@education.vic.gov.au
If you can’t think of an art work here are some art collections you can look at.
to us all, as we all survived more than 8 weeks of remote learning and teaching at Cambridge Primary School
in Hoppers Crossing, Victoria, Australia.
your IPAD
and HEADPHONES
to each Visual Arts session for the rest of this term!
and ANXIOUS 
about being back at school, all together, after such a long time away. It is totally NORMAL to feel this way.
– Your sunflowers artworks (rough draft 4 sunflowers, rough draft vase of sunflowers, final sunflowers artwork) were due on the 24th May 2020! Draw an artwork reflecting your understanding of INTERDEPENDENCE within a hexagon shape. This artwork was due on the 6th June 2020. When they are complete you can finish your Keith Haring style large painted body shape from Term 1. Remember you were working cooperatively with a partner on this task. When your painted body shape is complete, including the outline in a contrasting colour, help your partner to complete their painted body shape. Then you can choose a task from the VISUAL ARTS CHOICE TASK LIST.
– Your celestial bodies artworks (rough draft 4 celestial bodies, rough draft of two ideas for final artwork, final celestial bodies artwork were due on the 24th May 2020!
– Your Famous Artwork Recreation was due on the 11th May 2020!
on a large piece of brown kraft paper.
