GRADE 1 WEEK 4 TERM 3 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

GRADE 1 WEEK 4 TERM 3

REMOTE LEARNING 2020

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3rd August 2020 – 7th August 2020

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 created ROY 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 draw ROY 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
painting different parts of his body in particular colours
cutting out his mouth and giving him a colourful tongue

In this time of remote learning, 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 draw with oil pastels or pencils 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 a drawing or painting app on your ipad

or cut plain or patterned paper

or use torn, plain or patterned paper

or scrap cardboard

or stuff out of the laundry basket

or use lego

or make Roy G Biv out of rainbow cupcakes

and what about the found object rainbow from 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 object ROY 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 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, of course, tidy up after you have created!!!

I cannot wait to see your ROY G BIV rich task!

So before you get started I think we should sing the ROY G BIV song together. I hope I can hear you!

Have fun,

Mrs Menhennet

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GRADE PREP WEEK 3 TERM 3 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

GRADE PREP WEEK 3

TERM 3 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

(27th July – 31st July)

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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 – monochromatic self 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.

Bye,

Mrs Menhennet

Grade Prep Monochromatic self portraits 2020

GRADE 2 WEEK 3 TERM 3 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

GRADE 2 WEEK 3 TERM 3

REMOTE LEARNING 2020

(27th July – 31st July)

READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!

Hello to all my Grade 2 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 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 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 can play the audio function on the blog post and read along with Mrs Menhennet.

Let’s get started!

Last week I asked you to draw yourself swimming in water.

I hope you kept last week’s 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.

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 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.

Now let’s look at this drawing.

This is a good first try at a drawing of a body swimming in water. I can see that the water is moving the hair around.

What could this artist do to improve their drawing the next time they draw a body swimming in water?

Yes, they could draw the head and the body in PROPORTION. The head in the coloured drawing below is too big for the body, like the swimmer above.

PROPORTION is a fantastic Visual Arts word that means when things in an artwork look the correct size, compared to each other, then they are in proportion.

What else could the artist change in their drawing of the swimming body to make their drawing look more mature?

Yes, the arms and legs are sticking out straight from the body. This body sort of looks like it is floating in the water. If the artist wants to make the body look like it is swimming they will need to put a bend in the knees and the elbows.

The artist above has put a bend in the arms but the drawing would look even better if the legs were bent at the knees as well. I really like how this artist has drawn the head turned to the side in the water.

If you think of the leg and the arm as looking more like a fat capital letter L in the water then they will look more like they are swimming.

This artist has drawn a side view of the swimmer with lots of movement in the long hair in the water. The left arm is curved but not bent. Bent arms and perhaps a bend in just one leg would look better.

This clever artist has drawn the swimmer with their face down in the water before they turn their head to breathe.This drawing makes me feel like I am a seagull flying and looking down at the swimmer in the ocean!

This swimmer has slightly curved legs and arms but bent arms would have looked better. We can’t see all of the swimmer’s face as their head is slightly turned. The swimmer’s hair is moving in the water.

This artist has drawn themselves floating on their back, not swimming.

I can see a straight leg kicking action in the swimmer below. The view of the swimmer’s head is from the side. The curved arms would look better with a pointy elbow in each of them. The short hair is flattened on the head in the water.

So this week I would like you to have another go at drawing yourself swimming in water. Have a look at your drawing from last week and try to think of a couple of things you could do to improve your drawing this week.

You can use colour or just grey lead pencil as today we are still practising. It doesn’t really matter as long as your swimming body is nice and large on your paper.

You don’t need to submit your drawing this week.

You will submit your drawings of your swimming body as evidence of your completion of this unit of work when you submit your Specialists Rich Task.

Have fun,

Mrs Menhennet

GRADE 2 WEEK 2 TERM 3 2020

GRADE 2 WEEK 2 TERM 3 2020

READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!

Press pause on the audio file whenever you need to stop.

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.

GRADE 1 WEEK 2 TERM 3 2020

GRADE 1 WEEK 2 TERM 3 2020

READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!

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
the sun
lots of clouds
lots of rain
an elf called Roy G Biv, if you want
no white paper gaps

Have fun,

Mrs Menhennet

Here are the grade 1 student rainbows!

Reyansh 1G rainbow 2020

Aahil 1G rainbow 2020

Aarushi r 1G ainbow 2020

Reyansh 1G rainbow 2 2020

Bhavreet 1G rainbow 2020

George 1G rain bow 2020

Atmika 1G rainbow scene 2020

Riley 1G rainbow 2020

Dylan 1G rqinbow 2020

Thomas 1G rainbow 2020

Aliya 1G rainbow 2020

Mishca 1G rainbow 2020

Aahil 1G rainbow 2 2020

Enaya 1G rainbow 2020

Zacharry 1G rainbow 2020

Zane 1 F rainbow 2020

Vohan 1F rainbow 2020

Raam 1F rainbow 2020

Saazdeep 1F rainbow 2020

Connor 1F rainbow 2020

Peyton 1 F rainbow 2020

Anjali 1F rainbow 2020

Akhila 1F rainbow 2020

Ashvath 1F rainbow 2020

Hadi 1F rainbow 2020

Logan 1F rainbow 2020

Natalie 1F rainbow 2020

Zain 1F rainbow 2 2020

Aala 1F rainbow 2020

Malakai 1A rasinbow 2020

josh 1D rainbow 2020

Blake 1D rainbow 2020

Josh 1D rainbow 2 2020

Ricky 1D rainbow 2020

Rithul 1D rainbow 2020

Bilal 1D rainbow 2020

Harrison 1D rainbow 2020

Bei Bei 1D rainbow 2020

Jon 1D rainbow 2020

Ruvee 1D rainbow 2020

Navitha 1D rainbow 2020

Lewis 1D rainbow 2020

Kiara 1D rainbow 2020

Aggam 1E rainbow 2020

Ebony 1E rainbow 2020

Aria 1E rainbow 2020

Sam 1E rainbow 2020

Liam 1E rainbow 2020

Oscar 1E rainbow 2020

Flynn 1E rainbow 2020

Aydin 1E rainbow 2020

Austin 1E rainbow 2020

Mason 1E rainbow 2020

GRADE PREP WEEK 2 TERM 3 2020

READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET!

GRADE PREP WEEK 2 TERM 3 2020

Hello to all my Grade PREP students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.

This is week 2 of Term 3 2020 and all my Prep students are at home!

This is not the way I usually work with Prep 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 have probably seen me at school. You might even have met me when I have been on Yard Duty or I have visited your classroom.

Yes, it’s me – Mrs Menhennet! Most Cambridge Primary School students that know me, recognise me with my multicoloured hair!!!

Cambridge Primary School Prep 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 self portraits !

What is a self portrait?

A portrait is a picture of a person.

A SELF portrait is a picture of ??????????

Yes, that’s right – a self portrait is a picture of yourself!

Okay, we are going to be drawing a 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.

Oh, okay, okay, you already knew that! I’m sorry I forgot how clever Cambridge Primary School Prep students are!

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PART 2 READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET

Oh, that was a fun story about all sorts of faces.

Now I would like you to get your small or big mirror

and have a very good look at your face!

Can you see your beautiful eyes?

What colour are they?

Can you see your eyelashes?

Are they light or dark?

Are they short or long?

Are they curly or straight?

Can you see your eyebrows?

Are your eyebrows neat and tidy or crazy and all over the place?

Eyebrows are great for adding expression to your face.

What do your eyebrows do when you make an angry face?

What happens to your eyebrows when you make a surprised face?

Noses come in all shapes and sizes. It’s amazing how different they can be.

Mouths can also be very different.

Have you got all of your teeth?

Or are some of your teeth missing?

Now it’s time for you to draw your self portrait. I want you to draw a picture of you!

Have fun and have a positive attitude about your drawing. We are just practising!

This video made by the brilliant Mrs Hahn from Mini Matisse.blogspot.com will show you what to do.

READ ALONG WITH MRS MENHENNET PART 3

I hope you had fun drawing your self portrait.

You don’t have to submit your drawing from this week.

Bye,

Mrs Menhennet

Here are the Prep 2020 self portraits.

GRADE 3/4/5/6/E WEEK 9 AND 10 TERM 2 2020

GRADE 3/4/5/6/E WEEK 9 AND 10 TERM 2 2020

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 STRESSED and ANXIOUS about 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.

Learn how to draw BLOCK LETTERS.
Learn how to draw all sorts of things using how to draw sheets from Art For Kids Hub. Use the how to draw sheets OR https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub
Learn how to draw SIMPLE ANIME characters. Here are 3 video links.
Learn how to draw graffiti letters.

Learn how to draw BUBBLE LETTERING.

Learn how to draw a train with one point perspective.

Don’t forget to clean up cooperatively when you are given the signal!

Have fun!

Mrs Menhennet

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GRADE 3/4/5/6/E WEEK 8 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

GRADE 3/4/5/6/E WEEK 8 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

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)
regional citizens (Werribee, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
global citizens

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 the Artsonia website.
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!

Have fun!

Mrs Menhennet

2020 Hexagons are here!

Inaaya E hex

Emme 6D hex

Zunaira 6C hex

Nida 3E hex

Eden 3C Hex

Chase 3C hex

Liam

Ishmay 3C hex

Aditi 5F hex

Yevin 4E hex

Chelsea 3C hex

Jenessa 3B hex

Jack 4E hex

Caleb 5E hex

Tanisha 4C hex

Rayyan 5D hex

Anna 4D hex

Shilpa 3C hex

Charli 4D hex

Jowan 4C hex

Kelly 4D hex

Luke 4B hex

Aydin 4D hex

Cooper 3E hex

Swathi 4F hex

Dylan 3F hex

Wyatt 3B hex

Amelia $E hex

Ezekia 5A hex

Abby 3A hex

Joseph 3A hex

Stephanie 6C hex

Brandon 6B hex

Jimmy 6D hex

Danuli 3F hex

Krishna 6C hex

Sithika 6B hex

Reyansh 4F hex

Ariella 3a hex

Daniel 5A hex

Mahli 3A hex

Kareem 6E hex

Rhianna 6C hex

Areeb E hex

Amitoj 4a hex

Ben 4A hex

Cassidy 5B hex

Charlie 6A hex

Ebeneezer 4A hex

Ethan 5E hex

Gururaj 3C hex

Helena 5D hex

Karnik 3C hex

Mya 5C hex

Sanvi n3C hex

Tayte 3C hex

Zaina 5A hex

Scarlett 3D hex

Yaksh 4C hex

Charlotte 3C hex

Kahna 5D hex

Tienna 3B hex

Chalice 3A hex

Tyler 3A hex

Alisha 5F hex

Leah 5F hex

Yashas 4C hex

Ali 4D hex

Harry 6A hex

japreet 4D hex

Lenny 4C hex

Noor 4D hex

Ramsha 4D hex

Zaryab 4D hex

Aarav 3A hex

Aanya 3A hex

jasmin 3A hex

Aayan 3A hex

Cory 5B hex

Sasha 6E hex

Eeshan 4B hex

Raj E hex

Lenita 5C hex

Phong E hex

Yu Ning hex

Nina 3D hex

Syakir E hex

Anik hex

Xander E hex b

Tanishi 3E

Senaya E hex

Sarah 3D hex

Ruby 6B hex

Melisa E hex

Martina 4B hex

Maanya E hex

Luna 6E hex

krish 3D hex

Jayani 6A hex

Jasmin 3F hex

Jasmin 3F hex

Hemish 5F hex

Fetayel 3A hex

Dhairya E hex

Cooper B 3E hex

Bhrij 3E hex

Aakashi 4F hex

Sian 5E hex

Victor 3A hex

Sienna 3C hex

Rsanda 6E hex

Muhammad 4E hex

Luka hex

Liam 4C Hex

Jaivant 3D hex

Hasini 5F hex

Eliza 4 Hex

Charlee 6A hex

jemma 4B hex

Claire 4F.hex

Jiya 4B hex

caleb 5E hex

Joseph 3A hex

Zack 5C hex

Ben 3E hex

Yethmini 5E hex

Rayaan 4C hex

Jason 3D hex

Thraya 4F hex

Nate 6A hex

Tana 4F hex

Advika 4E hex

Simra 4A hex

Jimmy 6D hex 2

Ryan 5B hex

Anirudh 3B hex

Ashvin 4E hex

Advika 4E hex

Sia 5C hex

Taimoor 4B hex

Ramsha 4D hex

Erika 3A hex

Khiem 6C hex

Chanuka 3E hex

Devman 3E hex

noah 3E hex

Tylah 3E hex

Jenna 3E hex

Bhavana 6ZB hex

Gurnoor 6C hex

Terrence 6C hex

Kieran 6C hex

Jsmes 6D hex

Angela 6D hex

Fudail 6D hex

Shreyan 6D hex

Rachel 5B hex

Tasyla 6D hex

ZNabiha 6D hex

Aliya 6D hex

Dave 6D hex

Ryan 6D hex

Senuth 6D hex.jp[eg

Lucy S 3E hex

Rayan E hex

Mahesha E hex

Aiden E hex

Andrei E hex

Emily E hex

Omio 3E hex

Aishmeen 6E hex

Ayaan 5A hex jpeg

Neil 4A hex

Emily E hex

Shreyan 4C hex

Mikayla 5A hex

Holly 5A hex

Natalie 4C hex

Kethan 5D hex

Isaac 5F hex

Hemish 5F hex

Neha 5F hex

Alex 5F hex

Theo 5F hex

Yasser 5E hex

Emma 5F hex

Kim 5F hex

Dani 4A hex

Alex 4A hex

Sidrah 6A hex

Ayub 6A hex

Ridhi 4A hex

Hannah Rose 5A hex

Jarosha 6E hex

Izhar 6E hex

Zephyr 6A hex

Jarosha 6E hex 2

Eugene 6A hex

Adish 6E hex

Jordan 5B hex

Harshana 6A hex

Joshua 6E hex

Arabhi 5D hex

Milla 5D hex

Breanna 4C hex

Marshall 5D hex

Isabel 4C hex

Arabhi 5D hex

Victoria 6C hex

Simrat 5C hex

Niya 4C hex. jpeg

Lisa 5C hex

Ayana 6C hex

Sanjana 5C hex

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GRADE 6 WEEK 7 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

GRADE 6 WEEK 7 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

Your Famous Artwork recreation is OVERDUE!

It was due on Monday 11th May 2020!

You must submit your artwork or your report for Semester 1 will state NEEDS ATTENTION in the Visual Arts section.

Hello to all my Grade 6 students from Cambridge Primary School and whoever else might be reading this post.

I can’t believe it is Week 7 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)
regional citizens (Werribee, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
global citizens

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 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. If you are at school you can come and collect a printed hexagon from me.

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 the Artsonia website.
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!

Have fun!

Mrs Menhennet

ENRICHMENT GRADE WEEK 7 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

ENRICHMENT GRADE WEEK 7 REMOTE LEARNING 2020

Your Famous Artwork recreation is OVERDUE!

It was due on Monday 11th May 2020!

You must submit your artwork or your report for Semester 1 will state NEEDS ATTENTION in the Visual Arts section.

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 7 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)
regional citizens (Werribee, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
global citizens

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 the Artsonia website.
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!

Have fun!

Mrs Menhennet