Ms Courtney's Class

Welcome back, I hope everyone had a wonderful week last week. Thank you for coming to the classroom on Monday or Tuesday to look at the student's art work from our last unit. Opportunities for the students to share their learning is always valuable. We started our new unit of inquiry this week. We spent a lot of time this week talking about cities, what is needed in an urban environment and what we like and dislike about them. Over the coming weeks students will identify one issue within our urban environment and using the Creative Cycle, come up with a plan make modifications to this. Prior Knowledge Assessment At the beginning of each unit we assess the students to find out what they already know and plan the unit with this information. This week we asked students to write, list, draw, map everything they knew about an urban environment (city). The students were very eager to share and all did a great job sharing their knowledge. Paper City This unit links to the UN...

We have come to the end of our How We Express Ourselves unit. This week the students completed their summative assessment. Please see their individual page for photos and their artist statement. Our next unit is under the theme 'Sharing the Planet'. The central idea is: By developing an awareness of an urban environment, we can understand and modify the way we live within it. Summative Assessment We shared our art work and artist statement with our Grade 5 buddies this morning. After the water festival break you will be invited to come and look at the work. I will send a separate email with details closer to the date.  Elsa's Birthday On Tuesday we celebrated Elsa's 8th Birthday. Happy Birthday Elsa!! Hope you had a wonderful day.  Guest Speaker This Thursday a family friend of Helmi's came to speak to us about the Breakfast Programme Kellogg's runs in schools for children who often are unable to eat breakfast at home. This links to our p...

This week's blog post is brought to you by Jona, Panha, Alethea, Itzia, Helmi, Naomi, Elsa, Eito and Takuto. Book Creator - Alethea and Itzia We have been working with a partner this unit and have been putting all our art work into book creator. This week we painted a banana and took a photo of it. Then we put the photo in the banana in book creator and recorded our artist statement. At the end of the unit we will publish our book creators on the blog. Picmonkey - Elsa, Helmi, Naomi We used Pic Monkey to change pictures and design new images. You can change the picture to show another feeling. We used Pic Monkey for the front cover of our book on Book Creator. Book Review - Eito, Takuto We wrote a book review to tell others the main part of a book and if it is a good book to read. I liked the book The Hotel is haunted and I liked the book The hunters of the great forest. MRISA Volleyball - Jona, Panha This week we watched MRISA volleyball. ISPP won a...

We have two weeks left of this unit. The students are making great progress in their understanding of the central idea. We will begin our summative assessment towards the end of next week.  Image Editing Math We continued with our inquiry into 2D and 3D shapes. We identified shapes with the saying 'What does the SHAPE say'. Students matched the picture of the shape, the name and the definition of the shape as a whole class and then made their own. We created our own 3D shapes by working out how to make our own nets and folding them into 3D shapes. Unit of Inquiry Inspiration boards The students have been very engaged creating their inspiration boards. There are a lot of strong themes coming from the boards and will help the students when creating a piece of art or their summative assessment. Best Friend Writing On Monday the students write a personal narrative of their best friend. They all did a...

In art classes we learned about how artists use the creative cycle to investigate, plan, create, and evaluate.  I used the cycle to make multiple artworks that were inspired by what I saw, imagined, and wondered.  Here is some of my art making process using the creative cycle.