All about Fish with Grade 1 and 2

The students started the term by making clay fish from pinch pots. These were painted and then they created a 3D home for their fish using paper. I think they turned out really well.

 

 

 

 

We then tried some origami fish that was sent away to our local politicians to support the Protection of The Great Barrier Reef. The fish were a bit hard so we altered the design a bit and used sticky tape but it was a good experience.

 

 

 

 

And finally the students created fish using recycled plastic bottles and finishing them off with paper mache tissue paper and permanent texta details.

Sewing Rainbows with Grades 1 and 2

How good is sewing on hessian?!! It looks amazing and the kids loved it. Believe it or not this took almost the whole term and most students didn't finish but I am very impressed by their persistence how neat they worked. Their first introduction to a running stitch.

 

All about line with Grade 1 and 2

For Term 3 we completely focused on line. Just because I love line and everything you can do with a line. We used as many different mediums as we could and pushed the idea of line and how you can create an artwork using line. They used many different skills and mediums during the term. It was a very productive term.

Drawing lines to represent music

 Cutting lines

Repetitive lines

Woven lines 

Cut line hanging sculptures

3D recycled building constructions

I set the Grade 1 and 2 students a hard task this semester. Most of them rose to the challenge and if they didn't they learnt a lot about construction and persistence!! The challenge was to create a building using only recycled cardboard and tape. The construction could not be bigger than 30cm  and had to have one moving part. They finished off their buildings by adding the gorgeous building paper from ZART.

They absolutely love construction and it was such a joy to see them measuring and trying over and over to get it right. The results were mixed but it was such a big learning curve for them I know they all enjoyed the challenge.