Thursday, June 25, 2009

Planting trees for Matariki

On June 12th Bailey Road School celebrated Matariki (Maori New Year) by planting native trees in our newly developing Nature Trail.  Three children were selected from each class to plant trees for each class. 




















Above: These three got down and dirty to plant the trees.

Below: Teamwork to get the hole dug to plant the tree - Steven and Jamaine

Planting trees for Matariki


The whole class with the trees that we planted

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Getting Arty - Young Picassos!

Room 20 have been learning the painting techniques of:
Dragging
Stippling
Hard Edge
Tonal Modelling
Splatter
and Carving
Here is our artwork which shows how we were practising our techniques in an abstract way:






















































In the posts below you can see us hard at work using the techniques we've learnt to paint a scene from the story "The Grumpy Clock Tower" by Joyce Rodney - in School Journal Part 1, Number 5, 2002.

Getting Arty!

"Parakaraka" hard at work on their paintings.

Getting Arty!

"Kikorangi" busy painting, with "Kakariki" in the background.

Getting Arty!

"Kowhai" getting on with it.

Getting Arty!


"Whero" hard at work on their paintings