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Prep Visual Art: Collecting Objects from Nature and Making Stick Characters

Prep Last week students embarked on a treasure hunt! Artists are curious about the world they live in. They find and collect things and sometimes just keep them until they find a use for them. Artists love to play around with the materials they find. Finding and collecting objects to use in an artwork is […]

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Week 5: Prep – Setting the scene for our characters

These drawings were of characters and creatures, both real and imagined. In week 5, students created a background or setting for the little sculptures that they will make when we are back at school. When designing these backgrounds, they thought about the creatures or characters they designed at school. Students wondered where these characters lived

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Discovering the language of the drum.

Finding your own contemplative space to explore creative ideas is a positive aspect to online learning at home. From the individual student responses to the Seesaw Drumming Activities I could see what an inspiring impact the drumming program has had. Many students demonstrated their understanding of Kofi’s drumming patterns, while others chose to discover their

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Buon appetito!

Since returning onsite the students in years prep-2 have been enjoying sharing stories about ‘piatti speciali’ (special dishes) made by family members. Inspired by the much loved Italian children’s song, Le tagliatelle di nonna Pina, we have talked about our favourite foods made with love by members of our famiglia. Cooking for family and friends

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The body: inspired by the collage cut-out drawings of Henri Matisse

Last week, both on-line and when we returned to school, we furthered our exploration into our understanding of the body through the paper cut out drawings of Henri Matisse! Last week we drew the body inspired by Picasso and his continuous line drawings. This week we were inspired by the paper cut out collages of

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