Welcome to our blog where you will read the reflections and thoughts of Neighbourhood 2.
It has been a very positive start to 2022 with plenty of interesting ideas floating around, more than a dash of good humour and a lot of supportive behaviour.
What follows is an insight into our neighbourhood thus far.
Responses to provocations:
Jamie: We did our dream neighbourhood and a drawing that looked like our community.
Marlo: We included wheelchair parking for disabled people.
Jamie: If we didn’t, people in wheelchairs wouldn’t be able to come to the shopping centre.
Alex: We have been doing ‘green screen’ projects. The first was to take a photo of yourself that represents you.
Jack B: The second provocation is about asking people questions about their life and to learn more about them.
Ivy Belle: It’s not just the year 4s now. It’s Year ¾. Most of us won’t know who each other is so we are asking questions to know who each other are.
Annie: This makes us feel like we’re not invisible. Alina said yesterday that sometimes people feel invisible. If someone asks you questions to know you, you feel like you’re not invisible.
Leah: In the studio we;ve been making small figurines about ourselves and adding things on a piece of paper about ourselves.
Joanna: We want to make little figurines of ourselves so we can show us as a community. When our parents come to the expo, they can look at the 5 things we wrote down.
Makaila: It was very hard to make them because there were a lot of cracks. They are extremely hard to make. I got advice from two people: Robert and Ruby. I asked Robert because he’s really good at fixing cracks. I got a brush and I got some water and started painting it on the cracks.
Charlie: I tried to fix some of the cracks but it started breaking so I ripped it off. My head didn’t have any hair coming out of the clay so I just painted it.
Joanna: We all have different ways of making our artwork so everything will be a bit different.
Owen: Everyone tried to make a replica of what looked like them and doing something. I did one of me playing footy. In my inquiry book I drew out all the wire so I knew which way to turn it then I could twist it around to make it into the figure.
Lucinda: I designed mine and then watched a video on how to make the wire skeleton. The skeleton makes it so that you have a base and it makes it a lot less fragile.
Stay tuned for more.
Year 3/4 N2