Taonga Time 2012

Every Fridays after morning tea, team five rotates to other classes for taonga time in little groups. Taonga time is one the things we do as a team for school.

Well last Friday the class i went into was music with Mr Jacobson for 2 hours. For music we have to make up beats on garageband. On garageband we add in different instruments making the sounds blend in.

My Mihimihi

Van Gogh Artwork

Vincent Van Gogh artwork.

In room 22 we have been painting and sketching artwork's that Vincent Van Gogh has drew in the past. This time we drew a close up sunflower using his technique. The picture above shows what we did and what the technique looks like. Vincent Van Gogh 's style in painting is little strokes but a normal background painting long strokes.  

Portrait

In class this term we had to make a presentation using the word Portrait. In the presentation we wrote a sentence together with the  word portrait and wrote what the word means .

Immersion Art - Claude Monet

Claude Oscar Monet

Claude Monet an impressionist was born on November 14th in the eighteenth century in Paris. In 1845, 5 years after he was born Claude Monet and his family moved to Le Havre, France, to live with his father.

Inspired by his artwork we got to create our own paintings using  his technique. The technique we had to do was to paint doing dots or little strokes. We Drew anything we liked.

Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van gogh a dutch painter was one of most famous painters, that  had little recognition.He only sold one of  his artwork in his lifetime.

Van Gogh was born on March 30th 1853 in Groot, Zundert, near breda, Nederland (Holland) . At the age of 16 Vincent moved to Hague ( the capital city of the Netherlands) and worked as a employer for his uncle’s art dealer. Later after that his brother Theo became a art dealer too. In 1878 Van Gogh became a preacher in the Southwestern of Belgium.

The photo above is one of Vincent Van Gogh’s painting of him.

My 2012 Goal's

My Goals.

In reading my learning goal is to read and to under stand what the story is about. To achieve this goal I need too read the book really carefully.

In writing my goal is to make my sentences make sense. To achieve this goal I need to think before I write.

In maths my goal it to know my timetables and to know how to add decimals. To achieve my goal I will have to memorize my timetables.

My goal for this year around the school is to use good manners as well as being a good role model.