Kokako Pupil Power!: Term Four is well underway!

Oh boy! Week Four already and we, again, have been so action-packed that this is the first chance Mrs C has had to update the blog!

Shaz was one of our VIPs.

So was Josh L - the other two just like to get into any photo they can!

Our new inquiry is arts-based: "How do artists inspire me?" - so we began the term by working with clay, learning to attach pieces of clay to a base - we made two batches of pinch-pot creatures which are currently drying out in the cupboards and we look forward to painting them next week.

While 21 of us were visiting our new college for 2013 (Menzies) the seven of us left behind were able to have a go at making free-standing clay totem pole pieces for which we created lizards/tuatara to attach to the outside. These are drying out at the moment and we will be interested to see if we did do our attaching correctly!

Our strand maths has a geometry (position) foucs so we have been working with compass directions - last week we created our own fantasy island maps - some were fun places to visit and some were quite dangerous!

Our writing has been focussed on descriptions - we began the term by writing about a classmate, then we wrote job descriptions for new friends, and currently we are working on pieces to accompany a painting titled After the Hurricane by Winslow Homer (1899) - fitting with the recent current event of Hurricane Sandy.

Our stories are really fantastic so far, so keep an eye out for them to pop up in our personal blogs.

Our art moved from clay to portraits - we studied the work of Pablo Picasso and created our own self-portraits using digital photos and pastels. These look AMAZING!

Now we are looking at the work of pop artist Kieth Haring and we will use this as inspiration for our fundraising calendar pictures.

This week is Pet Day, so we also created some painted and collaged pictures, using sheep photos as our inspiration.