World of Wearable Arts

Today we watched Youtube clips of the WOW show in preparation for creating our own wearable art pieces.

We were allowed a full newspaper, 4 sheets of A4 coloured paper, 3 metres of tape, 3 metres of string and 6 straws.

After researching options for an hour, we then had 45 minutes to create our masterpieces before parading them in front of Room 1, our Junior class.  Mr Orr and Mrs Maclean were our judges for the event.

The criteria we were judged on was:
1: The outfit lasting the length of the runway show and judging time.
2: Creativity.
3: The model remaining in character for the entire runway show.
4: The name matching the art piece.

Brain Challenge: Survivor Day 4

This has probably been the hardest of the Brain Challenges so far!

Teams had to read a poem and then use coordinates to identify letters on a map.  Once they had found all of the letters they had to rearrange them to create two words - these words would help them find the treasure on the map!

School Cross Country

Last Tuesday our school held its Cross Country event.  Our class gets right behind this by dressing up and having a blast!

Facial Expressions

Our very last Art piece for term three focussed on facial expressions.  We studied cartoon-like expressions from the internet and then replicated them on four figures.  We were able to choose to colour with pastel or paint or a combination of the two.

Olympics: 400m Mixed Relay Medalists

Day Two of our Room 6 Olympics took place with the 400m Mixed Relay.  Teams had to decide who was going to be carried during each of the relay stages.  The first stage was a piggy-back race and the second stage was a queen seat.

Our winning teams were........

Gold Medal: France

Silver Medal: Ireland

Bronze Medal: Jamaica

Olympics: Best Paper Plane Challenge

Our second event was the Best Paper Plane Challenge hosted by Australia.

Each team had five minutes to make one of the paper plane designs on offer.  The plane that flew over the greatest distance won the challenge.

Gold Medal: Zimbabwe

Silver Medal: Ireland

Bronze Medal: France

Skate Boards

Another art piece we have been working on for a while are our skate boards.  

First we had to cut out a skate board shape from card.  After applying two layers of papier mache to it we then coated the skate board in white paint.  Once it had dried we drew our design on and then painted, collaged or dyed our designs.  

We had to have our initials and date of birth on our skate board but the rest of the design process was entirely up to us.  we have used images, symbols, words and colours that mean something to us.

Once we had completed them, Mrs Young attached some velcro dots to the back so that they can stick to our walls.  Very clever!

Here are the first of our completed skate boards.