Farm Inspired Art.

In groups we all wrote about our latest artwork.

 

 

Room 13 have made a farm based piece of art. It includes sheep, hills and trees. We also did a black border, it looked pretty good with our art. The art was based on our topic and camp, then that’s when the art came in. Paige enjoyed making the sheep, Nanoka liked it all and Amber liked doing the apples.

By Paige, Nanoka and Amber.

For our inspiration we came back from camp and did an internet search for farm art. For topic we are doing ‘From Paddock to Plate,’ which is about farming. We found an image that we liked, but we didn’t find out the artist.  We just finished them and they look fantastic. They were actually easy to create because we did them step by step.

By Nick, Bryce and Javarn.

The first part we drew was the hills in pencil. We did this step by step and talked about where each hill could start. Then we added in the outline of the trees. Some parts we didn’t draw in pencil before we painted them, like the clouds.

By Tahlia, Micayela and Jack.

While doing the hills we painted them curved because the hills on our inspiration were curved. We jumped the paint brush up and splodged it down neatly. After the hills we drew the trees (3 were circles and 3 were carrot shaped.)

After that we did the clouds with candle wax. We used it because it made the paper waterproof and when we painted the sky orange the clouds stood out. Some of us had to add some white to make them stand out a bit more. We painted the trees dark green and then used the splodge technique to add some lighter green.
Next we painted the border black and used a careful straight technique (The Mrs Colliss technique).
Next we cut out the sheep and painted then a skin colour and white. We glued these on and drew the faces and legs.
By Nand, Blake and Logan.

We made cute (or ugly) sheep for our art. We for some paper and made a cloud shape. Next we painted the clouds a fleshy colour with white patches and then we stuck them onto our art with PVA glue. Then we painted a tuff of wool where the top of their head would be. Next we used a grey-ish colour for the face. Then we used a barbeque stick to make the tiny eyes. After that we ended up with some fantastic sheep.

By Seth, Kairon and Daniel.

When we do our painting of the border the class was using either the Bryce technique or the Mrs Colliss technique. The Bryce technique is when you go rough and it goes over the line and it is a little bit messy and the paint brush spreads out. Then Mrs Colliss technique is when you are doing it slowly and smoothly and you guide along the line. When you guide along the line you don’t use too much paint, otherwise it will go over the lines. Ashley and Sasha both did the Mrs Colliss technique, Ruby started doing it the Bryce way but changed to the Mrs Colliss way.  

*Bryce was happy to have his method shared, he has now changed to the Mrs Colliss technique ;)

By Ashley, Sasha and Ruby

The first tools we used for our art were a ruler, pencil and eraser to make the border. Then we drew the hills and painted them with red, green and yellow/orange paint. Then we used pencil to draw 3 large circles for the trees. Then we drew 3 medium sized carrots for the other trees. We used candle sticks to draw 5 clouds in our sky and painted over them with yellow paint for the sky. Then we painted the trees green. Next we painted the border black. We got small pieces of paper and used scissors to cut out 3 sheep. We painted them a peach colour. We used PVA glue to stick the sheep onto our art. Then we used a skin colour to do the fluffy head of the sheep and added the face and the ears, we used a kebab stick to paint on the tiny eyes. We then painted 10 apples on our big trees.

By Zoe, Isabelle and Kayla.

These are the steps that we did to create our artwork.

First we did our border and hills in pencil. Next we painted 3 green hills, 3 red and 3 orange hills.
Next we painted the sky and the clouds. The sky was yellow and had a little bit of white mixed in for the clouds.
We drew 3 big circles and 3 pointy trees. We painted these green.
We cut out the cloud shaped sheep and painted these.
Then we put the apples on the apple tree and added the tree trucks.

By Michael, Te Ahu and Anthony.

Poppy Art

Last week we read a picture book based on how New Zealand saved Le Quesnoy (pronounced Ler kay-nwah)-  from the German's. The book was called 'Le Quesnoy - The story of the town New Zealand saved.' We learnt about New Zealander Leslie Averill and his herorics. There is a street named after him in the town of Le Quesnoy.

History article on the event.

The story is based around events that occured at the end WW1. As most peeople know there is a strong connection between WW1 and poppies for most New Zealanders.

We produced a piece of art based on poppies.

The first step was to create clouds on the paper, using rubbed charcoal.
Next we drew grass that was think, long and different lengths and sizes. We used charcoal again to create this.
On some pieces of grass we drew pieces of wheat.
Next we added a long shoot in the middle, and could add 15 smallers ones at the bottom page.
The idea was to make it look like an ant was looking up at the grass and poppies. To make this realistic we had to make sure the grass was angled inwards.
Out came the red paint and we added up to 15 poppies to our art. The poppies looked like figures of 8 or 2 circles, thinking of this made them easier to draw, we also had a picture to help us out.

Finally we sprayed them will fixing spray and mounted them on black paper.

They look spectacular!

Cricket Skills

This afternoon Bavaid came to teach us cricket skills. The main focus was accurate bowling with a straight arm.

We are practising the windmill to keep our arm straight

 

Here's Michael doing a straight arm bowl.

 

This is Justis running while bowling, he is showing us how to do a run up and a follow through run.



This is Tahlia practising bowling with a straight arm.

This is room 13 bowling at the same time.

Camp Caithness 2014

Introduction

In week 3 the year 5 and 6’s of Bledisloe School went to camp at Mrs Harris’ farm. We stayed for 2 nights in tents and had to do all our cooking without electricity.

When we arrived at Mrs Harris’ farm we walked down to the paddock and started setting up the tents, it was really awesome. Later that day we started doing our activities.

After that we went on the thick plastic waterslide. It was fun because you went fast but the worst part was when the soap flicked back into your eyes.
By Michael and Daniel.

Gorge walk

One of the electives was the gorge walk. As we walked down the gorge we have to be careful of the blackberries. Some people used compasses to guide their way down. There were lots of plants, there was even a stream down there but the stream was full of rocks and not much water. It was awesome because we were surrounded by so much nature.

By Logan and Ruby

Tents

First we had to unpack the tents, then we took the tents out of the bags and put the pegs in. We then put the poles and added the fly. We had to tie it down so it didn’t fly away. Every group had to put up their own tent. Some groups managed without adult help. For some groups they needed help because the tent was so big.

By Jack.

Slingshots

One of the activities we did was using slingshots and blow pipes to hit targets. It was heaps of fun!

Cook out

On Wednesday night we might fires. First we had to dig a whole with the spade, and then we got the wood and used paper. We had to light the fire with a match. We then had to start to cook our dinner which was nachos. We had the ingredients ready to cook. After dinner we toasted marshmallows on a stick. There were biscuits to put the marshmallows in to make smores.

By Micayela and Amber.

Trailer rides

All the utes came to pick us up. The reason we were all pilled in was because we were going to the waterslide in the other paddock. Some kids got to go on the back of the trailer, some on the back of the ute and others in the cab. The best place to ride was in the TRAILER because it was really fun and the bumpiness was extreme! The best ride was in Mr Teddy’s ute. For some people the ride was more extreme than the waterslide.

By Nand and Justis.

Waterslide

We were very lucky that we had nice hot days at camp. In the afternoons we found out that we could go on a waterslide which was made form plastic. It was about 50 meters long. A lot of people didn’t make it all the way down. All the adults seemed to make it past to the end onto the grass. Mrs Colliss managed to get a photo of nearly everyone going down. It was awesome fun, for lots of people it was a highlight of camp.

By Nick and Javarn.

Masterchef

On Thursday night we did our own Masterchef challenge. Each group got an amount of ingredients. Some were compulsory, instant noodles, sausages and some kind of tomato sauce. Some or the random ingredients that only some groups got were, garlic, canned beans, powdered mash potato, onion and heaps of other unusual stuff. Some creations were similar to others, there were heaps of stir fry type things. We all used gas cookers; our time limit was 30 minutes. For dessert we made pancakes.

By Ashley and Tahlia.

Eeling

One of the five electives at camp was eeling. We went to a pond were it was said to have lots of eels. Each group (of 2-4 kids with 1 adult) had a small handline.

No one had caught anything when time was up!

We chucked in the hinaki and waited until the next day.

The next day went we pulled it up we had caught a dead, blind eel. We didn’t eat it because it was dead and we weren’t sure how long it had been dead for.

By Seth and Te Ahu.

Camp Concert

On Thursday evening after the Masterchef results were told to us we started the 2014 camp concert. There were lots of different acts, but there could only be 4 winners. Some people sung, some did funny skits and others danced. The winners were lawnmower problem, the ugliest man, vampire bats and bubble-gum. The winning groups got half a block of chocolate to share out between the group. Kayla, Isabelle, Zoe and Amber were in the winning group the ugliest man, along with Zoe’s dad and Mr P.

By Kayla and Isabelle.

Dreamcatchers.

Dreamcatchers were so cool. The star in the middle was the standout, we got to add decorations and add string so they can be hung. My one was gold because stars are gold, I made 2 dream catchers but I still have to put the finishing touches on them but when I do I will never have nightmares again.

By Paige.

Young Farmer.

On Thursday morning everyone went up to the woolshed and did some farming activities. The young farmer competition was one of them. There were 3 stages to the race these were; log run, fill the bucket and hit the nail 3 times, you then had to return the log to the start.  There was a winner from each class competition, Room 11’s was Reon, Room 12’s Nick, Albie from Room 14 and our representative was Kairon. It was a tough competition and Albie won.

By Anthony and Bryce.