Collaborative Art

Pasifika Art

In term two, for our Visual Art unit, we worked on a Pasifika pattern collaborative artwork.  Each of the classes in our learning hub created one that used specific colours that show the colours of that learning space.  

We chose green and purple because our two spaces have a splash of those colours on our walls.

We used pastels and had a section of the artwork to colour.

Here is our work in Whakamanawa:

Inquiry and Arts Reflections

Art: I thought our Tapa Art unit was interesting because…

If I rate myself out of 10 for how well I participated in our art unit, I would give myself a…

In our Tapa Art unit, I learned:

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Inquiry: I thought our Social Science unit about inventions throughout time was interesting because…

If I rate myself out of 10 for how well I participated in our Inquiry unit, I would give myself a…

In our innovations unit, I learned:

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Visual Arts Unit

Designing Our Own Tapa

This term, our visual arts focus was on Pasifika designs and the process of making tapa or siapo.  Click on the link to our hub Arts page to see what we learned.  Takitini Arts Page

We used a template to develop our designs before working with brown paper, black marker and dye.  To get inspiration and ideas, we used the resources and displays in our learning space, out Visual Arts unit and the internet.

When we had an idea of what we would do, we started drafting designs on brown paper.  We then went over the pencil lines changing the thickness to give different effects.  Once we were happy with our designs, we started using yellow and brown dye to colour.   We then scrunched up our paper to create a textured cloth look.  

Once we had done one design each, we put them together to create a mat.  This is now proudly displayed in our learning space.

Our final piece of art displayed in our class.

Our next step: We have created more than one piece each so that we had more opportunities to develop and explore ideas.  Our next step is to mount these individually and display so we can have an artwork that we can take home.

Te Whare Tapa Whā

Lockdown Learning

Today we learned about Te Whare Tapa Whā and how this relates to the recent lockdown.  We worked on creating our own reflections and as a class, contributed to this Google Drawing to share what we had and have been doing collectively.

Here are some of our ideas:

Google Meet Read

Mr Wilkinson Hits the Big Screen

When the What now team were visiting our school, Mr Wilkinson, our principal, said he would read a book and eat chocolate with the children who attended.  This week, he has been with family in the North Island so we were able to gather as a hub and put him up on our big screen.

He shared two books with all of Takitini which had us all engrossed and laughing at Gary.

Here are a few pictures of it:

Our Weekly Value

Being Conscious of the World Around Us

This week our value is Being Conscious of the World Around Us.  This means showing awareness and empathy for what might be going on for other people and changing the way we act to be supportive of this.  

In Whakamanawa, we created a Wrinkled Heart Google Drawing to list the things that are said or done to us that make us feel down and blue.  We then wrote things that make us feel positive and fill our hearts with good feelings.

Our next step is to actually change our actions and apply these things.

The Learning Pit

Our Value This Week

This week our value is Learn From Mistakes. We created a pit to show what makes us feel like we are in the learning pit and what helps us to get out of the pit.  Here is the start of one we did together.  Individual students have created and posted their own.

My next step is to feel ok when I make mistakes or learning is hard.