My Story My Culture

As part of My Story My Culture, we used either pic collage or comic life to inform others about the culture we belong to. We took a photo of ourselves, wrote a greeting in that language, found photos of famous landmarks, traditional food, a dance, the flag, a map and 10 facts about that culture.
Here are some examples.

Surprised faces

This artwork is based on the artwork “The Scream” by Edvard Munch.

He created four versions in various media, mainly pastel and paint. THEY HAVE BEEN A TARGET OF THEFT MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS.

We used crayon and pastel to create our faces with a surprised look aND BLEW DYE THROUGH A STRAW FOR OUR HAIR.

Textured Hearts

Our school motto is "To Love, To Learn, To Serve." This term we focus on To Love. We made a Y chart to think about what To Love looks like, sounds like, feels like. We then made textured hearts using crumpled hand towels, paint and pastel.

Self Portraits

Here are some examples of our self portraits. They are based on the style of an Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920). He used to exaggerate certain features. He would paint people with long necks, oval faces, long noses and ghosty eyes. We used chalk pastels to create our self portraits.

Photo Art

As an art activity, we took a photo of ourselves and uploaded it to comic life. We chose a layout, used a filter to make our photo more interesting then placed a photo in different positions in each box.

Cultural Dress-up

As a Fun activity, we took our photo and imported an image from the web that depicted the country/ culture we represented.

Cultural Concert

As part of our Immersion activities, Karaka Whanau were responsible for organising our Cultural
dress-up day and concert. We had some volunteers from our children and families to share their cultural items with us. There were some amazing, beautiful, performances and we are very privileged as a school to have so many different cultures within our community.

My Story My Culture

Our Concept for Term 1 is "My Story My Culture."

We are learning that Culture is kept alive in the traditions, stories and beliefs of a group of people.

Also that the events, stories and teachings of Jesus are examples of how to live our lives.

Our Class

We are the Room 10 class for 2015. We are gorgeous, handsome, talented young people who look forward to being the tuakana of our whanau and our school. We look forward to sharing our work with you this year!

Karaka Whanau

Kia Ora Nau Mai Haere Mai. Welcome to our karaka whanau 2015.
We are starting with 3 classes. Mr Werder is in Room 9 with a Year 3 class, Mrs Wendt is in Room 10 with Year 5/6 and Mrs Webber is in Room 11 with Year 2.
 We look forward to working as a whanau, helping each other and getting together as often as we can for assemblies, buddy reading and fun activities. Of course we want to win the Whanau Shield this year!!!

Challenge Immersion Activities

We had lunch time challenge activities as well as whanau tabloid sports during our first week back at school to introduce the concept of Challenge.
Challenge Immersion Activities on PhotoPeach

Challenge

Our concept for term 4 is Challenge.
We are learning that "Challenges are a part of life and the way they are faced helps to shape people's lives in the future."

Calendar Art

Calendar Art on PhotoPeach
We created our calendar art using water colours and black vivid. We had fun blending colours and used hot and cold colours effectively to create our landscape scenes.

Starry Nights

Our class has been studying Vincent Van Gogh with Mrs Smith. We have learnt about his life, his art and his style of painting. He used bold brushstrokes which showed emotion and movement.
We looked at his famous painting Starry Night and created our own. He was inspired to paint this when he was in hospital and saw the stars at dawn from his window.
Starry Nights on PhotoPeach

Hero Parade

As an Immersion activity, we dressed up as a hero. We then used pic collage to explain who we were and why we chose this character.