Saturday, June 6, 2015

Trip to the Symphony

The Kowhai Team went to Founders Theatre to see a symphony orchestra.

 

 





The bus trip was a lot of fun.


Back at school, Ms Danils invited her good friends Mr and Mrs Stokes to school.
They are musicians. 
Mrs Stokes plays the clarinet and Mr Stokes plays the cello.

We had a lot of fun having a turn playing the cello


 

 

 

Monarch butterflies

Room 13 has a close relationship with the butterfly garden. Ms Daniels brought some of the caterpillars and chrysalis's inside in term two because it was getting cold and wet. Maybe the caterpillars would have a better chance of turning into butterflies if they were inside the classroom.
Well, they did, and here is some art inspired by the beautiful butterflies.



First we drew a butterfly in pencil
Then we enlarged our sketches and used creative paint to make a raised outline in black.


We cut out our butterflies

...then painted them with dye







Thursday, June 4, 2015

Standing Tall Art Exhibition

The Hamilton East School Art Exhibition was brilliant.
Our own contributions to the exhibition were really high quality.
Here are some images from the exhibition:




Room 11 self portraits
Inspired by Chuck Close

Sunflowers were a popular subject


Tom Foote
Self portrait
Chalf pastel on black paper

Paper mache owls and fantail made by Room 11

Monarch butterflies
Room 13


Sunflowers.


Modigliani inspired self portraits by Room 13