In Art, we have been learning how to draw mandalas. A mandala is a circular patternĀ learn which grows from a central point. The word mandala comes from the old Indian language of Sanskrit. Loosely translated it means ‘circle’. It is pronounced ‘mandle’.
To learn how to draw mandalas, we watched several on-line tutorial videos. These gave us some great ideas. After that we had one or two practice attempts. With each one, we improved our skills.
Here, you can see several of the mandalas from our class. We have examples from Ben M, Courtney, Dylan, Grace, Katie, Lianna and Madison.
Please let us know in the comments if you like them.
Today our school were lucky enough to have a visit from Ross MacKenzie, the winner of the Blue Peter Best Story Award 2016, with his book The Nowhere Emporium, which Mrs McCulloch is reading to us in class at present. Ross told us about the exciting year has had since his last visit to our school. He has won many awards!
He also told us about his new book, Shadowsmith. He read two chapters to us. It sounds very scary and exciting!
Later, many of us got the chance to buy Shadowsmith, and Ross signed our copies personally! It was very exciting! We cannot wait to start reading it!