Tag: expressive arts

Literacy week

This week was literacy week. We were researching a famous artist, Luiza Vizoli. Luiza was born in Europe. Luiza likes to draw forests, flowers, sunsets, seasons and trees. She uses pastels, paints, and pencils to create her masterpeices. Luiza also uses glass and gems to make her paintings 3D, just like primary 3s 3D pumpkins.

We created our own picture after looking at Luiza’s artwork. We went outside to look at trees and leaves and we discussed their shapes and colours. Then we sketched the trees onto orange paper. After we drew our trees we used oil pastels to add colour, we also added coloured spirals, just like Luiza does in her artwork.

As we are now artists, just like Luiza, we wrote an autobiography to display with our artwork at the art show next week. We included information about what we like and ourselves. We also wrote about what we liked about art. We said what we like to draw and what equippment we like to use. Some of us were able to write about how we completed our trees and the steps we went through. We all enjoyed writing about ourselves and we even published our autobiographies on the laptops.

I hope you all have a very good weekend and are looking forward to Chryston Primaries Art Exhibition.

The Big Dance Pledge 2014

Primary 3 did The Big Dance Pledge today.  We did it in the hall at 1pm and all of the school was there to watch us.

The photographer from one of the local newspapers came in to take some photographs look out for Primary 3 in your local paper soon.  Before we started some of us were excited and some of us started to feel a bit nervous.

Once we started we felt better and everyone was watching us.  Half way through our dance they all started clapping along and once we finished we could tell they loved it because they gave a huge clap and we’re cheering.

Mrs Woodward surprised the school when she said “you are all sitting far too still” and everyone had a go at joining in.  We think that everyone did very well to join in with our dance but some of us felt like we were being bossy because they were copying everything we did.  Some of us thought we were going to laugh because it was so strange.

We are all surprised that we learned it so we’ll and we are feeling proud of ourselves.  Thank you to all the children and teachers who came along and who took part.  We’ll done to everyone!

Building Castles Using Weight

Primary 3 watched a video all about castles in Scotland.  We found out that castles are so strong because the strong and heavy bricks are always on the bottom.

We worked with a partner to design our own castles.  We had to cut out all the different sized bricks. There were four rules that we had to follow.  The most important one was that the heaviest bricks had to be on the bottom and we were not allowed to put a heavy brick on top of a lighter brick.

Our finished designs look really good and they are all different.

Our Easter Chick Artwork

Primary 3 learned how to finger paint and we made Easter chicks.  We finger painted with different colours to make it look like the different colours of the chick.  We also used our hands, we dipped them in yellow paint to make the wings of the chick.  We made the eyes, feet and the beak with orange and white paper.  We cut them out and stuck them on the chick.

Bethany: ‘It was gooey and felt weird when I put my hands in the yellow paint.’

Lianne: ‘It was really gooey, slimey and sticky when we used the glue and paint.’

Angus R: ‘It felt very weird when I put my hands in the paint.’

Our Class Rainforest

We have been learning about all the four different layers of a rainforest.  All four of the layers are the forest floor, the understory, the canopy and the emergent layer. All of the layers are different.

We used the iPads to look on the internet for all of our information and have been learning how to use key words to do internet searches.  We made our very own rainforest in the classroom.  We painted the trees.  We cut out all of the leaves using a stencil and to make the tree trunks we put little lines on them to make them look like wood.

By Primary 3

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