Mixed Media Art

This term we are going to be creating some mixed media art. We watched this clip to see one way of how it is done.

We talked about layering, and took a look at some of the things we could use, before we started our planning.



Music Appreciation - Flight of the Bumblebee

We are learning to appreciate different types of music.

Cheers to 50 years! - It's in the Bag!

On Thursday we watched part of an episode of

It's in the Bag!

It's in the Bag is a NZ TV programme made in the 1960s (only 50 years ago!)

We had to look for some changes.

What type of show is it?
Jess - "It's a gameshow"

What is a modern-dag programme that is similar?
Elise - "Ellen"
Jack - "Deal or no Deal"
Callum - "Lotto"

What do you notice about the prizes?
Jess - "They were for everyday use"
Darren - "They were big (size)"
Makayla - "They looked new and shiney"
Tom N - "They were modern day. Like the automatic washing machine."

Do you think the prizes are expensive?
Yes

Do you think they though the prizes were expensive?
Yes

What do you notice about thier clothes?
Elise - "They are smart, fancy and sensible"
Ben - "They are old fashioned"
Darren - "There is more styling these days. Their clothes were only black and grey."
Caitlin - "I noticed the lady's baggy silver top under her dress"

What is different about how TV programmes recieve mail now?
Tom S - "They got thier mail by letter"
Class - Mail now comes by "email, call, text, letter, twitter and facebook

What else did you find interesting?
Jess - "The prizes were popular"
Tatiana - "The prizes were expensive"
Darren - "There was suspense of what people won and the big bag of letters"

We are going to be looking at technology change. We thought of some questions we'd like to answer.

• How do we think to change it?
• How did it change?
• Why didn't we leave it the way it was?
• Why change it?
• Who changed it?

ANZAC Day

ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. Anzac Day is a day for us to remember the soldiers who went to fight in World War One. We especially remember the soldiers who died on April 25 1915 during the fighting on the beaches at Gallipolli, in Turkey.

We celebrate Anzac Day with some traditions and symbols.
Poppies - The red, or Flanders poppy was one of the first flowers to grow and bloom in the mud 'Flanders Field'
Flander Field - A famous war poem written about what happened in the Flanders region of Belgium
The Last Post - Millitary bugle call
Anzac Biscuits - A long-life biscuit that could be sent to soldiers

We are learning to use apostrophes to shorten words.

Words that are shortened are called contractions.

Some examples are: do not = don't, it is = it's and they are = they're.

An apostrophe shows where a letter or letters are missing.

Exciting sharing will be happening this term....

Practice on Prezi