Classroom Art
Here is a quick snapshot of some of the art activities students have been involved in across our school. Enjoy 🙂
Mrs Booth
Jul
31
Aug
18
3C Claymation
3C have been working hard on their claymation movies that are being made using the iPad. It is a very time consuming process but in the meantime, as you continue with your projects, be inspired by this video of ‘Gulp’ the world’s largest stop motion animation that was shot using 3 mobile phones. The second video that runs for 5 minutes is amazing as it shows you how the film was made. Maybe this is a project for 3C down at the harbour? Here is a hyper link to the wonderful Wallace & Gromit website which is probably the most well known clay animation series.
Gulp. The world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.
Gulp. The making of. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.
Mrs Booth
May
5
Picasso Cow Dairy Competition
Coffs Harbour Public School has their work cut out for them as they embark on a six week learning project linked to the dairy industry called Picasso Cows. The students have a large cow and through the artist Pablo Picasso will use his unique creative style to create a cow that reflects their learning.
Who is Pablo Picasso? He was an amazing Spanish artist, born in 1881, who loved to draw, print, sculpt and paint and he had many unique styles that have made him very famous. Some of his works I love but some of them I don’t, and Pablo was like that, he never created anything that looked simple 🙂
Have fun and I am sure I will add my creative touch somewhere under a hoof!
Mrs Booth
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May
3
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Mrs Booth was at Southern Cross University in the library where she noticed a beautiful dress with origami cranes sewn on. It was created by another student, named Brianna, for her Integrated Technology Unit. Mrs Booth was amazed by the work that had gone into constructing the dress and also moved by the story that inspired it – Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
This is a true story of a girl, Sadako Sasaki, who lived in Hiroshima, Japan, at the time of the atomic bombing by the United States. She developed leukemia from the radiation and spent her time in a nursing home creating origami (folded paper) cranes in hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would then be granted a wish. Her wish was simply to live. However, she managed to fold only 644 cranes before she became too weak to fold any more, and died shortly after. Her friends and family helped finish her dream by folding the rest of the cranes, which were buried with Sadako. They also built a statue of Sadako holding a giant golden origami crane in Hiroshima Peace Park.
Now every year on Obon Day, which is a holiday in Japan to remember the departed spirits of one’s ancestors, thousands of people leave paper cranes near the statue. On the statue is a plaque: “This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace on Earth.”
The book has been translated to many languages and published in many places, to be used for peace education programs in primary schools. Sadako’s story was also dramatised at the opening ceremony of the Goodwill Games 1990 in Seattle wherein Seattle schoolchildren, working from the 644 cranes sent by Japanese schoolchildren, completed the unfinished 356 cranes for Sadako, and sent them aloft into the skies in honour of Sadako and world peace.
sadako from Mehreen Bazm on Vimeo.
Apr
6
End of term fun!
Coffs Harbour Primary School is home to a very diverse community of staff, students and their families. Everyone brings with them different beliefs and customs and the school prides itself on creating an environment that is inclusive for all our community.
This week students and staff have been extremely busy with science, Easter and holiday craft activities. The main theme of all of this was eggs! In four days Mrs Booth saw fresh, boiled, chocolate, paper and ceramic eggs. Eggs, eggs and more eggs; even eggsperiments 🙂
Many students from Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 enjoyed making holiday hats and masks and others created Easter bonnets. Everyone was extremely busy. The highlight for many children and their families was the Easter hat parade and this was performed in our beautiful school hall.
Science was also a huge theme this week with Stage 2 and 3 students designing unique contraptions to protect a fresh egg from damage when launched off the Stage 3 balcony. The height was approximately 4 meters and sadly a number of the eggs were not wearing seatbelts and nearly landed in some of the audience members laps! Garang had designed a very effective parachute that slowed his eggs descent and it gently floated to the ground. Another student had a commercially made egg balloon but alas, the egg was doomed and did not survive the drop 🙁 To keep with fair testing in a scientific investigation Miss Callinan launched all the final eggs off the balcony and everyone discovered what a good throwing arm she has!
Everyone loved this activity and, with the weather sunny and clear and only a mild breeze, the conditions were perfect.
Holiday Masks, Hats and Easter Bonnets on PhotoPeach
Grace explains why her egg survived from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.
Garang’s Egg from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.
Stage 2 Eggsperiments from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.
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Mar
22
10 Minutes Spare
Mrs Booth had 10 minutes spare this afternoon and went for a walk around the school to see some of the finished Harmony Day art works.
Harmony Day Art and other things on PhotoPeach
Mar
16
Heptagons, Sunflowers, Crocodiles and Captain Flint!
As I was leaving last Thursday I couldn’t help noticing the fantastic artwork class 6F had been working on. Wow, well done Mrs Firkin’s!
I also was reading their work on crocodiles and how some countries farm them for their hide. Australia’s two crocodile species are protected in the wild but their habitat is decreasing as humans move in on their territory and introduced animals such as feral pigs take their eggs. Go to this link for more information: Crocodiles
Class 5M had been looking at shapes and what a Heptagon was. Do you know? How many sides does it have? What about a Nonagon?
A rainy day inside looking at triangles and other shapes on PhotoPeach
Mrs Booth
PS: Did you see my dog Captain Flint?
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Feb
22
Graffiti – Is this art?
I am looking forward to April and Maia’s report on graffiti but wanted to post some photos that I took just up the road from the school. Many people think that graffiti art is a form of vandalism. Here are the Australian Oxford Dictionary definitions for:
Art: A human creative skill concerned with the production of imaginative designs, sounds or ideas.
Graffiti: A piece of writing or drawing scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a surface.
Vandalism: Wilful or malicious destruction or damage to works of art or other property.
Do you think this is art or vandalism?
Do you like this type of graffiti?
If you live in Coffs Harbour do you know where these photos were taken?
Do you know Ash Johnston or have you heard of him?
What does he do?
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Feb
16
Virtual Art – Exploring in Virtual Worlds – Blog Commenting 5M and 6M
5M Virtual World Art, Exploration and Blog Commenting on PhotoPeach
This quick video shows some great problem solving and sharing of ideas and knowledge.
Problem solving and collaborative learning from Coffs Harbour PS on Vimeo.