Watercolour Painting

Here are some of the watercolour techniques I needed to think about in order to produce this amazing painting:

Choose a broad brush and use it to wash the paper with water
Switch to a finer brush; wet it and then dab it dry on a paper towel
Select a colour, starting with the palest
Look closely at the colours and shapes you see
Add a bit of detail to show flowers or leaves
Try not to leave any of the paper blank
Dab the last of the water off with the paper towel
Leave it in the sun to dry

Why not come to the classroom and take a closer look at my painting? I would love to know what you think of it.

Sketching at Chateau de Penthes

Yesterday we took our clipboards, some stiff white cartridge paper and a 3B drawing pencil to Chateau de Penthes. We were going to do some sketching.

I decided to draw the view of the trees. Take a look at my sketch.



How do you think it compares with the real thing?

Where in the world? continues.....

"The Lyon football team have played against Caen.....



.....even though the score was the same to each, it isn't bad news for Lyon because they have 72 points and the other ones only have 68. Lyon is in France."

Cave Painting (or drawing on the white chalk with a blackboard)

During our Unit of Inquiry on Materials, we started reading the book, 'Stig of the Dump' by Clive King. Stig is a caveman who lives at the bottom of an old quarry close to Barney's grandmother's house. Barney finds Stig one day when he falls through the roof of Stig's den. They become friends, even though they cannot talk to each other.

Since the quarry is no longer in use, people throw all their rubbish away down there; Stig is good at finding new ways in which to use old things.

On the same day that they cut down an enormous tree (getting warm once in the process) and then use it to start a fire (getting warm for the second time) Stig picks up a piece of charred wood and uses it to draw an amazing hunting scene on the chalk wall of the den.

Then we had a go at using charcoal and chalks to make our own hunting scene. We dusted the paper with charcoal powder and smudged it to give it a greyish background. Then we used charcoal and chalk to make our scene.



"I like yours because it has a very good drawing of people hunting animals," said Matthew D.

Mapping the school

We asked ourselves; how can we show what our school looks like? After taking a walk around the school, we had a go at trying to make a record of everything; from the classrooms to the kitchen, the music room to the French rooms and the library.

Take a look at mine. "I didn't use the whole page. If I did a mistake I could do another one. I didn't do a mistake though. I drew the bit where the babies are first. The second part was the class ones and after it was the corridor and after it was the stairs and the class 2s. I went from one end of the school to the other. I think someone else could use my map."



How does it compare with the real thing?

Gold Star

Invented by Justin Matthew and Naoya

Rules: No ripping
Take turns
Do not look under the blindfold

• Put the cards on the table face up
• Put a blindfold on



• Somebody gives you 2 cards
• You feel them



• Say whether you think they’re different or the same
• If you get it right you get a point
• Who gets the most points is the winner.

What is it like?

A toilet roll
I brought a cardboard toilet roll. It is made from a natural material. It is made from wood.



What is it like?
It is opaque and non-stretchy.

My watch
This is a watch and it has metal, glass and a leather strap. I think the metal at the back is steel because it sticks a bit to a magnet. The metal at the front looks like gold.



What is it like?
It is shiny and breakable.

plastic

This is like everybody and it’s someone that walks with hair behind him. It’s made from plastic bottles and lids and straws.



‘I like the way you made the hair,’ said Matthew.