by Celine ROWLANDS | Feb 7, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
This week we explored some cultural art. Ms Liezel showed us some art from South Africa. It was Animals made with wire and beads, the children practiced their fine motor skills threading the beads onto the wire, then they enjoyed twisting the wire into interesting...
by Celine ROWLANDS | Jan 31, 2019 | ECC, Front Page, The Grades
This week our students all contributed towards the ECC Art Exhibition. Their combined work filled the MPA to make a festival of drawings, paintings and sculptures. The students had studied some well known artists like Kandinsky and Eric Carl the illustrator. The...
by Celine ROWLANDS | Jan 24, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
This week for Art we wanted to explore self portraits. This would encourage the students to look at their own facial features and name them. We then explored the position of our features using words such as on top, at the side and above and below. The students then...
by Celine ROWLANDS | Jan 13, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
We decided to take the students outside to paint with water. The children were exited about painting on the floor. They then decided to mix the water with chalk to create some interesting art.
by Celine ROWLANDS | Jan 10, 2019 | ECC, The Grades
This week we explored painting and music. The students listened to different types of music and were able to interpret what they could hear into something they could see. For sculpting Ms Lauma gave a demonstration to the students about how they could manipulate and...