TERM 2

Its been awhile since we've all been onto our classroom blog. Time to get back into Room 12. 

We are half way through term 2 already...before we know it it'll be the holidays again!! The year is going far to quick!

You guys have been working SO hard this year... some of us are into our second reading work book already (some of the other classes arent even half way through their first workbook. shhhhh dont tell them I told you) just goes to show how hard we are working. AND the best thing is everyone is making awesome progress with their reading. So keep it up Tremendous 12, Im so proud of all of you!!

What else have we been up to this term so far??

Ahhh that right we have been busy learning about famous artists.The 2 artists we have been focusing on are Picasso and Van Gough. 

Picasso was famous for his cubist style art where he would put many different angles and views into the one picture. We also looked at his "Portrait of a Woman" painting and some of his cubist style work..

Pablo's real name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz Picasso. A lot of the names are of saints and relatives.

According to his mother, Pablo's first words were "piz, piz", which is short for lapiz - Spanish for 'pencil' 

Some of his paintings are amongst the most expensive in the world.

Van Gogh was famous for his sunflower paintings and his "starry night" paintings. The most amazing thing about his "Starry Night" painting, which he painted in 1889, is that the stars are painted in the correct postion as they appear in the sky. NOW THATS CLEVER!!
             

 

                 

Vincent van Gogh was born more than 150 years (1853) ago in Zundert, Netherlands (Dutch)

He had many jobs, such as working in an art gallery, as a teacher, in a bookstore and as a preacher.
Then, around 1880, Theo his brother, suggested he become a full time artist.

When he painted,Vincent liked to play with light and use loose brush strokes. He liked dark tones.

 We are becoming quite the artists in Room 12. Mr Nelson has started teacher us different brush strokes to use when we are painting to make our paintings a little more life like. I cant wait to see what masterpieces we come up with next week.

We've also been getting stuck into our inquiry learning this term. Our big question is "Where will our children live?" From there we got our subsidary questions "What changes are happening the environment?" "how are these changes effecting the world?" "what can we do to stop/slow down the process?"
Once we talked about our Hypothesis and developed our research plan we have been learning to take notes while researching.
We have been getting lots of helpful information from this great site called A Students Guide to Global Climate Change  

This week for inquiry we are going to learn how to create questions for an interview and interview Mr Wallace. He has some good ideas about whats going on in the world and how we can do our part to help out. After all he does take care of our school recylcing!!

Well I think its fair to say it has been a busy term so far with lots more to come.
Enjoy your week room 12 and I look forward to reading your Blogging Challenge comments this week.

 Mrs Harrison