Map of stories

Kia ora.  At the beginning of this term we started to research our community.  We begun with the Treaty of Waitangi and what it meant here in Mawhera, Greymouth.  We used the Map of Stories resources from @schoolkit to create some found poetry art based on the art of Tracey Tawhaio.

First we looked into  our town and shared our ideas on this padlet.

Next, we began to find some words and newspaper clippings that would help us tell our story.  We thought about theme colours to use and the kinds of pictures we wanted to use.  Once we had all that it was time to put it all together.  This was quite tricky.  Mrs Bellis had created an exemplar for us to follow which helped.  The painting was messy and we layered so much it took a long time to dry.

This is what we created.  Tell us what you think :)

SPACE ART

WALT: Create artwork using new and mixed materials.

We have been lucky enough to have Granny Waters in helping us with our art. We used a mix of flotrol, silicon water and paint and we dropped our paint into a cup from different heights  We chose a lot of interesting colours and put a little of each colour at a time.