Egyptian Death Masks

The children have been learning about Tutankhamen and the discovery of his tomb and treasures. They have been working for several days on these paper mache masks and today they finally got finished with the painting.

By R

By L

We made the masks by layering newspaper pieces and glue over a balloon. The rest of the mask was cut from scrap cardboard and attached with more paper mache. We used metallic acrylic paints to finish them off.

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's day to all you mums out there. Here are the lovely cards and paper flowers that the children made for me. I also got toast in bed too!

Book Project

The children have been working for a while on making a zig-zag book. It will tell the story of our journey back to England to our friend's wedding. So far they have completed the map pages to show the route we took. They used Aboriginal style dot symbols to show the landmarks and route.

By R

By L

The children have already made a storyboard and written their text for each of the inside pages. Next they will decorate the pages and add in their text before finishing off with a cover.

Come back soon to see more.

Cookies

Today the kids made some delicious cookies - chocolate chip and savoury Parmesan and pumpkin seed. 

Collaborative Aboriginal Art Map

For the last 2 weeks the children and their friends have been working together on a mixed media, Aboriginal influenced map of Australia.

First the kids used magazine scraps to collage a map of Australia.  We got in some geography by showing which areas are forested and which are desert.

Youngest group beginning their map collage

Collage base complete

Once it was dry we added Aboriginal dot symbols to show the location of major cities. The children then decorated a mini canvas each with an Australian animal.

R's lizard mini canvas

L's possum mini canvas

Next we mounted the mini canvas pictures onto our map. They turned out pretty good I think and it was great to work as a group on a single art work.

Little kids canvas

Big kids canvas

Basketball

This term we are joining our friends from Home Education Penrith for basketball lessons at the sports centre. Here's a couple of pictures from today's session. Looks like the kids need to grow a bit!

Nature Study - Autumn Leaves

We have some lovely Autumn colours in the garden right now, so this week's nature study was on leaves. First the children roamed around the front and back gardens looking for as many different coloured leaves as they could find. They mounted small bits of leaf on some card with double sided tape attached to it.

Leaf colours from our gardens. 

Next we did a sketch in watercolour pencils of one of our most colourful trees.

Autumn tree by L

Autumn tree by R

We searched around the tree for some beautiful leaves with many colours on them. We made a sketch of our favourite leaves.

Autumn leaves by L

Autumn leaves by R