Sunday, March 20, 2016

Celebrating NOWRUZ

On Friday we were lucky enough to have one of our class members share her special tradition with us.  We have been writing about family traditions in our room and this young lady taught us all about the Persian new year - Nowruz, meaning NEW DAY.  Below is a photo of the haft-seen table which was made for us to experience. The table, which is always on display at Nowruz, has seven items laid out on it and they all start with the letter S and have a significant meaning.

We learnt so much and appreciated the effort that was put into it.

 

Monday, March 7, 2016

Autumn is here...

Room 9 has started on a beautiful piece of autumn artwork.
Some of us collected leaves and then we studied the veins, the shapes and the colours.

We used pastels in autumn colours to cover our entire page trying to blend the shades of colour together as we went.  Then we painted over the entire page with black paint.  While we were waiting for the pain to dry we practiced drawing different types of leaves in our sketch books.  Our next step will be to carefully scratch the outlines of our leaves into our black paint, revealing the beautiful autumn tones that lie beneath it.  I will upload the end result later in the week.