Frida Kahlo

Towards the end of last term and beginning of this term, we have been learning about Frida Kahlo.  She was a Mexcian painter who painted self portraits. In her portraits, she usually painted herself with bushy eyebrows and moustaches. Did you know she had polio when she was 6 year olds and walked with a limp for the rest of her life? She was also in a bus crash when she was 18 years old. Her injuries were so severe that she spent many weeks in the hospital. She felt physical pain throughout her life. That's when she started to paint.

The painting tecniques we used were:

• to use both sides of the paintbrush
• to use long brush strokes
• to mix colours to create the colour we wanted

We used lots of colourful paints to paint her face. To make the flower(s) on her head, we used tissue paper. We folded the tissue paper back and forth like a fan. Then we stapled the middle and then fanned the paper out to make it look like a flower.

Zombie Apocalypse!

We have spent the last week of term trying to survive a zombie apocalypse! When we arrived at school on Monday, there was Crime Scene tape around our classroom, our classroom had been trashed and the desks and chairs had been tipped upside down, and there was zombie slime EVERYWHERE! Then our teacher gave us a scenario to work from:

The world has been infected by a deadly venom. The source of the venom is unknown, but what is known is that 92% of the world’s population is now dead. An unexpected side effect of the venom is that it has caused those who have fallen, to rise again with an insatiable hunger for the flesh of the living. 

How would we survive? 

Each day we were given a new piece of the story and a new set of parameters that were added to the list of existing rules. We had to brainstorm "Things to consider," and then adapt to these parameters in order to survive. We learnt how to purify water, make forts, search for food in the wild, and make a bow and arrow. Great survival skills for any situation. 

Here's the scenarios we were given...

Luckily, we survived just in time for the holidays!