Grade 2 National Day Batiks

The Grade 2 students reflected on what they love about Dubai and the UAE int his batik.  They are so excited to see how the batik has changed after painting and washing it! 

Celebrating A Local Artist

This week, a student from 3KR treated the class to some of his mom's art work. We were very impressed and inspired by the painting and the print. Many of the students chose warm colours for their sky like the ones they saw in the print. 

International Day in the Art Room

Students were invited to decorate our class rain stick for international day this year. Students from all over the world braided and twisted together colours from their countries flags and we tied them onto the stick.

Working Together 

Bracelets Too :)

And Flags! 

Look who I found in the cafeteria: Captain America!

Grade 3 Urban Communities

During the Grade 3's Unit on Urban communities, all of the grade 3 classes came for an extra visit to the art room to learn about drawing cityscapes. They are doing swimming this quarter, so it was a treat to see them.

We looked at shapes in many of the popular buildings that are in Dubai today. We also looked at how they could use organic and geometric shapes to design new buildings that might be built in the future.  I challenged the Grade 3 students to draw Dubai in 5 years. Students then went back to their classes to finish their project with their classroom teachers. It was very exciting to see these grade 3 students this week coming into the art room with magnificent cityscapes!

National Day in the Art Room

As we wandered around the school on National Day, there were many beautiful patterns and lines on the tapestries, abayas and traditional decorations. In the art room, we went on a hunt for lines and patterns too.

Meet the line detectives!

Decorating our Arabic pots with lines and patterns. 

Everyone's was so different!

 Happy National Day!

Learn More About Lines!

FINAL DAY TO SUBMIT ENTRIES IS 
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 11

In celebration of this year’s UAE National Day, the Sheikh Mohammed Centre for Cultural Understanding (SMCCU) has announced the 2012 

‘Treasures of the UAE’ Art Competition!

GWA has registered for this art competition. Please let Mrs Murphy know if you would like to submit an entry. You can find additional information on the site below.

 Treasures of the UAE.

Cezanne Inspired Still Life

Grade 5 students have chosen objects from our local culture for their still life and carefully moved their objects around until they had just the right composition.  They are now finally ready to apply their newly learned colour theory to their paintings! Check out Wallwisher below to hear about how their projects are going! (Grade 5 students will be posting this week.) Pictures soon!

Click here to view Wallwisher!

The students improved Ms Murphy's composition!

Beginning to paint!Black lines give EMPHASIS to the painting.

Finishing Up this Week! We have some very proud students.

My UAE on A Canvas

Looking for a great way to start the new school year? Take a look at this community art competition, My UAE  on a canvas, organized by Mubadala as part of its youth program “Weyana”, in association with Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation. If you are between 7 and 24, you can enter. Just make a collage, drawing  or painting about what you love about the UAE!  Click on the link above for more details and be sure to register before October 12. The deadline is October 31, 2012. GREAT PRIZES!

A Special Thanks to the Workers of Phase 2!

Over the past few weeks, Grade 3 students were busy designing and working on a mural outside of the Phase 2 building. The mural is a special project initiated by the students to thank the workers of Phase 2 for their hard work. On Tuesday, Grade 3 students proudly hosted a brunch for the workers. The students sang a song to the workers lead by Mrs. Clark with music by Mr Howe. It was a song that the Grade 3 students learned in music class and reminded them of the workers, who had to travel far from home to work. Rishik Janaswamy read a special thank you to the workers in Hindi and Diane Pech in English. The Grade 3 classes then presented the workers with the mural and said a big “Shukriya”! A photograph will be hung in the entrance of the new Phase 2 building and the mural will be moved to the back of the new building where you can admire it as you drive into the school each morning.

The workers were appreciative of the gesture and enjoyed shaking hands with a few students who spoke Hindi as they ate a relaxing brunch in the courtyard. A box of hats, donated by Dhruve Srinivasan and his dad were given to the workers as they relaxed in the courtyard. A very special thank you to all of the students, the teachers, and support staff who made this event happen!

Working on the Mural

Dubai in 5 Years

Grade 3 s are currently investigating urban communities in their unit of inquiry. In art we are looking at the buildings in Dubai. Here we are drawing buildings that we see in Dubai and buildings that we imagine may be built in the future! We are using a new medium: oil pastels and chalk pastels to colour them in. Here is what 3JH completed in our first class. We will post the finished products when they are done!