Week 8 - Doubles and the creation of Pixel Art

Kia Ora bloggers,

For the past few weeks, we have been developing our multiplication skills.  This week we have been using our Math skills to create some Pixel art. We have been learning how to enlarge drawings using our knowledge of doubles.  As part of this learning, we have also made a connection between doubles and the 2x tables.

Firstly, we investigated and made connections between the doubles and 2x table facts. You can see this in Daiki's example below.

Then, we worked on this activity.  Mr Riceman showed us how to use doubles to make an enlargement.  This activity is also available on the Math pages of our class site.  If you are up for the challenge there is a help video inside the video that you can use to have a go at creating and enlarging one of these designs too.

During creation time, we had two designs to enlarge.  This was challenging but we were able to use our knowledge of the 2x tables to help us.  Once we were confident with this, we had the chance to create and enlarge our own designs.   You can see examples of Morgan's and Daiki's creations below.

One of Daiki's patterns

One of Morgan's creations

We would love some feedback.  If you have created pixel art, or have any questions, please leave us some positive, thoughtful and helpful feedback.

Week 8 - Putting together our artwork

Hi Bloggers,

This term we have been working to create a piece of art for our bi-annual art show.  This year our theme for the art show is animals.  It links with our Inquiry work too.  Manukau have just about finished their pieces.  We have been combining quite a few techniques to create 3-D fish in an underwater scene.

Firstly, we created paper mache fish using water balloons, paper and paste.  While these dried we designed and created an underwater scene on A3 paper. As part of this, we were learning about mixing and blending pastels to create new colours and smooth effects. Some of us also chose to collage extra features onto our scene.  Once our balloons were dry, we cut them in half, hot glued them to cardboard then added the fins.  We chose New Zealand fish for inspiration.  With our plan ready, we then cut these out using craft knives and painted our fish appropriately.  The final stage was positioning the two fish we created on our background, again using hot glue.


Next Tuesday evening is the opening of our art show.  We hope that you can join us.  Lots of work has gone into these as you can see.  You could also check out our individual blogs to find out more about students' individual pieces of art.