Congratulations Staff!!

Just a wee note to all members of the teaching staff at our fantastic little school.

1. Congratulations for challenging your skills, you are constantly aiming to increase your own understanding and therefore will ultimately create great thinkers in our students. I hope we continue to aim high and to be on the look out for ways to improve teaching and learning at ODS. You all impress me with your dedication and willingness to try new things!You ROCK!!!
2. We think way beyond our years! We have taken on a very challenging topic this term, it is a very hard concept for the children to grasp and really we are talking about high school art history!! Thanks for not being afraid to give things a go and for learning alongside the children - a credit to you all.

Keep on rockin people and enjoy the wearable art!!!

Zee

Room 4's Goal for Inquiry Term 4

THIS TERM WE ARE STUDYING aN aRTISTS wORLD. oUR cLASS HAS TO DESIGN AND CREATE A PIECE OF WEARABLE ART THAT SHOWS THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF pOINTALLISM. mY GOAL IS TO INTRODUCE AND USE A HIGHER ORDER THINKING KEY: BAR. THIS WILL ENCOURAGE THE STUDENTS TO USE CREATIVE THINKING AND TO ADD, REMOVE AND MAKE AN ASPECT BIGGER ON ANY PARTICULAR ITEM. I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS AS I HAVEN'T TRIED IT BEFORE WITH MY STUDENTS AND I THINK THE STUDENTS WILL ENJOY THE CHALLENGE.

Goal for Inquiry: Using the Higher Order Thinkers key-The Bar Key

Our goal for this Inquiry, which has involved studying different Artists and their varied forms of art, is for the students to design and create a piece of Wearable Art reflecting Picasso's work. As part of this task/goal I am going to use the higher order thinking 'Bar Key' with the students, which will give them opportunities to think about the ways they can alter their creation. eg. making a part bigger, adding an extra part or object to the present design, and then, taking something away and replacing it with something else. We will practice this 'thinking key' using a variety of scenarios before we start 'making,' so that everyone is familiar with the strategies of B-bigger A-add R- replace.

Barbara Noaro
Year 2,3 and 4 class