Lia Winfieldale. International School Teacher @Taipei European School.

Why Mosaic?

Having organised the resources into different areas of art focus in the Art room, I came across many small mosaic tiles that has been ordered and not used for who knows how long!…

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We have just completed our IPC topic on Habitats. We have have been learning and sorting plants and animals into their habitats. In addition we have been learning about how humans adapt their homes to suit their habitat.



We learnt how to use Google Sketch up and designed our own homes. We used clay to create our house structures and learnt how to join clay together.…

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Linking Art with ICT programmes is always a battle, especially when you are a novice like me. However great tutorials available online is always helpful.

 

This tutorial here is inspired by Julian Opie using Paint.Net. Watch the…

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This term I have started Art around the World Art club, creating fantastic art and craft pieces from different cultures. We began our journey in China, tying in with the Chinese New Year celebrations.

First project was to create a Chinese lantern. Hoping to move away from the stereotypical paper lantern, I was inspired by this paper marche lantern, created by tissue paper.…

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Resource:  DaVinci Teacher Guide

Just recently downloaded Google sketch on my laptop and seeing many future  projects using this tool. A little bit late you might say, but better late than never!

 

Watched the tutorial videos and came across a very good teacher guide to making buildings and gave it a…

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Trying to find a fun sustainable art project to do with another Year 5 class. Finding it difficult to rummage through the mass of eco craft that doesn't seem to invovle a lot of art skills. After doing some research on Google came across this website http://artinspired.pbworks.com/w/page/13819524/Assemblage-and-Ready-Made which had this fabulous website of a… Continue

For International Week this year the school has decided to have the class teachers and students decorate their own rooms and do activities of their chosen countries. Previously, the parents would come into school during the weekend and decorate a room of their country and they do activities with the…

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Did a class swap today with a year 5 class who is participating in laptop for schools pilot scheme. The class is lucky enough to have a laptop per child where learning and ICT webtools co-exists.



As part of their IPC unit, the class were learning about planets and the solar system. They already discussed and designed their very own planets. Having come across Dirk Paessler's panorama planets from PhotoJoJo, I thought this… Continue

http://www.makingbooks.com/freeprojects.shtml

Awesome website that has pdf and youtube tutorials on making books with children. Take appreciation and ownership of children's writing to another level by publishing their own books!

I was introduced and fell inlove with the website Photojojo after reading one of our brilliant member's blog, The Carrot Revolution. A big thank you to David for having this website in his blog!



Photojojo is a photographer's paradise of fun and inspirational photography projects, making your own lenses, news about interesting photography products and many more. I came across the article about… Continue