Lego Community

Room 18 was inspired by Lego artist Olafur Eliiasson from our art gallery trip that we made our own Lego Community

Explorer time Week 2 Term 4

Frivolity with ribbons and creative movement. Jackson Pollack inspired painting. Sculptures with natural materials. Rubbings from nature.

Auckland Art Gallery- Light show.

The Wonderful Auckland Art Gallery

This week we have spent time finding out more ways to look at and talk about art at the wonderful Auckland Art Gallery. We had a ball with the LEGO, got a sneaky peak at the start of the Light Show, played with some colourful light, and talked with the educators about some amazing paintings. We had a lot of fun.

Auckland Art gallery -light show

Explorer time week 1 term 4

There was lots of inspiration for creativity after a quick athletics practise.  Music, art and science with water and bubbles.

Philosophy in Room 15

After discovering the amazing artist and architect Hundertwasser during the Art Festival, we decided to explore some of his ideas in Philosophy.  Hundertwasser believed that:

Nature + Beauty = Happiness

But what did he really mean by that?  We decided to explore those words and see what they mean to us in Room 15.

We started with Nature, looking at what Nature is and what it isn't.

We had lots of great discussions and came up with some ideas about what Nature is:

Nature is beautiful.
Nature is wild.
Nature is living creatures.
Nature is alive.
Nature is never made by people.

But we needed to check our thinking.  Is nature always all of those things?  More talking and thinking lead us to come up with some counter-examples.

A dead plant is not beautiful but it is part of Nature.

A rock isn't alive or a living creature but it is part of Nature.

A pet cat isn't wild but it is part of Nature.

But the one thing we could not find a counter-example for was:

Nature is never made by people.

So this became our definition.  Now we need to use our philosophy thinking to come up with definitions for Beauty and Happiness.