{"id":3113,"date":"2010-02-04T12:16:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2010-02-04T12:16:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:16:49","slug":"year-1-geckos-inspired-by-aboriginal-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/year-1\/year-1-geckos-inspired-by-aboriginal-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 1 &#039;Geckos&#039; Inspired by Aboriginal Designs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3114 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 5px;\" title=\"yr1-geckos-21-01-10\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/yr1-geckos-21-01-10.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Year One&#8217;s art topic this term has been texture and pattern.\u00a0 Last week, they looked online at some aboriginal paintings.\u00a0 They used their interactive whiteboard to look closely at the patterns and talked about how they could imitate them using everyday objects from their classroom.\u00a0 As their classroom is called the Gecko room, they decided to make geckos.\u00a0 First, they created a sandy background by marking brown, yellow and beige paint with their fingers.\u00a0 Then they each printed a pattern on their geckos using the wrong end of a small paintbrush.\u00a0 These were inspired by the aboriginal designs that they had seen.\u00a0 Click here to see a <a title=\"Year 1 Geckos\" href=\"..\/slideshows\/G1\/yr1-geckos-21-01-10\" target=\"_blank\">slideshow<\/a> of them\u00a0 printing their geckos.\u00a0 Look at the level of concentration on their faces.\u00a0 This activity required a great deal of patience and careful control of their fine motor skills.\u00a0 Do come and see all of the children&#8217;s geckos displayed in their classroom.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure the children would love to show you their art work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year One&#8217;s art topic this term has been texture and pattern.\u00a0 Last week, they looked online at some aboriginal paintings.\u00a0 They used their interactive whiteboard to look closely at the patterns and talked about how they could imitate them using everyday objects from their classroom.\u00a0 As their classroom is called the Gecko room, they decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}