Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary

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Jennifer:

IJJ:

[quote=\"Jennifer\"]

For last Monday assignment, is your girl able to provide some info on what the pupils are supposed to do? Many thanks.

Sorry, Jennifer, I only see your msg now. I was out the entire day and she did it herself. Now she is out, I will ask her later. Perhaps, other parents in Twk 8/9 can advise too?

Dun worry.

I grilled some info out of his little brain last night (had not been paying 100% attention :x during the art lesson). Then we proceeded to do sth, maybe wrong, but at least can hand in sth.

Draw squares (sth like squares) on the art block.
Trace out the shapes on the art block.
Create some pics on the shapes - like draw ears, eyes, whatever.
Draw some wavy lines on some of the shapes.
Next lesson will be application of colours.[/quote]
ummm, parents here are very 'hands-on' and makes me wonder am I simply bo-chap type . Saw ds2 did his arty work over the week-end and completed with great satisfaction, giving me his signature grimmy smile :love:
no need this mummy to involve at all. Sorry cant help any TW8/9 parents out there..

[Jennifer]

E3:

no good, no treats plus tongue-lashing.

My boy told me he scolds at least 7 to 8 pupils each week.

Somehow the evil in me wants to write a unkind complaint letter to the sch HOD.

[Jennifer]

IJJ:

My child does her art work like a chore. She is not the artsy type anyway.

Same here.

He keeps saying arts lessons are stupid. I ended up telling him to draw stupid looking creatures on the shapes since arts is so to him. It gave him great satisfaction to do so. Hiaz.

I think the prob with him is he thinks he needs to make an exact copy of whatever he is assigned to draw- like a photocopier. When he fails to do so, he gets discouraged n ends up disliking the task. Just like penmanship during P1. It was a hellish period for us then- all the temper flareups and crying.

[IJJ]

I wonder what other Twk (P4) classes besides Twk 8/9 are doing for their art lessons? The teacher is, indeed, having it easy, but the students (and parents) are definitely not.


Jennifer, the PH tr-in-charge for Twk 8/9 during art class is Miss Miao Fong Wan. She brings them to the art studio. You may want to have a word with her.

[Jennifer]

IJJ:

I wonder what other Twk (P4) classes besides Twk 8/9 are doing for their art lessons? The teacher is, indeed, having it easy, but the students (and parents) are definitely not.


Jennifer, the PH tr-in-charge for Twk 8/9 during art class is Miss Miao Fong Wan. She brings them to the art studio. You may want to have a word with her.

Thanks.

[dyh]

S6169:

IJJ:

I am so sorry. So busy with stuff yesterday. According to her :-

1. Fold paper into half. Cut along the line.
2. Fold one of the sheets (half sheet) until it about the size of 小书. Cut out the rectangle.
3. Cut a shape out of the rectangle.
4. Think and design pattern with the shape. Trace it repeatedly on the other half sheet of paper to make the pattern.
5. Repeat 3 more times with different shapes.

I know this is just too late. :imsorry:

Today, she says it will be batik painting.

Thank you very much,IJJ. Where is my son on last Monday's arts class. Daydreaming? Completely no ideal what did teacher say.

sorry I can't help too. I saw my son did his art over the weekend. But I hv no idea what it is about. Something about tessellations (sounds very \"chim\" to me). You know how he prevents the paper from becoming salted vege? just fold into half and chuck into bag. no art folio, nothing. :lol:

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dyh:

S6169:

[quote=\"IJJ\"]
I am so sorry. So busy with stuff yesterday. According to her :-

1. Fold paper into half. Cut along the line.
2. Fold one of the sheets (half sheet) until it about the size of 小书. Cut out the rectangle.
3. Cut a shape out of the rectangle.
4. Think and design pattern with the shape. Trace it repeatedly on the other half sheet of paper to make the pattern.
5. Repeat 3 more times with different shapes.

I know this is just too late. :imsorry:

Today, she says it will be batik painting.

Thank you very much,IJJ. Where is my son on last Monday's arts class. Daydreaming? Completely no ideal what did teacher say.

sorry I can't help too. I saw my son did his art over the weekend. But I hv no idea what it is about. Something about tessellations (sounds very \"chim\" to me). You know how he prevents the paper from becoming salted vege? just fold into half and chuck into bag. no art folio, nothing. :lol:[/quote]Mc Escher is famous for his tessellations art:
http://www.tessellations.org/tess-escher1.htm

The P4 kids will learn tessellations in Math. Small topic under Geometry.

[Jennifer]

E3:

dyh:

[quote=\"S6169\"]
Thank you very much,IJJ. Where is my son on last Monday's arts class. Daydreaming? Completely no ideal what did teacher say.

sorry I can't help too. I saw my son did his art over the weekend. But I hv no idea what it is about. Something about tessellations (sounds very \"chim\" to me). You know how he prevents the paper from becoming salted vege? just fold into half and chuck into bag. no art folio, nothing. :lol:

Mc Escher is famous for his tessellations art:
http://www.tessellations.org/tess-escher1.htm

The P4 kids will learn tessellations in Math. Small topic under Geometry.[/quote]My boy got his art work flashed on the visualisor today as a sample of wrongly done assignment. He came back with the right version 1/2 done in sch.

My boy also folds the paper into 1/2. I find the art folio a clumsy bag.

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Jennifer:

My boy got his art work flashed on the visualisor today as a sample of wrongly done assignment. He came back with the right version 1/2 done in sch.

Sigh. I hope his dignity is still intact. Many kids will do wrongly if the instructions is not clear. What IJJ mentioned earlier didn't sound like tessellations to me as well.

So did they do batik painting today? I wonder how he teaches them?

I conducted a \"batik painting\" with my P5 class before. We folded serviettes or kitchen napkins as many times as we can. It can also be folded into any odd shapes. Then we dip the different corners of a folded napkin into different diluted poster colours. The corners will absorb the paint to parts of the napkin. Then we leave them to dry. When we opened up the napkin (very gently) and voila!! A beautiful piece of batik art.

[Jennifer]

E3:

Jennifer:

My boy got his art work flashed on the visualisor today as a sample of wrongly done assignment. He came back with the right version 1/2 done in sch.

Sigh. I hope his dignity is still intact. Many kids will do wrongly if the instructions is not clear. What IJJ mentioned earlier doesn't sound like tessellations to me as well.

So did they do batik painting today? I wonder how he teaches them?

I conducted a \"batik painting\" with my P5 class before. We folded serviettes or kitchen napkins as many times as we can. It can also be folded into any odd shapes. Then we dip the different corners of a folded napkin into different diluted poster colours. The corners will absorb the paint to parts of the napkin. Then we leave them to dry. When we open up the napkin (very gently) and voila!! A beautiful piece of batik art.

Well, he clearly does not like the instructor nor the topic now. Just take it as a training for increasing the thickness of his face. Mr. Chin told the class he wants to see an improvement in the pupils' work at the end of the year.

There was not enough time to do batik painting. Becos many pupils did not do last Monday assignment correctly.