Painting water for Something Fishy

With my Y3 students, we also explored the element of line and used 'wavy' lines to help us draw water ripples.

We looked at many photographs of moving, rippling water and Paua / Abalone shell to inspire us.

The colours of these shells are so beautiful and we really wanted to capture the essence and iridescence of them.
The trick was to use metallic student acrylic paints on black cartridge paper and... Voila!

Gold and copper metallics also help to add the sparkle, but keep an eye on this bit as little ones LOVE anything shiny and will easily over-do it.

Visit TPT (here) and TNB (here) to view my step-by-step art lesson guide for Something Fishy (with New Zealand cultural line pattern focus). Assessment Rubric for Level 2 and student self reflection included.

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Writing Cinquain Poems - Templates

Hello teacher friends,

Last term there was an afternoon when many of our teachers had to attend union meetings, so we had to double up some classes for the afternoon sessions. I planned a poetry lesson for my group and made this student guide to go with it. Being term 4, it was a great way to revise some of the learning we had done during our water unit (Sharing the Planet - IB), as well as language features.

I took it as a guided lesson for the first poem and as an independent for the second (9 yr olds). This lesson went really well. You can grab your copy by clicking on the image below. We worked through the first booklet (water poems) but I have also added a blank booklet so that you can use this for any theme you are working on.

The Water Cinquain Template is available from my TPT store - One Teacher's Journey - HERE

or grab it free by registering on my website to access my FREE resource bank  at - Help Me Learn - HERE

Enjoy :)

PRAISE FOR Cinquain Poems

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️fantastic resource. thanks