Sculpture by the Sea 2009

Art
These photos are from an exhibition I saw during the holidays at Reverse Garbage in Marrickville. They are made from recycled materials found in the reverse garbage store.

I think everyone enjoyed our excursion to Featherdale Park, so Marion and myself would like to take you on another excursion. This time we want you to walk a bit and enjoy one of the nicest coastal walks in Sydney while admiring great art. It is the Sculpture by the Sea exhibition, which takes place every year in November.

You can check the photos from previous years in my other blogs. For example this is the one from 2007 and 2008.

Check the link Sculpture by the Sea and answer these questions:

What is Sculpture by the Sea? Tell us a bit of its history as well as an explanation of what it is.

When does it take place?

Where does it take place?

What type of art is exhibited?

Why does it attract so many people?

What is Sculpture inside?

Can you find the name of the sculpture on your left? What about its sculptor?

Write the answers in your blog, but as a paragraph, without using numbers. It should read like a newspaper article about the event.

Opinion
We've been looking at opinion texts. A forum is a space where people express their opinions and discuss them with other people. Go to our forum and answer the question on Disciplining Children. Remember to ask your teachers for the username/password. Read Question 1 and then read your classmates answers. Refer to them when you write your opinion.

Work to be published:

• Report on the Tawny Frogmouths
• Report on an animal of your choice (form Featherdale)
• Next week: Opinion text about Physical Punishment & Children
• Videointerview with Maya, one of the college librarians.

Featherdale Farm

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Last Tuesday we went on an excursion to Featheredale wildlife Park. Search the Internet for information on the park. Answer these questions and write a recount in your blog (check Marion's post on recounts and my previous students' examples):

• What/who/when/where/How (Orientation)
• Where is it?
  
• What do they have in it?
  
• How much is the entrance fee?
• What did you do?

Choose an animal and with the notes you wrote and searching the Internet to get further information (if you need it) wirte a report on it. Follow this information on report writing. Have a look at this information on report writing: animals. You can use this template to guide your writing. Start preparing a draft for a report on that animal. On the excursion you can find out more information about your chosen animal and take photos to publish a complete report on your blog.

Now for something very different. Listen to my interview wity Luke Kara. Do the work I ask you in the post.

My Hometown

What is this? Where did I take this picture?

Last week you answered some questions about tigers and lions. The resulting paragraph was a report. Today you can write a report about your hometown. Before you write it, check the power point below. You can also get morte information about report writing in these links from previous posts (there is a bit of repetition):

Reports:
Reports: Information Texts
My Hometown
Written Skill, Report: Places,Checklist
Huesca
Sydney
My suburb
Students'Hometowns or Countries
More Students'Hometowns or Countries
Cities
Reports:
Animals
Template for a report on animals





Don't forget to read the answers to your questions on last week' s walwisher. Some teachers read them and answered them!