Today we learnt about the French Artist Georges Seurat. He lived a 'comfortable life' in France in 1859-1891. We learnt about the technique he used to create the many wonderful pieces of art. I found it most interesting that he never mixed paints but instead chose to let out eyes mix the paints, when he painted his paintings with small dots and dashes super close together.
Did you know that over 8 million metric tons of plastic is dumped in the ocean yearly? This is very harmful to our marine life; as they consume it unable to recognise that it is plastic. As you can imagine it doesn’t end well and sometimes it even ends up in us!
One way you could save the environment is by refusing products that contain microbeads. Microbeads are tiny bits of plastic that are detrimental to sea life. By refusing to buy the products manufacturers will be pressured into making their products plastic free.
And if you’re not ready to take that big of a step you could always start by reducing. Reducing the use of plastics. Biodegradable bags are a great alternative instead Single use plastic bags. These environmentally friendly bags are basically everywhere now, so it shouldn’t be too hard for you guys to get one!
Another way to help with the plastic pollution problem is by repurposing. There is so much in your home that you could be repurposing. Repurposing the plastic would mean changing it to do another job. For example, an empty milk carton can be turned into a flower pot. The plastic containers use it to store things, there are endless possibilities.
Plastic is all of our problems as we are all responsible for the care of our environment and we should definitely work together to solve it. Remember to Refuse, Reduce and Repurpose. Next time you go to use plastic think about the marine animals you could save without it.
This week is the first week of Term 4. And like always were had an immersion assembly and thankfully the fact that we were in level 1 meant that the whole school could come together again. Our theme for this term is Art Alive.
In Team 5 this term we will be learning about different artists and different types of art. I really enjoyed the play the team 5 teachers put on it was very interesting and had many different aspects of art. I especially enjoyed that Mr Hughes actually spoke in spanish and english for his art introduction and I was able to understand both languages. :))
This term I am really excited to learn about art and hopefully improve. I'm hope that we get to try many different kinds of art styles. I've wanted to do art in school for a while because both the process and finished project always look very interesting and tell some kind of story.
