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Homework ( Literacy)

 First Article) Minnie Mouse gets a new makeover

Did you know that Minnie mouse is getting a new makeover? Usually she wears a red dress with white  polka dots on her dress. But to celebrate Disneyland paris’s 30  th anniversary she is now swapping her red dress with blue a blue blazer and blue trousers . The person who created Minne’s  new makeover is Stella McCartney . It’s not only Minnie's clothes that changed, it is also her shoes and her bow to complete her new look.

Second Article) Tick Tockers make the world's biggest cake pop

Did you know that a pair of tik tokers teamed up in Massachusetts to cook a nearly 50kg cake pop and break a Guinness World Record. TikTok creators Nick DiGiovanni and Lynn Davis, aka Lynja put together the cake which included the following ingredients.It included 32 boxes of cake mix, 5 1/2 cartons of egg mix and many more items. They also said none of it never went to waste.

Four Facts: Leonardo da Vinci

 

Response to Text: Thurs - Comic Art

Comic Art

Highlight the correct answer, or type in what you think is correct.

1. As a child Raina Telgemeier loved

a) dolls                                 b) comics

c) sports                               d) cooking

2. Raina said that there was a shortage of comics about

a) Superheroes                                      b) Villains

c) newspaper articles                            d) stories that she could relate to

3. In your own words, explain what Raina’s comic book ‘Smile’ was about:

→  It’s about Telgemeier’s middle school experiences with braces and dental surgery.

4. True or False: Raina’s comic book ‘Smile’ was not very popular with kids:

a) True b) False

5. True or False: Raina Telgemeier has had more than 18 million copies of her books printed:

a) True b) False

6. An important award in children’s literature is called the 

a) Academy Awards                 b) Duffy Award

c) Newbery Award                                  d) Pulitzer Prize

 

Four Facts: Stencil on paper

 

Response to Text: Weds - Pointillism

 Pointillism

Highlight the correct answer, or type in what you think is correct.

1. The art of Pointillism is a way of painting using 

a) stencils                           b) numbers

c) dots                                d) lines

2. An artist who developed this technique in 1886 was

a) Leonardo da Vinci                                  b) Georges Seurat

c) Frida Kahlo                          d) Pablo Picasso

3. In your own words, explain why pointillism paintings are different from normal paintings:

→Pointillism is different from normal art because pointillism is an art form using dots and normal art is using lines instead.

4. True or False: At first, the word ‘Pointillism’ was used as an insult to describe art:

a) True b) False

5. True or False: Pointillist painters mix their colours on a palette before painting:

a) True b) False

6. Pointillism is usually done using these types of paints because they are thicker

a) acrylic paints                    b) water colour paints

c) oil paints                                        d) pastels