合作制作中国龙
为给六年级学生在中国主题单元的学习画上精彩句号，我们樱桃园小学师生共同用纸盘制作了一条气势恢宏的中国龙。每位学生先在一只纸盘上绘制色轮，仅使用原色，自主调出间色与复色。
另取一只纸盘，每位学生用中文书写自己的姓名，并将其粘贴于已上色纸盘的中心位置；再将纸盘白色边缘剪成花瓣状。此外，学生们还用薄纸剪出更多花瓣，粘贴在白色花瓣之上。最终，每位学生都完成了一朵属于自己的“花”。龙首与龙爪则由其他纸盘制成，并以蛋彩颜料绘制。最后，一根长绳穿入所有纸盘，连缀成一条色彩斑斓的长龙……看，我们的神奇巨龙诞生啦！
特别感谢六年级优秀教师——福尔莫索老师！
以下图片展示的是费尔南德斯老师所带班级创作的另一条精彩中国龙。这位杰出教师任教于澳大利亚墨尔本的一所小学。她班上许多学生具有越南裔背景，因此他们将新年称为“农历新年”，而非“中国新年”。
他们共制作了三条纸盘龙，由七个三年级与四年级班级的学生共同绘制纸盘。费尔南德斯老师告诉我：“这项成果实不应归功于我一人——各班任课教师及我们勤勉敬业的融合教育助教，在龙身组装与展陈悬挂环节提供了大量协助。因此，这份荣誉应归属于圣约瑟夫小学三/四年级全体师生。”
感谢费尔南德斯老师分享您的精彩作品！
以下图片展示的是玛丽-简·西托老师所带班级创作的其他惊艳中国龙。这些作品来自澳大利亚卡布尔图尔蒙台梭利学校，由我校小学部140名6至12岁的儿童在多元文化日活动中共同完成。玛丽·简老师写道：“在我们澳大利亚卡布尔图尔这所美丽的校园里，140名孩子齐心协力，创作出四条精美绝伦的中国龙。设计本身已十分动人。我们请孩子们思考：希望为生活带来哪些祝福？又想对哪些事物表达感恩？孩子们选择了‘家庭’‘朋友’‘好运’‘爱’与‘冒险’。每条龙的身体上，每个纸盘均手绘有代表上述词汇的汉字，均由孩子们亲自完成。
这真是一项简单而充满喜悦的活动！”
感谢您从澳大利亚分享这些非凡的龙形作品！
Collaborative Chinese Dragon
To end with flourish the topic about China with the students of 6th Year at Cherry Garden Primary School we have made a great Chinese dragon using paper plates. Each one has painted her paper plate as a color wheel, using only the primary colours and obtaining secondary and tertiary colours.
In another paper plate each one has painted her name in Chinese, this has been glued to the center of the colored plate, and the white edge has been cut to make some petals. Other petals have been cut from tissue paper and stuck on the white petals. At the end of the work, each student has realized his “flower”. The head and paws of the dragon have been made with other paper plates and then painted with tempera. A long rope was inserted in all the dishes to form a long, colorful snake … and here is our fantastic dragon!
A special thanks to the wonderful Year 6 teacher, Ms. Formoso!!
Here below the pictures of another wonderful Dragon created by Ms. Fernandes‘ students. This amazing teacher teaches in a primary school in Melbourne, Australia. A large number of her students have Vietnamese heritage- hence they refer to the new year as Lunar New Year and not Chinese New Year.
They had three dragons made out of paper plates. 7 classes of grade three and four children painted these plates. She told me: “I shouldn’t take any credit for the work since I had a lot of help from the teachers of the classes involved and our hard-working- integration aides to assemble the dragon and hang up the display. So the credit for this work would go to students and teachers of Grade 3/4 from St.Joseph’s Primary School“
Thanks, Ms. Fernandes for sharing your work!
Here below are the pictures of other amazing Dragons created by Mary-Jane Seeto students. They are from the Caboolture Montessori School (Australia) and the dragons were made by 140 children aged 6-12 years in our Primary school for our Multicultural Day activities. Mary Jane wrote me: “Here at our beautiful school in Caboolture Australia, 140 children worked together to create four beautiful dragons. The design is gorgeous. We asked the children what blessings they would like to bring into their lives and show gratitude for and they chose family, friends, good luck, love, and adventure. Each dragon has the Chinese character for these words hand-painted by the children on every plate in their bodies.
It was such a simple and joyful activity!”.
Thanks for sharing your marvelous dragons from Australia!!
