Division 18 at Gilmore Community School
Today our class did an art workshop with Arts Umbrella and it was fantastic! They brought posters with images to inspire students and did a quick demonstration of how to sketch and colour sea creatures with oil pastels.
Students had about one hour to create their art pieces.
Here are some photos from the workshop and art work was sent home today.
You may have heard that we go to the library on Mondays for story workshop with Ms. Papapanagiotou. What does that look like?
We work with loose parts to inspire our imagination. We have talked about who can be in a story and today we talked about creating the place where a story can happen. In partners or small groups, students agreed on a place and then used the loose parts to create it. At then end, we went around to all groups and they shared their story settings. We had a castle, a house, a beach, a forest, a houe on a mountain and a couple of hounted houses for Halloween.
Part of the Kindergarten and Grade 1 curriculum is creating and sharing stories orally. We will be focusing on the oral language component before moving onto writing stories.
Here are some pictures from the creating and sharing process from today.
Today we went outside to observe, investigate and collect fall leaves. We read a non-fiction book about fall and why trees lose their leaves. We looked at the trees, we saw all the leaves collecting around the playground area and each student brought back to class two different leaves. We then compared the leaves and talked about what we noticed. We sorted the leaves by colour and then put them in order from smallest to biggest. Check out some pictures below.
*We were inspired by the picture book “The Leaf Thief”. Ask your child who is the leaf thief!
This week, we read the book “Our Class is a Family” and discussed how we want to treat each other and make each other feel at school. We created and signed a class poster that we are committed to treating each other like family.
Students also drew a picture of themselves at school with people from our classroom community.
Today we did counting collections in Math. Students got a bag with random items, organized them and counted the items.
It’s an easy activity to do at home with items in your own house (Lego pieces, paper clips, rocks, pasta, beans, elastics, etc) and muffin tins or ice cube trays to reinforce counting numbers and one-to-one number correspondence.
Today we read the book “It’s Your Brain!”. The book explains what the brain does and how to keep it strong.
We followed the book with an activity in which students drew their brains working out. In the thinking bubbles, students drew things they can do to keep their brains growing and healthy, such as getting enough sleep, learning new things, eating healthy, and wearing a helmet.
Check out these amazing brains!!
