We had a fun day at school today with a parade, Halloween trivia, roll-a-pumpkin drawing, and two-sentence scary stories.
Wishing everyone a happy and SAFE Halloween!
Month: October 2023
Necessity is the mother of invention: students wanted another chess set, so they built one out of Lego! Super inventive!
Division 5 has been discussing how traditional Indigenous place names are tied to the land; including living things, geographical features, and resources that have been important to the people living on the land.
We discussed some Indigenous place names around BC and what those names tell us about the land. Here are a couple of resources we looked at today.
Native-Land.ca: a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. (This didn’t project well in our classroom, but feel free to have a look at home!)
Pronunciation of some place names in Vancouver
From the CBC article: Road signs along the Sea to Sky Highway offer insight into the history of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people
Division 5 has been starting our school year focusing on some drawing and colouring skills. One of the most significant ways for students to move forward with their art is to focus on drawing what they ACTUALLY see and not what they THINK they see. This way, students are able to develop greater detail in their drawings, in addition to developing observation skills used across the curriculum.
At this time of year our subject of choice is the beautiful leaves around us. The colours are so vibrant, and the shapes and textures are varied. Each student chose a leaf they liked, and set to work sketching the shape. They had to pay attention to small details like a bit of the leaf that was torn or missing, the shape of the stem, and if the leaf had points or texture around the edge.
Today we talked about how we add colour to enhance the texture of our drawing, and how we can blend colours to create depth and interest. We also looked at how colouring in one direction can help define the “maturity” of our art–as we could see from my examples below, it makes a difference!
 Try this… |
 …instead of this. |
Check out some of the students’ art so far!
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Class code: RC377163