Arts Integration
Sound Map
On Monday Divisions 7 & 8 went to Confederation Park during nature school. We learned about sound mapping. Students got ready for the activity by listening to the story, The Listening Walk, by Paul Showers. We then worked together to find some idea for things that they might hear. The nearby construction made it easy … Continue reading
Lion Art
During nature school on Monday Divisions 7 & 8 walked over to “Chestnut Town” and collected a variety of natural materials to create some art. Some of the items we found: pine cones chestnut ‘shells’ blossoms sticks leaves We filled up a wagon and headed back to school to create… Working alone, with partners or … Continue reading
We’ve been busy!
We have have super busy in our classroom these last few weeks. We have been working on our Lion King project for a month now, and have finally completed it! We did lion research in the library with Ms. Besic and we learned so much about lions. Thanks for helping us use a variety of … Continue reading
Spring Sketches
This week we got out to enjoy the sunny weather and did some sketching of the spring blooms in our garden. It looks amazing already. If you haven’t seen it, go take a look. We are very proud of the bulbs we planted last year! We used our regular pencils to sketch the outline of … Continue reading
Crazy Cats
On Friday for art we looked at the very colourful work of Laurel Burch. We learned how to draw a cat in her ‘style’ via directed drawing, and then used beautiful liquid water colours to duplicate her bold work. Take a look as we progress from drawing to painting:
Shadows
Finally some beautiful sun! We’ve been waiting for a day like yesterday… to explore SHADOWS! “Light and sound can be produced and their properties can be changed.” Divisions 7 & 8 first used sticks to trace our friend’s shadows in the sand…then moved on to using sidewalk chalk on the Confederation Park pathway. If you … Continue reading
Warm Colours
After our successful work with our cool colour cityscapes, we tried out warm colour snowmen!! This time we used the directed drawing technique to draw a snowman in the middle of our square page. We used warm coloured oil pastels for our backgrounds and our snowman’s details. We were also able to use black and … Continue reading
Snowy Day Art
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats was the inspiration for our art project last week. We began by reading the story together. We then used a directed drawing technique to draw our buildings using sharpies. We used vertical and diagonal lines as well as rectangles and squares. After our city was complete, we then … Continue reading
Bat Art
Bats Everywhere! We continue to build our knowledge of bats–even though our research writing is complete. We have been watching videos–Did you know there is a bat with a wingspan of 2M?? It lives in Australia. Here is a video we watched about that bat. As we continue to learn about bats, we’ve also been … Continue reading
Butterfly Photos
Last Week, Divisions 7 & 8 went out on a neighbourhood walk with our butterfly ‘viewers’ (thanks to Div. 7 for making those!). In mixed grade groups we went to look for some interesting patterns and symmetry. The groups had a digital camera and at least 1 viewer and were tasked to work together to … Continue reading