Last week was our first visit to the art room!  We watched an i-movie of Autumn Leaves and trees set to the song “Autumn Leaves” by Ed Sheeran.  After that inspiration, we picked up the charcoal and started to sketch.

What were our goals?

• To have a ‘horizon’ line for our tree to sit on
• To fill the page with our tree
• To have leaves falling around the tree
• To have leaves on the ground

What were the learning outcomes?

Visual Arts:

• create images in response to something they observed and experienced
• create images featuring line (e.g., straight, wavy, curvy, thick, thin)
• demonstrate an awareness of safety considerations for the use of materials, technologies, and processes (e.g., appropriate use of scissors and other sharp tools, obeying hazard symbols)

Science:

• illustrate and record changes that occur throughout the seasons (e.g., flowers blooming, snow melting, leaves falling, lakes freezing)

Come and see our artistic creations inside the school on our classroom bulletin boards…here’s a few to pique your interest:

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In our last few drama periods we have been working on dramatizing the story “We’re Going On A Bear Hunt” by Michael Rosen.

What are the learning outcomes we are working on???

The drama curriculum for Kindergarten and Grade One includes:

• find and stay in their own personal space (e.g., the “space bubble” that a person occupies) throughout drama explorations (K)
• use drama exploration to show sequence (e.g., beginning, middle, and end of stories) (K)
• use their bodies to explore movement in their own space (e.g., painting a large picture, floating on clouds, sitting on a boat) (K)
• retelling or altering stories (e.g., creating a different ending for a story, exploring what might have occurred in the lives of characters prior to the beginning of the story) (1)
• working in role to imagine and play characters from stories or real life events (1)
• using movement elements and their bodies to explore a variety of imagined environments (e.g., floating in outer space, swimming under water, crawling through a cave, jumping in puddles, trying to move in a crowd of people without touching anyone (1)
• find and using their own personal space throughout the drama activity (1)

You can also check out the author ‘reading/performing’ his story on youtube: Michael Rosen

We are all excited to try “We’re Going On A Ghost Hunt” a little closer to Halloween!!