{"id":111,"date":"2020-09-27T22:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T22:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/?p=111"},"modified":"2020-09-27T22:17:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T22:17:44","slug":"beautiful-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/2020\/09\/27\/beautiful-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Beautiful Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know one of the things I enjoy most about visiting schools is seeing all the beautiful artwork and how children can all start at with the same instructions and have such amazing creativity within their own piece of artwork. \u00a0With Covid-19, this is just one more aspect of sharing our school community experience that needs to be reimagined.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-27-at-2.45.05-PM-296x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-27-at-2.45.05-PM-296x300.png 296w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/files\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-27-at-2.45.05-PM.png 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a class, we read the book, Beautiful Hands by Kathryn Otoshi and Bret Baumgarten. \u00a0The artwork is beautifully colourful and all done in handprints. \u00a0The simple text explores how people can have an impact, be creative, and demonstrate love without needing to touch each other.<\/p>\n<p>After a class discussion, we then went outside and explored painting with our hands, both as handprints and exploring how acrylic paints blend through finger painting. \u00a0Once dried we cut out our handprints to make our own beautiful hands, communal artwork.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-109 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_4654-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_4654-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/files\/2020\/09\/IMG_4654.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case it&#8217;s hard to read, the bulletin board reads,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With Covid-19, we can&#8217;t hold hands but we can learn, create and play together!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Big Learning Idea:<\/h4>\n<p>Creative experiences involve an interplay between exploration, inquiry, and purposeful choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know one of the things I enjoy most about visiting schools is seeing all the beautiful artwork and how children can all start at with the same instructions and have such amazing creativity within their own piece of artwork. \u00a0With Covid-19, this is just one more aspect of sharing our school community experience that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10103,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/hydec\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}