During Pride week, we learned about The Story of Ferdinand. This timeless story is 90 years old and has never been out of print. It is the story about a bull whose favourite thing to do was to sit under his cork tree and smell the flowers. He chose what he loved, rather than follow what all of the other bulls and humans wanted him to do, which was fight. Ask your child what their favourite part of their stunning art is!!
Story (enjoy it together!)
Big Idea: Inquiry through the arts creates opportunities for risk taking
First Peoples Principles of Learning:
- Learning takes patience and time
Curricular Competencies:
- Explore elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and techniques of the arts
- Develop processes and technical skills in a variety of art forms to refine artistic abilities
Content:
- elements of design: line, shape, texture, colour, form
- principles of design: pattern, rhythm, colour and contrast
Core Competency: Creative Thinking
- Creative growth requires patience, readiness to take risks, and willingness to try new approaches
Learning involved:
- Students learned the significance of following step-by-step instructions, including the directed drawing Ferdinand
- Students outlined their bull with oil pastel to make the bull “pop”
- Students chose painted spots on their bull with white paint
- Students learned how to design and cut the flowers that Ferdinand was smelling
- Students learned how to incorporate their flowers in an interesting way by overlapping, making some big, medium and small, trying a variety of colours and shapes and thinking about how to display them
Looking forward to watching the movie this summer!