Ms K Shellard and Ms A Clouston - Grade 2/3 Class

Category: Fieldtrips

Gymnastics Field Trip

Friday’s Field Trip

Tuesday’s Field Trip

We had two fantastic trips to the Queen’s Park Sportsplex for our gymnastics field trip. All of the students made huge strides in their gymnastics skills and had an amazing time hanging out with their friends. Thank you to the parents who volunteered to drive so that this field trip could be a success.

Big Ideas:

  • Learning how to participate and move our bodies in different physical activities helps us develop physical literacy
  • Daily participation in physical activity at moderate to vigorous intensity levels benefits all aspects of our well-being

Curricular Competency:

  • Develop and demonstrate a variety of fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical activities and environments
  • Identify and explain factors that contribute to positive experiences in different physical activities
  • Develop and demonstrate safety, fair play, and leadership in physical activities
  • Develop and demonstrate respectful behaviour when participating in activities with others

First Peoples Principles of Learning: 

  • Learning ultimately supports the well-being of the self, the family, the community, the land, the spirits, and the ancestors

Content:

  • learn how to participate in different types of physical activities, including individual and dual activities
  • learn the effects of physical activity on the body

Core Competencies:

  • I can describe and demonstrate pride in my positive qualities, characteristics, and/or skills
  • I contribute to group activities that make my classroom, school, and community a better place
  • I can demonstrate respectful and inclusive behaviour with people I know

Swimming Lessons at Kensington

Last week, Division 13 had an amazing time at their swim lessons at Kensington Pool in the gorgeous sunshine! The students were so excited to be taking lessons together, learning new skills, jumping off the diving board, and travelling on the bus. What a successful and fun week to bring everyone together.  A good jumping off point for some students to start taking lessons over the summer!

Arts Umbrella Inservice Lesson

On Tuesday, Division 13 had an amazing experience with the artists from Arts Umbrella. The theme for our art was Creatures in the Ocean.  Arts Umbrella had massive poster boards covered with real pictures of creatures from the sea. Sarah, the Emily Carr trained artist, taught us how to sketch the creatures using shapes. She spoke about filling our papers up with a variety of sea creatures. She also suggested that some creatures could be in the foreground and others in the background. She also taught us not to worry too much about exactly “perfecting” our sketches, as we could change them once we coloured them in. Like last week’s lesson in class for our art cards, we used pastels, but this time we used oil pastels.  Sarah also spoke about layering colours on top of each other and trying to colour in the entire creature, as we were eventually going to be painting over everything with watercolour (resist). We look forward to sending home the gigantic art next week once all of our paintings have dried (some students finished their watercolour painting today.) Our art turned out amazing and we were so lucky to have had this in-school art experience!

Van Go Arts Umbrella Learning Outcomes:

• Students will make connections between art as a medium to express self, feelings, ideas and experiences, and art as a vehicle for relationship-building with self, others and the world

• Students will create individualized art compositions on paper utilizing oil pastel and watercolour resist, symmetry and balance, and blending