Ms K Shellard and Ms A Clouston - Grade 2/3 Class
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!
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
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Core Competency: Creative Thinking
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Last week Gilmore Community School learned about Pink Shirt Day. Here is a picture of Division 13 in our sea of pink!
We read a book that focused on the concepts of love, being our true selves, tolerance and kindness. It was called They Are So Flamboyant by Michael Genhart. I am attaching the link of the story (read by him!) if you would like to share it at home with your child.
On Wednesday afternoon, Gilmore came together to celebrate Pink Shirt Day at our assembly. It was a very moving and heart felt assembly that showed what a loving and caring community Gilmore is! Ask your child what part of the assembly they enjoyed most.
I am also including the link for the true story about how Pink Shirt Day started in Nova Scotia. Please feel free to share it as a family to increase understanding of what we have been learning about here at school.
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Core Competency: Social Awareness and Responsibility
On February 11th, Div. 13 celebrated our 100th day of school, along with many other Primary classes. We all enjoyed looking old for the day and doing a variety of Math related activities that had to do with the number 100! We had a fabulous day!
Jump Rope for Heart took place in the gym for the whole school on February 10th. The students from Ms. Longeau’s class ran 10 different stations that all involved jumping, skipping, hopping and a variety of other exercises. Division 13 had so much fun skipping and supporting Jump Rope for Heart!
Last week Gilmore Community School celebrated Literacy Week! We read some great books, participated in school wide activities such as Mad Libs, Clothing Scavenger Hunt and had Ms Pitt join our class as our Guest Reader on Friday. On Monday, the author Cathy Hussey spoke to all of the students about her book Doug: The Story of a Tree. In addition, every day at 9:00 there were trivia questions presented to the school and many prizes were awarded. It was a fantastic week for Gilmore! We hope you enjoyed doing the Literacy Week BINGO as a family!
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
Hello Families,
Last week we celebrated the 45th Anniversary of the Terry Fox Run. We walked through our Gilmore neighbourhood with Ms Vincelli’s class and did the route two times around. It was a perfect day for the Terry Fox “Run”. Thank you to all of the families who sent in their toonie for Terry. Our class raised over $50 alone and this helped to push the school over our $1000 goal. Reaching that goal means that the teachers of Gilmore will be taking part in a water bucket challenge for the students to enjoy! Stay tuned for more information to come! Here are two pictures from our walk:
Families: I know when you receive this blog post it is coming to your inbox with Div. 14 rather than 13. I am trying to figure out how to change this on my end…..
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