Category: Art

After experimenting with creating 3 dimensional hands, some students tried to extend their thinking and apply this art technique to create other 3 dimensional forms of art.

Zentangle is an easy to learn method of creating beautiful images from repetitive patterns.

At the beginning of the school year all students of Stoney Creek had an opportunity to develop their ADST skills with Alex McKillop, our Applied Design, Skills & Technologies District Advisor as they planned, designed, cut, sanded , and decorated wooden leaves for our school kindness mural. The next time you are in the school be sure to stop by the office and admire their beautiful artwork.  Like leaves blowing in the wind this mural will be a permanent reminder for us all to perform random acts of kindness and give back to the community in positive ways.

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Aaron Nelson- Moody led students through a guided session on indigenous art and storytelling.  Students learned about the significance of a house post and learned about the symbols commonly used in First Nations art and carvings.  They then had an opportunity to create a drawing of a salmon using the techniques demonstrated by Aaron Nelson- Moody.

Big Idea

Exploring stories and other texts helps us understand ourselves and make connections to others and to the world

Works of art influence and are influenced by the world around us

Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people’s sense of identity and belonging

Curricular Competencies

Identify how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to the land

Explore a range of cultures, and the relationships among cultures, societies, and the arts

Parents/Guardians: When you have a moment please log on to your child’s blogfolio and provide your feedback on your child’s Remembrance Day poetry.

Lesson Overview

Big Idea:

Using language in creative and playful ways helps us understand how language works.

Curricular Competencies:

Recognize how literary elements, techniques, and devices enhance meaning in texts.

Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create texts for a variety of
purposes and audiences.

Transform ideas and information to create original texts.

Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways
to respond (ethical judgment).

Big Idea:
Artists experiment in a variety of ways to discover new possibilities and perspectives.

Curricular Competencies:

Develop and refine ideas, processes, and technical skills in a variety of art forms to improve the quality of artistic creations

Notan is a Japanese word meaning the balance between dark and light.  In this art piece students cut paper and used lines of symmetry reflections, and positive and negative shapes.

Lesson Overview:

For this project,students of Division 4 used Micrography (a Greek art technique using small writing) to form a self-portrait.

Big Ideas:

Artists experiment in a variety of ways to discover new possibilities.

Creative expression is a means to explore and share ones identity within a community.

Engaging in creative expression and experiences expands people’s sense of identity and belonging.

Curricular Competencies:

Choose artistic elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, and environments using combinations and selections for specific purposes in art making.

Interpret and communicate ideas using symbols and elements to express meaning through the arts.

During our first week back to school the Grade 5’s created this amazing mural to remind us all to be kind to one another.  The mural also showcases that positive actions no matter how big or how small do make a difference.