Category: Art

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Students of Division 9 recently harvested 342 potatoes that they’ve been growing and tending to since March.  They also prepared detailed presentations for our Strong Start students and their parents to explain the potato lifecycle and how to grow them. Students thoroughly enjoyed digging in the dirt and discovering different insects that decided to call our potato plants home. Once the potatoes were harvested each student took their own bag of potatoes home to enjoy with their family members.

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OBJECTIVES

•  Design and construct a boat with only the supplied materials in 2 1/2hours
•  The boat should float
• Carry lots of weight and go fast

TOOLS AND MATERIALS PROVIDED:

• two 4 x 8 feet sheets of 1/8 inch cardboard
• 25 feet of string (8 meters)
• one roll of duct tape
• one roll of packing tape
• one retractable utility knife
• one laminated sheet with specified team number (we were Team 3)
• two pencils
• one pairs of gloves
• one pair of safety glasses
• 2 meter sticks
• a tape measure

RACE TIME

2 MINUTE WEIGHT CHALLENGE

HOW THEY DID

During the construction phase of this challenge the students worked cooperatively and used their creative and critical thinking skills to design and construct a well built boat.  Together they successfully completed the 25 meter race across Kensington Pool and their boat stayed afloat for the 2 minute weight challenge at the end of the race.  Even though they were the youngest in the competition and the first to compete, they finished in 67 seconds posting the second best time in the first round of races.  These students did an excellent job representing Twelfth Avenue Elementary and demonstrated that with planning, focus, and teamwork you can achieve your goals. Way to go team! You were amazing and should be very proud of your performance!

In this art lesson students of Div 9 learned about the Japanese art form, Notan.  They used paper cutting, contrasting colour, and lines of symmetry to create unique positive and negative designs.  They also learned that space is the area above,  below, between, within, and around the main objects in a piece of art and that space is present in all 2D and 3D art.

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In this activity, students designed their own superheroes using only fruits and vegetables. Throughout the lesson students were required to use their knowledge of vegetables and fruits, as well as their imagination to describe their superhero’s physical characteristics and superpowers.

Students also learned that they need to eat five or six servings of vegetables and fruit every day and that vegetables and fruit provide us with the vitamins, minerals and fibre we need to stay healthy.

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On February 28, 2018, students from Div 8 along with their big buddies from Div 2 wore pink in support of Pink Shirt Day.  They also came up with these messages to encourage everyone to practice kindness and that together we can make a difference to help combat bullying.

Students were shown a picture of Kandinsky’s concentric circles.  They were then asked to explore concepts of colour and how it relates to emotion. Examples were: What emotion do you associate with red? (anger, embarrassment etc.) What emotions do you associate with blue? (sadness, loneliness, calm) What emotions do you associate with yellow? (happiness, contentment, warmth) etc.  They were then given a sheet that had multiple hearts on it and asked to creatively express using colour how they were feeling. The results are quite stunning.

In celebration of National Literacy Day student from Div 9 along with their big buddies from Div 2 created their very own literacy equations after reading This Plus That written by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  The book provided inspiration to help students come up with their own fanciful equations on literacy. Some examples they came up with were “book + quiet space = reading”, “writing + music = song writing,” and “reading + writing = literacy”.

After reading The Day the Crayons Quit written by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers students compiled their own letters to the main character from a crayons perspective.

In this story Poor Duncan just wants to colour. But when he opens his box of crayons, he only finds letters, all saying the same thing: We quit!  Beige is tired of playing second fiddle to Brown, Blue needs a break from colouring water, while Pink just wants to be used. Green has no complaints, but Orange and Yellow are no longer speaking to each other.

Students all came up with their own humorous conversations around why they quit as they expanded their knowledge of writing as a tool to communicate effectively for a variety of purposes and audiences.

“Life is a rainbow road, multicoloured with the most brilliant hues and contrasting with the darkest tones.”  Ted Harrison

For more information on Ted Harrison visit: https://tedharrison.ca/pages/about

During this lesson students acknowledged that we reside on the traditional ancestral shared territory of the Coast Salish Nations of Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish.  Students also learned that there are three main groups of Indigenous people in Canada: First Nations, Inuit, and Métis.

Before reading Little Bears Vision Quest written by Diane Silvey we also discussed the importance of stories and how they are an integral part of Indigenous culture. Students learned that stories are not just for entertainment but they are told to teach lessons and these lessons typically focus on ways to overcome a struggle, how to change attitude or behaviour and how to be the best person possible. In this particular story Little Bear learns to be kind, thoughtful and respectful toward others after being banished to a remote island.

After listening to the story students then created these bear paws to represent the qualities that make a good friend.