Category: Art

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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.

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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.