Day: 13 November 2016

Remembrance Day at Rosser

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We had discussions on Remembrance Day and why we commemorate this particular day.  We looked at these two books.

Students created poppies.  Some for our class wreath which we took to Confederation Park and laid on the cenotaph during our ceremony …

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and some we did through a directed drawing lesson …

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These were drawn onto white paper, outlined with black crayon, and then painted with red and green paint. Once these were dried they were cut, re-outlined, and then glued onto green construction paper.  We had a discussion on complementary colours – those that are opposite to each other on the colour wheel.  Red and green are complementary colours.  This is why they ‘pop’ when put next to each other.

Other complementary partners are:  blue/orange; and yellow/purple.  Each primary colour has a secondary colour as its complement.

Some of these poppies are on the bulletin board in the office; the others are on the smaller bulletin board in the hallway outside the office.

We also had a great outing to the Confederation Park cenotaph on Thursday morning. The students were solemn and respectful; the Division 2 leadership students put on a great assembly; Mrs. Schwarz told some great stories about life in the wars; and the weather was spectacular.  It was nice to see some parents join us for this outing.

Fall Scenes

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We spent some time experimenting with colour theory by using the three primary colours – red, blue, and yellow – to create some interesting looking variegated leaves. We used leaves cut out of special colour diffusing paper.  On one of the leaves students coloured it with the three primary colours using food colours; with the other one they used Solucryl water colour paint.  Most students enjoyed using the food colours better than the paints, with this particular paper.

These leaves are placed around the bulletin board in the hallway which holds our bat pictures.  These bat pictures are the students’ third bat drawings.  We initially did two directed drawings of the same bat on regular drawing paper.  The students then created this same bat drawing on grey construction paper.  They could then add some background details that would be found in the Fall.

Fin’s Friends

This is a programme from the Vancouver Canucks organization which focusses on personality traits involved with social and emotional learning.  We will be doing several lessons over the course of the school year.  We began our lessons by discussion some personality traits such as: kindness; friendliness; and perseverance. We read a book called, “I Like Me”, which is about a chubby pig who likes herself for being just the way she is – whether she is on her own or with others.  Students then thought about things that they like about themselves – things they are good at doing, how they treat others, etc.

They then created wishing well art pieces with their written statement about themselves incorporated into the art.

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I look forward to many more lessons over the school year.