Category: ADST

Arts Alive – BAG Gratitude in the Little Things

For our Art piece we were inspired by the book “Mole’s Sunrise”, by Jeanne Willis.  In this story Mole goes to see his very first sunrise with his friends Vole, Squirrel, Sparrow, and Rabbit.  Their vivid descriptions bring forth a clear picture for Mole. In the end we learn that Mole is blind and has witnessed this sunrise in his mind. We had a very thoughtful discussion about the book.

We took an 18” x 24” canvas and divided it into three panels with artist’s tape. We used acrylic paints (which one group mixed and blended) to paint the background areas on the three panels.  While this was happening the other group took various colours of modelling clay and created the colours needed for the trees, branches, leaves, rocks, and the suns.

Painting happened first.

The next day the modelling clay crew took over in stages and attached the modelling clay to the canvas to create their objects.

Five students created three of the same animals.

It all came together this afternoon.  We then took off the border tapes.

The student are very pleased with their finished work. It is heading off to the Burnaby Art Gallery on Thursday.

The Opening Night of the exhibition will be on Thursday, May 1st.  All the participating school’s art pieces will be on display there until June 1.

Our Community Grid

We started with a large piece of white roll paper divided into 24 six by nine inch tiles.  These all had mapping coordinates on them – A1 through to D6.  Heavy tag board tiles were cut to these measurements.  These were temporarily taped together so the grade twos could draw on the basic structures of roadways, parks, and the school site.

Each student then chose their tile as their name was pulled from a box. Two students were then pulled for the extra two tiles.  Then the individual work began.  Plasticine was used as ground cover – grass, cement, or asphalt for roads.  Students chose different structures for their site. When these were all in place, details were added such as trees, stop lights, flagpoles, etc.

Side view photos in three sections for close ups:

 



And one from the other end …

Five classes came and viewed our work this afternoon.

Well done, everyone!!

Showing our stuff …

They were all SO happy to share their work with some older classes🙌🏻
A HUGE thank you to Ms. Branco (with Division 3) and Ms. Sansom (with Division 1) who accepted our invitation to see our hard work 💗💝💖

We set up in the downstairs corridor.  Ms. Volpe and our daytime custodian, Ben, also appreciated the work and enthusiastically told the students how they felt.




ADST – Dream Playgrounds

I will post the finished pictures here when they are submitted to me:

This one is Jonathan’s:

This one is Jasmine’s:

This one is Chase’s:

This one is Maddy’s:

This one is Aaron’s:

This one is Adam’s:

This one is Aidan’s:

This one is Ethan’s:

This one is Manuel’s:

This one is Nathan’s:

This one is Sophie’s:

This one is Katie’s:

This one is Lily’s:

This one is Weston’s:

This one is Roberto’s:

This one is Mikylla’s: