Our class created poppies from construction paper which were attached to a frame to form our wreath for today’s assembly. It looks lovely! We enjoyed the wonderful and touching assembly put on by Ms. Branco’s class. Well done, Division 3! I hope some of you were able to watch it via Zoom.
Category: Art Programme
Bernard, the Butterfly – and his cousins
Colour Theory
The Elements of Art
We have begun our learning journey on the elements of art. We started with a discussion on what an element is – the parts that make up a whole thing – by discussing elements of music and literature, and then art. Students learned that there six elements of art: colour, shape, line, form, texture, and value.
We used leaves to demonstrate our knowledge of these elements. We did some outlining and some rubbing techniques. The results are quite stunning.
Thanksgiving Thoughts and Turkeys
Turkey Trot 🦃
Trees, like artists, are Unique …
Our Art lesson last week focussed on the idea of individuality. We began by looking at a variety of famous artist’s paintings (Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Picasso, and more) each with their own particular style, where the only thing in common was that each art piece had at least one tree. Unfortunately the glare is distorting a few of the images.
Students then created their own pieces of art. They were able to use any of their colouring media (felt markers, pencil crayons, or wax crayons) for their art piece.
These are displayed on the bulletin board in the hallway outside of our classroom.
New Links on Symbaloo
Hello all,
When you click on the Symbaloo link on the front page of this blog (under School Links) it takes you to my Symbaloo account. This is a way of bookmarking several outside links for easy access. I am not sure how many people are using this but I have just added two new tiles for your use: Go Noodle and Michelle Stoney. These are located on the left hand side underneath the tiles for RAZ-Kids and Zorbits.
Go Noodle is a site which hosts a collection of videos for you and your child to get physically active. Most of the students know this site as Ms. Koebel used it in class when she was covering for me doing Reading Recovery last year.
Michelle Stoney is an artist from the Gitsxan Nation. It is her Facebook account which, unfortunately, does keep popping up asking you to log in to Facebook. You can keep clicking ‘not now’, or log in if you have an account. I would not recommend the students getting an account.
The reason that I put Michelle Stoney on here is that there are loads of her drawing that she is allowing people to download and use / colour for free during this time. It is a way for the students to see some authentic First Nations modern art and to explore their creativity in their colouring choices.
I hope your child enjoys these two sites.
Colourful Penguins
Happy New Year 2020!!
I hope you all had a great break!
With our buddies in Divisions 1 and 3 we created these lovely hats which we mounted onto coloured construction paper. We then cut around the hats making sure that we left a border of construction paper showing.
These are on the bulletin board outside in our hallway.