Our Snow Families

When you come to the Christmas concert tomorrow, check out our art pieces on the bulletin board outside of the classroom. We spent several days, in many stages, creating representations of our families as snow people. Here they are:

More Complementary Colours

Sudents used construction paper, in complementary colours, to create woven patterns. These are on the bulletin board outside of our room next to the office.

Remembrance Day Poppies

After a directed drawing lesson on flowers – in the style of Georgia O’Keefe – students outlined their pencil drawings with China markers. These were then painted red with green centres. After these had dried students re-outlined them, cut them out, and glued them onto green construction paper. This was also a reinforcement on our lessons on complementary colours (red and green).

Colour Theory – Tertiary Colours

As part of our ongoing study of colour theory, students experimented with using two secondary colours (orange and green) to create tertiary colours in their Fall pictures.

It took a bit of practise but most students were able to blend the two secondary colours to create the effect of tree leaves gradually changing colours in the Autumn 🍃🍂🍁🎃

Our Personalized T-shirts

Through our discussions around Orange Shirt Day, and learning about residential schools, students created their own personalized t-shirts. These were meant to depict themselves and things that are important to them.

Yertle, the Turtle – and a few friends

As part of our unit on Dr. Seuss we looked at a variety of real turtle shells online. Students then created and designed their own turtle shells (top and bottom) out of paper plates. These turtles are now gracing our bulletin board in our classroom.

Bucket Lists

The Class in the Hats – Division 6

We have been enjoying the many fun books by Dr. Seuss.

Students had a directed drawing lesson on the human face and then drew themselves. They then gave themselves a Cat in the Hat hat!

Animal Habitat Dioramas

Students began by looking through science books and thinking about what sort of animal they were interested in studying. They then looked at the sort of habitat in which their chosen animal would survive.

Students created their animal out of plasticine of various colours, due to our supply, and then learned how to meld the correct colour of plasticine as a coating on top. They used photos of their animals as their models. They did a great job!

The inside of the shoe boxes were painted to represent the parts of their habitat (sky, grass, jungle, desert, etc.). Students decided what they needed to complete their habitats. I got various supplies for them (coloured papers, coloured plasticine, liquid glue, hot glue gun) and they collected natural materials (sticks, stones, sand).

I enjoyed watching their creations develop. They are now completed and on display along the window ledge in the Library. You can see them there if you are attending the Volunteer Tea tomorrow afternoon. I have taken pictures of each which are below.