Category: Class News

Our Snow Families


We have completed our long and detailed art project.  It was many steps over several days.  First we painted blue backgrounds.  Then we added tissue paper and glitter snow along the bottom. Painted balls were then placed to represent the members of our immediate families. Foam board was used for the accessories of hats and scarves. Permanent markers for small details – eyes, arms – were used. At the end we added more tissue paper snow to the bottom and placed snowflakes in the sky.  Our family names were mounted on foam board and attached.  They look great!














Primary Colours Create Secondary Colours

Students were given paint palettes with three colours of paint – red, blue, and yellow. The instructions were to paint any picture they wanted but they needed to show six colours – both primary and secondary colours. To be fair, they mostly made ‘intermediate’ colours as the colours they created were most likely not of equal amounts of primary colours. Most students managed to make secondary colours (orange, green, and violet).  Some people discovered what happens when they mix too many colours –  they get brown.














Every Artist is Unique …

We looked at a variety of prints of famous painters’ works.

Camille Pissarro

August Renoir

Paul Cezanne

Claude Monet

Vincent Van Gogh

Henri Matisse

Pablo Picasso

We discussed how the paintings are different and how they are the same. It was noticed, by the children, that while they all have at least one tree in their painting, they are all different versions, techniques, and styles of trees. Students then used waxed and pencil crayons to create their own ‘unique’ pictures.  They all needed to include at least one tree … everything else was up to them.  Here are the marvellous results:














Our Powerful Family Memories

We have begun the school year by looking at our families and learning about the many varied types of families.  We enjoyed “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge” by Mem Fox.  This is a lovely story about a very young boy whose family lives next to a senior’s home.  Wilfrid Gordon knows all the people, and is friendly with them all, but his favourite is Miss Nancy Alison Delacourt Cooper because she has four names, too.

One day he hears his parents talking about how Miss Nancy has lost her memory.  This sets him on a quest to learn about memories and to help Miss Nancy find hers.

After reading the book we discussed memories and what makes some of them more powerful than others.  Here are their responses:















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!!