Students used “rainbow” coloured paints to create a background for their art. They then used construction paper to create their penguins and copy paper to create the icebergs.
Category: Theme Activities
Pringle, the Penguin Comes to Visit
A very cold package was delivered to us at school this afternoon! Inside the package was a letter from Admiral Drake explaining about the penguin (in the package).
The penguin’s name is Pringle. She arrived with a journal and a copy of Mr. Popper’s Penguins, written by Florence Atwater.
Pringle will be visiting each student’s home, with the journal, so they can make an entry about their experiences with Pringle. Students will share their entries each morning at Calendar time.
Division 6’s Gingerbread Village
Lots of fun was had today with the students creating their own versions of a gingerbread house. A lot of creativity was noted in design and detail.
A huge ‘thank you’ to our parent volunteers and Miss Maya!
Thanksgiving Fun with Turkeys
We Have Caterpillars 🐛
Our larvae arrived last Friday afternoon. We have small containers labeled A to Z, plus AA, BB, CC, DD, plus seven leftover larvae still in their original large container. Students have been enjoying watching them eat and grow.
We are awaiting their metamorphosis into their chrysalides.
Japanese Footbridge by Claude Monet
Using several different media (Sharpie felt markers, watercolour paper, tempera paint, modeling clay, tissue paper, and construction paper) students represented Claude Monet’s famous painting.
Loopy Penguins
We had fun creating these ‘loopy’ penguins out of different sized strips of construction paper. Some students turned theirs into a specific variety: Emperor, Adelie, Macaroni, and Rockhopper.
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.
100s Day Happenings
Our collections upon arrival and later on the bulletin board after school.
Some items were too big / heavy for the bulletin board.
Some of the hundreds of things we did today:
Fruit Loop necklace making – ten groups of ten.
Making head bands and crowns:
Sorting and counting 100 jelly beans by colour (pink, red, and white) and Smarties. This was done by the Grade 2’s.
We were very lucky to have some wonderful helpers this morning. Thank you to Dana (no photo), along with two of my former students, Maya and Lyka. They really enjoyed being in the class again after 13 years and the students really enjoyed meeting them.
It was a very full, busy, and fun day ☺️
Cinderella Penguins
After enjoying the book by Janet Perlman, student created their own versions of the characters using various kinds of paper.
Here are a few close-ups:
