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:

The Three Bears … and some of their friends.

A directed drawing lesson and the use of oil pastels created these gorgeous bears

The Houses of the Three Little Pigs

We began with wax crayons. The students created a map with a pathway to which they added the three houses: straw, stick, and brick. They then used watercolour paints to finish off the artwork.

Goldilocks was Naughty

As part of our Fairy Tale unit we have been doing some looking at things from different perspectives. For this book the children made ‘wanted’ posters for the crimes (breaking and entering, theft, malicious damage, trespassing) perpetrated by Goldilocks.

Our Gingerbread Village

We had such a lot of fun on Wednesday when we created our individual ‘gingerbread’ houses. A huge thanks to the moms (and one dad) who came to class to help us complete these sugary creations

Together they make quite the wintry village.

Poppies in the style of Georgia O’Keefe

Like trees, every artist is unique …

We looked at a variety of famous artists and their work. I chose several different prints that had one thing in common – each contained at least one tree. We had a great discussion about the similarities and the differences of each artist’s style. We also discussed realism. Students then created their own art piece with the criteria that they include at least one tree. The work was completed with waxed crayons. These are on the bulletin board in the hallway and included below.

Van Gogh Sunflowers

We began with a look at Van Gogh’s artwork, with a special look at his paintings from his time in Arles in the south of France. We then used oil pastels to re-create his vase with sunflowers. Afterwards we did a blue tempera paint wash over top. They are on the bulletin board in the hallway.

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