Pumpkin Carving

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Today we joined our big buddies in a school-wide pumpkin carving activity.  Even though some students – but clearly not all – were a bit squeamish about touching the insides of a pumpkin, a good time was had by all!

The seeds were collected and will be washed, roasted, and given to classes to eat tomorrow.

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A huge thank you to the parents who came out to help with this event.

Where the Wild Things Are

Last Thursday we did a great activity with our Division 2 buddy class.  We heard the story – Where The Wild Things Are – and saw the short video, as well.  Then, divided into two groups, we worked either in Mrs. Iverson’s room or our room.  We created some great – scary looking – monsters using chalk pastels on black construction paper.

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Check out the bulletin board outside of our room and the one upstairs by Mrs. Iverson’s room.  Both boards have a variety of pictures from each of the classes.  Here are two of our students’ work:

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I think that they look great.  I hope you agree!

Elements of Art – Colour

Last Friday, during our Art period, students performed experiments with colour.  We started with the three primary colours – red, yellow, and blue.  Students learned that ‘primary’ colours – meaning ‘first’ – are important because they can make other colours but other colours cannot make them.

Using these three primary colours students made the ‘intermediate’ colours – orange, green, and purple.

Once students had each created these three new colours they were given a new piece of paper.  They were asked to paint a picture – of whatever they wanted – but they were to show the six colours (the three primaries and the three intermediates) in this picture.

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I think they look pretty great!!  I hope you agree.

Updated Schedule / Spelling Programme

Our daily schedule has been slightly altered.  We have added another PE block on Tuesdays during Mr. Phelps’ time in the room (between Recess and Lunch).

There is also a change with our weekly spelling lists/tests.  Mr. Phelps will now be doing the Words Their Way programme with the class – also during his time slot.  This week he is doing assessments on the students to determine their spelling groups.  Beginning next week the students will have a spelling list glued into their Planners.  They will do activities with these words throughout the week and will have their spelling tests on Fridays.  Mr. Phelps will mark these and then they will be sent home.

If you have any questions about Words Their Way, or PE, please feel free to contact Mr. Phelps.

 

Clothing Drive

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The leadership group are running a clothing drive until October 29th.  If you have some used clothing that is no longer suitable (size-wise or other), please bag it up and deliver it to the stage in the gym.  These bags of clothes will be delivered to a needy, local charity after the 29th.

Thank you for supporting this cause.

The Elements of Art

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Last week we began our study of the Elements of Art.  We did crayon rubbings with which the students demonstrated their understanding of the six elements.  Most of these elements are fairly self-explanatory (colour, shape, line, form) but as an FYI – ‘texture’ is how something feels or ‘looks’ like it feels, and ‘value’ is the lightness or darkness of something.  Value can be with colours or non-colours (black, white, and grey).  The difference between ‘shape’ and ‘form’ is the dimensionality – e.g. a 2-D shape drawn on the board is a ‘shape’ but as I can’t pick it up off the board it has no ‘form’.

Here are some of the crayon rubbings:

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