Our First Art Project of the Year

One of my favourite subjects to teach is art. I hope the students get as much out of it as I do. Watching their confidence in their abilities grow, is always wonderful to see. I typically begin with line at the beginning of the year as the first element of art we study. Line is a great starting point and there are always so many interesting art projects to do that relate to line. Watch for more line art pieces in the coming weeks!

Math Mania

We have been hard at work working on a variety of math activities.

Building patterns with more than one attribute. The attributes are: colour, shape, size, position and thickness.

If you know the answer, can you create a math problem?

Make 10 practice. Knowing the our make 10 facts will be a tremendous help for when we start working on more challenging addition and place value.

The Integrated Arts and Hoop Dancing

 Athlone School was lucky enough to have Teddy Anderson come in and teach each class the basics of hoop dancing. Students took part in two sessions with Teddy and they were able to try out their hoop dancing skills.

This month, our class also had the opportunity to work with sculptor David Perret. David taught our class how to sculpt with plasticine. Each student created a "bust" which is a representation of the upper part of the human figure. I was quite impressed with all of the hard work that went into creating each piece. Great work!

April Showers!

Spring has finally arrived... We can finally go outside without ski pants, we will celebrate Easter and Earth Day and we are in the final stretch of the school year! Check out our new art projects, our non-fiction animal posters, penpal writing and what we have been learning about in science. 

Our study of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia inspired us to create sailboat art!

It's raining, it's pouring!

Reading and writing all about a variety of animals.

Name that liquid...

We learned a few new words such as absorption, transparent, translucent and opaque.

We wrote back to our penpals at Royal School.

Easter math... the equations were hidden in the eggs.  We had to use magnifying glasses to find the tiny equations.

Find an egg and answer the question inside.

March Madness

March has been an extremely busy month. We had two successful conference days and have been busy learning about solids, liquids and gases, Lunenburg, measurement, non-fiction reading and writing and much more! I/We look forward to taking a bit of a break at the end of the month before we resume for the last few months of school! Here's to hoping that the weather finally takes a turn for the better and we get rid of all of the dreadful snow. Enjoy the spring break!

Falling back art

Were you able to guess the 3D solid?

Looking at maps of St. James and Lunenburg

Conferences

Thank you to all students and families who came out for Conferences. It is very rewarding to see the progress each student has made since the beginning of the year! Keep up the great work!

New Year, New Learning!

Check out what we have been up to in January and February! I apologize for not being able to post the February newsletter on the blog. I have been having a few technical difficulties. Hopefully March will bring warmer weather and better luck with technology.

100 Day poems

Handing out Valentine cards

If I found $100 writing

Decorating Valentine folders

We can write 100 words!

100 Day and Valentine Math

Creating tints and shades

In Social Studies we have been learning about the Plains Aboriginal peoples and The Aboriginal Clan System

Aboriginal x-ray style art... inspired by Manitoba artist Clemence Wescoupe

In Math we have been focusing on 2D shapes and 3D solids. Can you build all of the 2D shapes using toothpicks and marshmallows?