March 2-6

Rooms 20 and 21 were very busy week this week. We hope that your children have been sharing what we have been doing in class.

Art Felt

Both classes had two opportunities to work on the large whole school project. Students were excited to be back working with the wool. On our first day we made little pom poms; these will be sewn together for a larger mural. On our second day we made more pom poms and had the opportunity to work on the tree and heart for the large mural. Next week we will visit the Art Felt room to see how things are progressing.

 This is the felt when it has been cut into chunks.

 Felt was place in Easter eggs, cut side up. Water was added then we shook the egg for 3 minutes.

There are a few rinsing and rolling steps, but this is the end result. 

Ask your child to tell you the whole process. 

Social Studies/Art/Writing

This week we integrated many subject areas together for our learning. We wrote about the piece of art we created last week (Indigenous Landscape). This week we heard the story of Sam Livingston, Calgary's first settler/farmer. He was married to a Metis woman named Jane and they had 14 children. The classes used pencil crayons and oil pastels to create a landscape from their perspective. The students then wrote about this perspective. On Friday, students compared their two landscapes to decide which piece of art they felt was best and why. They also considered how they could improve their art.