Our Podcast Rama and the Demon King is now live on iTunes! Search Arts Ed Adventures or click the link here. Grade 4/5 students have been working hard on their parts since Spring Break with the help of Mr. Bogle. We began the project by listening to podcasts and looking at voice actors to learn some of the elements and techniques that go into a project like this. Next, we voted on a radio play from the book "Three Rocking Crocs" by Kaye Umansky and Helen MacGregor. Students also designed and created podcast logos for our channel, watch our page for featured student work!
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Elementary students at DSCS have created some beautiful Valentine themed artworks over the past couple weeks. Check out what each grade did below! Grade K/1 - Tie-Dye HeartsThis is one of my favourite projects to do with this age group because it is incredibly easy and it always turns out fantastic for each kid. All you need is some round coffee filters, washable markers and a spray bottle! It is so fun to watch the excited faces when the colours melt together after spraying each piece. Once they were dry we folded them in half and cut out a heart from the middle. Scroll though the images on the right to see all the different creations! Grade 2/3 - Kandinsky Inspired HeartsStudents looked at circle artwork by the famous Wassily Kandinsky before creating these colourful heart mosaics. They used his work as inspiration for their colour pallet as well as his technique of layering shapes within shapes. I absolutely love how these turned out! Grade 3/4 - LOVE Pop ArtInspired by Robert Indiana's pop art Love sculptures, students created these prints using tempera paint, finger tips, and a limited colour pallet. These were a messy project but I discovered that even fourth graders aren't too old for finger painting! Grade 4/5 - Positive & Negative Space HeartsStudents explored the concept of positive and negative space while creating these wacky artworks. We limited our paper choice to black, pink and red which really allowed their designs to pop! Grade 4/5's are becoming experts when it comes to water pollution!! After watching the documentary "A Plastic Ocean" on Netflix over the summer, I was alarmed by what I learned and was inspired to create this unit to educate students on the issue. It just so happened that during the same time we were presented with the opportunity to be apart of the Salmon Mural (read blog post below) which tied in perfectly by giving students a local perspective on pollution in the Thompson River. Over the course of the school year, Miss Johnson and myself have been exploring the topics of plastic pollution with the students. We viewed clips from the documentary, read articles, looked at what other countries are contributing to the issue and examining the pros and cons to controversial topics such as whether it is a good idea to ban plastic bags and drinking straws. After the Christmas break we began to get to work on the final task of our unit, which was creating a mural to share what we've learned and promote change in our school and community. Students worked on their mural piece during Fine Arts time, filling it with their own plastic garbage and a variety of sea life. Each student choose a fact or statement around water pollution that they felt was important to share with people who viewed the mural. Below are some close ups on the details within each panel. We displayed the mural in the front windows of the school during the Learning Exhibition. This way the pieces could be viewed from both side of the window while also emphasizing the amount of plastics trapped within each panel. Unfortunately, the mural was hard to capture in photographs due to the lighting but I must say they were beautiful to see in person. Students were able to great guests and share their learning with everyone who came in door! Education is a powerful tool and I believe these kids are going to do their part to change the world. Please visit https://www.plasticoceans.org/ to learn more! Here are some clearer photos, taken of the mural against a wall: Throughout the school year the Grade 4/5 class have been focusing on the environment and helping the Earth. I have been collaborating in Fine Arts along with Miss Johnson on our Plastic Ocean unit. In the fall, we were presented with the wonderful opportunity to work with two local community artists, Dan and Marina at their Hub studio to have students create individual pieces within their salmon mural. This project fit perfectly into our classroom visions, as it raises awareness around the diminishing numbers of local salmon and the rise in pollution in the Thomson River. Our initial visit to the studio happened at the beginning of the school year. There, students were able to see the beginnings of the mural and understand the important message it will share to the viewers. Marina shared her vision for the mural, emphasizing the importance of the salmon to our people, why they are such sacred animals and how our pollution is affecting the number of salmon returning to our waters. The mural is meant to promote change, for us to do our part to keep our river clean of plastics, metals, garbage and pollutants to help save the salmon. Sometimes people don't always listen to words, sometimes looking at artwork Each student was given the task of coming up with a design that would be inside of their glass bubble. The kids were asked to think about why the river and the salmon are significant to them, their lives, and their community. They all needed to consider and meet the challenge of working in the small space of the bubble. Each glass piece is only about the size of a bottle cap. During our fine arts time, students experimented with ideas and created designs that they could use for their bubble. Next, they choose their best design and copied it very carefully onto the back of the glass bubble using permanent marker. Students delivered their finished bubbles to Marina and Dan in December and were very excited to get to see them placed inside the mural on our next visit. Today was our final visit to the studio to see the [almost] finished mural. I was blown away by how stunning it looks with all the colours, textures, details, and the beautiful driftwood frame that was found on the river shore. Within the frame is even a salmon fossil that is 40, 000 years old! The pollution - pieces of metal, glass and plastics are all found items from the river. The students, and myself are all very excited to find out where the mural will be installed in community. Our next task is to write an artist statement about our glass bubble artwork to be shared with the mural unveiling. We are SO fortunate to have such talented and passionate people willing to work with our school community to create this beautiful and important piece of art that will displayed within the community for many years to come! Kindergarten and Grade 1 students have been learning all about leaves throughout the month of September. We learned about the warm colours of fall (orange, red, yellow) and all the different shapes, sizes and textures of leaves. The classes went on a leaf hunt to search for their very own leaf people after reading the story Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. "Where a leaf man goes, only the wind knows...."
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