Ms Courtney's Class

UoI We have finished our How we express ourselves unit this week. All the students have put so much effort into their journals and other pieces of work throughout the unit. After the Khmer New Year break we will begin our final unit of inquiry, in the theme Sharing the Planet. Central Idea: Human actions can preserve of endanger animal life.  If you have any contacts who could be a guest speaker during the unit, please let me know. Assembly Today at assembly French, Mandarin and Khmer language students performed a song for us. Khmer New Year activities We participated in some traditional Khmer New Year activities to celebrate the new year. Student Led Conferences Thank you for coming to the student led conferences on Wednesday. On the 23rd April all students need to wear a green t-shirt for Earth Day. Happy Khmer New Year

The students each selected their favourite piece of work in their Art Journals and have explained why they like it. I chose this poem because it has colors that are calm and peaceful. I was inspired by the color of the sea and the land. - Vannissa I think the shape inspired me to make a dog because a dog is always hungry and I felt hungry. - Seb We made a collage each. I made a chetah, it reminds me of the colorful origami colors. I was going to make a bunny then a turtle, then a chetah. We were inspired by Henri Matisse's artwork, his was a snail. Mine is how the chetah is camouflaged so well in the wilderness. - Molly This is my favourite because I liked when I was drawing a lot of cool pictures and I like to draw people. - Peter I was inspired by the sunset because the sunset made me feel cam. This is my favourite artwork because I used the whole page and the whole page is colourful.  Akari I made this in free choice. it is my favourite because I am ...

Here are the links to the Padlet boards where we can collect and curate our inspiration from nature.  Sky Fire Birds Water Space Land Animals Sea Animals   Mountains Plants  Jungle, forest, flowers Snow  

We began our 5th unit of inquiry this week. Our central idea is: People can find artistic inspiration by discovering and interpreting nature.  We will be inquiring into: Nature in the World around us Ways our observations and inquiries influence our action and art making  This unit we will be focusing on different forms of art, how people are connected to nature and how we interpret nature to create art. Students will be working on this unit in Art and Music. Journals The students have been working on at art journal in the classroom, art and music. Over the unit all the students thinking, pieces of art they create and reflections will be in these. The journal will become their summative assessment. On Wednesday all the Grade 2 students worked together to develop a set of criteria of what they will need to do to be successful in this unit. The success criteria the students decided on are: I can understand clearly what I am creating before I start...