IMPORTANT INFORMATION
A reminder that Spring Picture Day is tomorrow. Volunteer Callout! I’m dropping a bug in the ear of you gentle folk that we will need some volunteers for our field trip to the Weaselhead Preservation. Please email me or Jodi if you can make it! IMPORTANT DATES April 25: Spring Photos April 26: PoWer Hour begins May 2: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) May 2: Elder Shirley Hill May 7: Music Monday May 9: Weaselhead Preservation Field Trip May 9: Grade 3 presents to School Council!! May 14: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Elder Shirley Hill May 16: Fun Lunch (Wok Box) May 18: PD Day (no school for students) May 25: Volunteer Tea OUR DAY 136 days to go, 44 days left. Fist off, students were informed of their PoWer Hour selections. We are conserving paper, so the students were verbally told, with the encouragement to remember so they can tell you. Today, Mrs Ferrari came in and introduced our class to the beautiful world of felting. We are tying it in with flowers of Ukraine. To prep the students, we learned about important flowers, trees, and birds of Ukraine, including any legends. Mrs Ferrari showed the students how to gently stretch out the felt background, and then build from background to foreground. We discussed how you use small pieces, learned how to blend the Merino wool pieces, and then place them on the wool background. Students then planned out their designs, picking from one of the following flowers: malva (Мальва - malva) poppy (мак - mak) cornflower (волошка - voloshka) marigold (чорнобривці -chornobryvsti) sunflower (соняшник - sonyashnyk) periwinkle (барвінок- barvinok) The students studied the flowers, looking at the shapes of the petals, and the different colours of the flower. The considered the composition, and drew their design. As the students worked, they were given feedback, and made many iterations of their design. This can be sometimes hard to take in when we are learning a new skill. Gentle reminders were given to students to always to constructive feedback as “I am learning how to do something, and I will always get better when I keep practicing”. It is always about the “…yet”. I can’t do this, YET. Tomorrow, we will felt! We also worked on our subtraction skills practice. Some students are bringing their booklets home, so check their backpacks. They have been given instructions to compete 1 or 2 pages of their choice (as was the expectation for the hour of practice), and then to bring back tomorrow to go over, and continue. We finished off our day in this glorious weather, first skipping ropes, and then playing on the playground or soccer on the compound. It is GOOD to be in the sunshine. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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