Assembly practice continues...

Our schedule continues to be a bit different over the next couple of weeks until our Learning Celebration! Today Mrs. Boyer worked with different groups to teach them their lines and our dance moves. We had fun! The dance was a part of our gym and then we went outside.

We were together to practice our songs and learn the words - we are trying to show emotion on our faces if the song is happy, a little sad or super exciting! We are learning that actors can show a lot of different emotion but are still in control and listen to the director when they say, "All quiet on the set!" Please check Mrs. Boyer's blog (Room 2) to find the links to our songs so you can practice at home! Mrs. Boyer and Mr. O'Reilly have adapted some of the lyrics to Good Day Sunshine, Somewhere Only We Know by Lily Allen, and Born to be Wild, so it's important to listen and learn the right words. 

We discussed story writing today and how important it is to have a plan before we start writing. This keeps us on track. Our stories will be all about animals on Nose Hill to show what we have learned about their habitat, appearance, food, family, predators and survival. Today we thought about which animals we wanted to write about, an interesting beginning, a problem and how the animal fixes the problem (the middle) and what it learns (the end). Over the next few weeks, we will learn that writing stories takes time! We will add details and edit by ourselves, with a friend or two or three and get some more ideas and make our stories even better!

If we are in the Run 2K Club, we ran again at lunch. It was hot, so we made sure we took a break in the shade and had a drink if we needed to...we are over 200km - hurray!

We had Sketching after lunch. We added some more shading to our sketches and then Ryder taught us about PERSPECTIVE, HORIZON LINE and VANISHING POINT. Ask me what I remember about those words! Then we worked on drawing ONLY WHAT WE SEE by looking at scissors on our desk and drawing without lifting our pencil or looking at our paper. Then we looked at our friend and tried to draw their face without looking at our pencil or paper. It was really tricky!! Ryder told us this was a good way to practice being artists that observe instead of just using our imagination (which is a different kind of drawing.)

Music - we practiced our songs again! Ask me which one is my favorite!

We read a story called Daisy Comes Home by Jan Brett. Ask me to tell you about the beginning, middle and end and who the characters were.

Tomorrow Mrs. Armour will be away celebrating her daughter's grade 12 graduation! We are excited that Mr. O will be coming in to teach us!

Thanks to all of you who have returned your Nose Hill Field Trip forms. Please bring them tomorrow if you haven't. 

 Ryder is showing us about perspective - and how to sketch things that are close and far away.

                            Here is a peek at just a couple of our backgrounds we are working on!