Working with Clay

We worked with Mrs. Kulyk on an art project using clay. The first step was getting a chunk of clay and squishing it into a ball. We had to put our thumb inside the ball and move it around to make a bigger hole so it would look like a pot or bowl. There were tools to use to add designs. You had to use some water to smooth it out and to attach pieces to the clay. If you use too much water it will turn to mud. After we were done making the pots they are going to go to the kiln at Robert Andrews School to be fired. When they are done they will look reddish and be solid as cement. We can’t wait to see them. They will look so amazing! They will be special gifts for .........?

By: Brooke and Mikayla 

Last Day Before Spring Break

Ready for the oven.

Whoa, look how they shrunk in size!

Today at school we got to make some real cool art! Ms. Wasney’s class came and we did it together. Here are instructions on how to make it. 1. Get a piece of this special paper that is like smooth on one side and rough on the other. You can get it at Micheals. 2. Practice your sketch on a piece of loose leaf. 3. Transfer or trace your final sketch in a thin tip sharpie. 4. Colour it in pencil crayon not MARKERS and colour it on the rough side! 5. Put it in the oven and watch it shrink! This art was so cool!  Thanks Mrs. Wasney for the real cool idea for the art! 

We got the puppies! 

Today at the assembly we won the puppy blitzarama! The puppies are really cute their names are Boo, Sprite, Rocko and Jazz! Alyssa in our class won the naming contest, she named Sprite. We got the puppies because classes with no behaviour problems got their names put into a draw and we won the draw! We got them all day and later today we are going to figure out who will get the puppies on the first day coming back to school from spring break!

Michael & Allison in their Day of Pink Tees.

Happy spring break everyone! Don’t forget to wear your day of pink shirts on Wednesday the 9^th! See you back on April 7th!
By Jolene

Print Making

Today we did print making with an artist, Mrs. Kulyk. It was of our animal from our Pourquoi tale.  I did a killer whale, Brooke did a porcupine. Brooke’s title is how the porcupine got its quills and mine was how the killer whale got its white markings. Maybe you can make one too. These are the things you need: 1 piece of square wood, black, red, silver or gold paint, sandpaper, paper, wooden tool, a Styrofoam square that fits the wood, paint roller and a sharpie. These are the steps to make it:

1.    Sand the edges of the wood

2.    Paint your wood either silver or black

3.    Draw your animal on the square piece of paper

4.    Make an outline around your animal

5.    Tape it to the Styrofoam

6.    Go over your animal hard but don’t go through the Styrofoam

7.      Take the tape off and your picture off

8.     Use the wooden tool and go over the lines one more time

9.    Cut it out around your outline that you made around your animal

10.           Get some paint (black, red, silver or gold) on the roller and paint it on your animal

11.           Take your animal and place it face down on the wood

12.           Press it down for 5 seconds then take it off

13.           Now let it dry for about 5 to 7 minutes

14.           Do some touch-ups with the sharpie and sign it

They turned out great! They will be up on the school bulletin board permanently. Come down to see them later this  year. 

By: Alyssa and Brooke J

Birch Tree Artwork

In art we made birch trees. The first step was we had to make tree shapes out of masking tape. Some of us cut the tape to make a thinner trunk. Then out of extra pieces of tape we would make our branches. After that was done we would paint the background with water colour paints but we couldn’t paint to the bottom because the bottom would be our snow. Then we put salt on the paint to give it a cool effect. Once the paint dried we would peel off the tape. After we peeled off the tape we would use pastels but we could only use the black and the grey. First we would use the black and draw lines on the trunk and the branches to make it look like a birch tree. Then we would use the grey to make it have the shadow effect. If we wanted we could add snowflakes. To put the snowflakes we would use a Q-tip or the end of a paint brush. They look so amazing! You can check them out in our hallway and also on Artsonia.
By: Madison

Thanksgiving Leaves

Today we did art and writing. In art we did leaves. It was kind of hard. We had to cut the leaf out then pick are colours then cut them again then we would glue them to the big leaf. I did all the colours that there were. There was red, yellow, brown, beige, green, and orange. Nick did all of the colours too. Mrs.Tresoor had to help a lot of kids because it was so hard to do. When I was done I swept. We wrote what we are thankful for in each section of the leaf. I’m thankful for my family I live with, the house I live under, the school I learn at, the friends I play with and having fresh food and clean water. HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! - By Leah

Earth Day

Vibrant Birds

Hello blog readers today I will tell you about James Rizzi because we did some James Rizzi art. Ms Wasney made these funky birds with her class and we thought it would be a great idea to do it too. James Rizzi was born in New York and he was 61 years old when he died. James Rizzi made paintings of buildings with funny faces on them. He was also famous for his birds. This is how we made our James Rizzi birds. You make the curved part of the head (very top), then the beak, then the body. When you finished all of the body you can make eyes, nose holes, hair and wings. You want to make the eyes big but not too big. You outline the bird with black pastel. When you go to colour the bird in you wet the watercolour paper with water then put watercolours (vibrant colours) on the page. YOU DO NOT COLOUR THE EYES IN just the pupil. The artwork turns out very good. You can see all of our Vibrant Birds here on Artsonia. Thanks for reading stay tuned for the next blog post.

By: Hunter J      







Picasso Art

On Tuesday we read a book about Pablo Picasso. He was an amazing artist. The art we were going to try was called oil pastel faces and our class couldn’t wait because the next day we were going to start the art. On Wednesday we finally got to start the art what we needed to do was get a paper and we needed to make a half a face (profile) then a half eye a nose and half lips then you would make the other side of the full eye (portrait) and a half lip and connect it to the other side of the lips then you will be able to do it in pastel. Then if you were done doing the outline in black pastel then you would take another color and do one side of the face in that color then you would take another color and put it on the other side of the face and then you could do another color on top of that color and make a cool design on the cheek. But if you did that on the other side of the face you would still have to choose a different color then you could scratch a design on the cheek. This art was so neat!   

5T loves art

By: Felicia

Pourquoi Tale Presentations

Today we went to see a few classes do their Pourquoi tale presentations in room 33. Have you ever seen one performed live? Today we watched 6 Pourquoi tale presentations. The first one we watched was our little buddies in grade 1. They did how the deer got its antlers and it was good. Mrs. Wallace’s class did how the black bear got its color! For both the gr.2 and gr.1’s they had two gr.6’s narrating. Lucas and Maxelmae and Terry and Amy were the narrators. The next class was 3M/D and they did why the beaver has a flat tail and it was really good.  After the gr. 3’s then 4D went and they did why wolves howl at the moon they also did a good job on the narrating because they spoke loud. After that it was our turn and we are doing how the buffalo got its horns and our narrators are Hunter and Alex. The animal that I played was the helpful beaver but I had to play beaver too because Colin is away. That was it for the morning but we did more in the afternoon. In the afternoon we saw Mrs. Henry’s class and narrating for them was Ashleigh and Dana. We also saw Ms. Wasney’s class and they had really good masks. The part I enjoyed the most was probably the masks. Wow what a great way to end our AAA project with these great presentations! Here is a video of our Pourquoi Tale.
- By Ryan

Mask Making

For our AAA project each class wrote a Pourquoi Tale. First each class picks a question and in your story you have to answer your question. All the questions are about animals. Our classes question is how the buffalo got its horns. In your story there are two rules: no humans and the animals have to be Manitoba animals. After you write your story you get to make masks for your animal. Before we made our animals we had to sketch it out. We got to pick our animals. Some people have to make their animal have an expression. My animal is the buffalo and I don’t have to make an expression. There are five people playing the buffalo but just different expressions. There was lots of craft stuff to use. I used wool for the fur, beads for the eyes, cardboard for the ears, and a container, ribbon, and tissue paper for the snout. There were lots of other things you could use too like feathers, bells, egg cartons, cotton balls, pastels, Styrofoam balls, popsicle sticks, pipe cleaners, and jewels. Lots of people were really creative and used lots of different materials. Soon we will be presenting our story to different classes and going to see different class’s stories. I can’t wait to see what the other classes stories are!      By Renee

Winter Wonderland!

Little Buddies

Today for little buddies we read a poem called, "The Owl" and we made paper owls. It was great to see the students read the poem with actions and create their owl. Thanks Ms Wasney for sharing this activity with us!
- Mrs. T. :)

Spooktacular Silhouettes!

In art ….

Part 1 à  We made a sunset with the colours yellow, orange, red, blue, green, purple and black. You use the colours to make it look like a sunset. But first you have to put water all over the paper. Then you put the colour in the order you want. I started with yellow on the bottom. It is really cool when the colours blend.

Part 2 àYou cut out black construction paper and make haunted house, black cats, owls, trees, moons, ghosts and fences. You can make as many as you want. You want to file up you page. You place them out on your page and glue them on. You also have white paper and yellow paper. So some people used the yellow paper in the window and door. As Riley says, the silhouettes look amazingly awesome!

Check here to see our work on Artsonia.

By Faith

What's new?

Here's a peek into Room 30. A few students volunteered to talk about some things we have been doing over the last few days. Their comments were videotaped and have been included in our Animoto! Thanks for sharing. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend everyone! Gobble....gobble.

 

Funny Happenings

Today we are all finishing our name art. That is when we write our names on a paper in weird ways. Some letters have to touch the top and some had to touch the side or bottom. Then after all that was done you got to make some designs on it in all the spaces.  We had put some in the display case in the front of the school.

But before all that happened we had French. We were in the middle of French when Mrs. Dehn came in with her French dog named Louie. So then some of the class started to laugh because we were in French and she said Louie was a French dog. Some of the class was wondering if the dog could talk in French! Louie looked like an Oreo cookie. He looked like a yummy one too. Hope I get to see him again.

                                                                                                    - By Hunter

                                                                                        

Motion and Action Art

This week at school we had Mrs. Kulyk do a special art project with us to go with our science unit. We called it motion and action art. We started with a paper drawing ovals to loosen up our hands. We used these ovals to make gesture drawings. After we started with a peice of wire, then we shaped it to what we wanted the figures position to be. After we shaped it we put on tin foil, tape and plasticine to give it a bigger body. On the same day we put paris craft on it. We let it harden until Friday and we painted in the morning. I built a lacrosse goalie because that is what I am. I think everyone had lots of fun because I know I did. I would do it again in a heart beat. Enjoy the video of our project.       - By Ethan

Father's Day Art

 

For Fathers Day we made a gift on comic life. It had information about, reasons why my Dad is great, cool facts about my Dad, and things my Dad has taught me. We also used water colour makers on some special paper then once we were done making a cool desine on the card we took a wet paint brush and would pull on one of the lines and it would make it look like the colour is spreading across the paper. I think that this will be the best Fathers Day for every Father in the world.

-Connor

Mother's Day Reactions

On Mother’s Day everyone gave the cards, and gazettes we made to our mothers. Many had different reactions, but they all loved the gifts that we put so much work into. Now I will tell you about how our moms reacted when they saw these wonderful gifts. My mom got her card a little bit late because I went to Minneapolis and forgot her card. Luckily she didn’t mind. When she read the gazette she couldn’t stop laughing because it was mostly humorous. When she saw the card she also laughed because it was also quite humorous. When Jessica’s mom read the gazette she cried and when she read the card she laughed. Connor’s mom cried, Cameron’s mom cried, and Nick’s mom cried. Ashton’s mom also cried but she said it was just allergies. There were also a lot of moms that were surprised! Like Tobi’s mom who said “Oh my goodness that is so pretty I can’t believe you did this!” Or William’s mom who said “Oh my gosh that’s so sweet.” Each mom reacted a little bit different, but the facts show that all the moms love their gifts and their kids.

-Dana    

Earth Day Collages

For Earth Day we made Earth Day collages. The collages were about something that is important to our earth or something we love about our earth. It was so fun to make the art. To make the art we used all recyclable materials, like fabric, buttons, felt and newspaper. It was cool to see all the different designs and things people were doing. Mine was a flower with a worm and buttons at the bottom to look like rocks. With newspaper I cut out the letters to spell “save our earth”. It was so great to see all the wonderful things we love about are earth. The earth is in our hands! So let’s take care of it! You can see more of our collages on Artsonia  - Abby M.



"No scraps were wasted!"

AAA Art with Mrs. Kulyk

On Wednesday, February 29 we had an art class with Mrs.Kulyk. It was for an Aboriginal story called Nanabosho and the Butterflies by Joe McLennan and Matrine McLennan that we have to present to people. We had people working on masks,butterflies,backgrounds,blankets and leaves. The story was about 2 babies who never did anything by themselves. They had 8 brothers and sisters who loved them very much and picked them up when they were crying, find them food when they needed food and change them when they were wet. When Nanabosho herd these babies crying he went to find them. When he found them they were laying on the ground crying. Theyre mother was sitting on a rock near by. Nanabosho asked the mother why she was letting them lay there and cry. She said because they have 8 brothers and sisters who love them very much and will do anything for them. Nanabosho asked where they were the mother said I have sent them on errands that will take them all day Nanabosho asked why. The mother said because they never do anything for themselves but cry. So I brought them here so they might do something for themselves.Nanabosho asked if he could help and the mother said as long as you dont pick them up. So Nanabosho took a blanket out of his pack and took some crunched up leaves and spread them out on the blanket,and through them up in the air and the twins stopped crying. he did it again the twins rolled on to there stomachs. He kept on doing it and finally the twins started to walk and the leaves turned into beutiful butterflies. The twins started chasing them and the butterflies flew all over the world and will always bring joy and laghfter to children all over the world. this took us 4 periods to finish all the art. I think everybody had a really fun time making things and helping out because I know I did. Because Riley Mitchell and I made leaves and had to glue gun them onto a blanket.This blanket represents the blanket that Nanabosho pulled out of his pack and threw the leaves up in the air with. I also think that the people working on masks did really well because they look really good. I enjoyd it because I got to work with my friends while I do something that I really like. 
 By Ethan