Art: color math

The art students learned about primary and secondary colours by doing art math. For example red + yellow = orange. Each student explored color combing and were able to create their own color knowledge.

Art: Found Objects

The grade 5 students were challenged to create a piece of art that interacted with an object from their house. This was a great activity to help students expand their creative thinking and problem solving skills. Here are some examples from our lesson.

Dance: How’s the weather

We are learning about the weather in class. So we decided that we would all paint our favourite kind of weather. As you can tell by the video, lots of students had their minds on snow. But we also had a bit of rain, a tornado, and a storm on mars! To add to our...

Creating galaxies

As the students continue to explore Force and natural laws in their unit of inquiry we began to construct paintings of galaxies. Our hope is to pair these with our dances for an integrated art and movement video.

Art: playing with symmetry

The grade 3 students explored the concept of symmetry while playing with paint. Giving students time to play with an artistic medium helps them create a knowledge bank of techniques that work for them. As the students explored with paint they became aware of brush...