"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
Using the quote by Leonardo da Vinci, we tapped into our own feelings to create pieces of art based off poetry we read. First we studied both abstract and real-life art pieces, and discussed the emotions and thoughts we experienced from different pieces. We explored how colour and shapes can elicit certain feelings and emotions, and how even abstract art can resemble real-life objects. Then we read two peices of poetry by Shel Silverstein; Colours and The Voice. Students visualized the poem while listening to them being read out loud. They then used coloured pastels to express the emotions felt from the poem.
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Students completed an observational report for their science fair. First we used our senses to describe air while we were in the classroom. We concluded that when we are inside, we can not see, hear, taste, feel, or smell air. When we went outside though we could see evidence of air through the wind. We could see the wind moving leaves and trees, we could feel the wind on our skin, we could smell emissions from cars, we could hear rustling leaves on the ground. We did decide that we still could not really taste air though.
Wow, we finished reading our first class novel of the year! We came across some very fun new vocabulary words which we have now added to our personal dictionaries, hopefully we will use them in our writing.
Next step will be to complete our reflections and activities for our novel. This was a very interesting and enjoyable first Novel study! We are sorting the new information we have learned about air into a graphic organizer. Our information is sorted into 3 groups; Air is-, Air can-, and Air has-. We are looking forward to adding and changing our organizer as we learn more about air.
The Grade 2 class started their first novel study, The Enormous Crocodile. The focus lesson this week was using prior knowledge about a subject to make predictions about what will happen in a book.
After reading the first couple of pages, we are super excited to see what funny and wacky antics the Enormous Crocodile will get into! The grade 1 and 2 students enjoyed playing a new reading game, Sight Word Bean Bag Toss. They enjoyed making the game more challenging physically by moving the start line further back, and challenging their minds by adding increasingly difficult words to the game.
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