Snow, Snow and More Snow!!!

We have had 3 days of snowfall .........

and it is a winter wonderland at our school and in our neighborhood!!

Our classes decided that we would create 'structures' in the snow and examine snow as it changed from a solid state to a liquid state!!  We also had some fun in the process!

Do you get snow in your neighborhood?? What is your favorite thing to do in the snow?

Division 10 is full of LOVE

Did you have a fun Valentine's Day?  Division 10 shared our LOVE in our classroom!

This is how we celebrated:

We dressed up in special colors 'from the heart' (red, pink, white).

We created and sent 'warm fuzzy' messages to each of our classmates.  They were then shared and mounted on a special heart that we decorated.

We shared Valentine cards and treats with our friends and classmates.

We made the highest tower we could with candy hearts.

We read Valentine stories.

How did you celebrate Valentine's Day?

Arrrrrg Matey!

The excitement is building -  our school musical, Treasure Island, is coming to Chantrell!
We have been singing and humming Pirate songs and the whole school is getting into the spirit!

Our class has started to read the book Treasure Island.  There are lots of descriptive words in it.
We decided to practice our visualization by taking the words that describe 'the captain', and drawing  how we think he looks.

Here are the adjectives and description from the story:  tall, strong, wears a blue coat, ragged, black and broken fingernails, white scar on cheek, dirty face and dirty, torn clothing.  Try to visualize how he might look.

Here are our visualizations of the captain!  Does he look how you imagined him to look?

Elements of Shape

Have you ever used 'elements of shape' when you were doing art work?  We think you probably have!!
 
In art, we learned about the 5 elements of shape:  straight lines, curved lines, angles, circles and dots.

Here are some examples:

Then we used all 5 elements of shape to design and create a pattern picture 

on the ipad (Draw and Tell).

                                            Can you find all 5 elements in our pattern pictures?

Happy Chinese New Year

On Friday we celebrated Chinese New Year at our school!

In our class we have read about traditional Chinese New Year celebrations.
We made Chinese Theatre masks by designing, drawing, coloring with pastels and adding some glitter. They are colorful and creative! Maybe you would like to try to make one!

Some of the families in our neighborhood came to help us celebrate.  They made special dumplings for our lunch (which are always served at the New Year's dinner).  They were delicious!

In the afternoon, we saw the Dragon Dance!  It was amazing!  The kindergarten students performed the Dragon Dance for us! There was drumming and one of our classmates, George, was the drummer!! He was fantastic!

There was also a Lion Dance performed by some of the grade 7 students.

Some of our talented students performed for us!

In our classroom, we read a story called 'The Seven Chinese Brothers'.  It is a Chinese Fable which has a message.  The brothers always help each other if one of them gets into trouble.  There is a mean Emperor in the story too!  It is a great story, you might like to read it!

Did you celebrate Chinese New Year?  What did you do for your celebration?