UOI: Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a relaxing break. The students have come back ready to learn and work. They are showing great enthusiasm for the chance to express themselves through art. They have started to think about the ways in which artists find their inspiration and choose a medium to create. While inquiring through online resources, books, and their own imaginations, they began recording their inspirations in their art sketch book. Today, they will continue to plan their designs and make lists of supplies they will need to begin their creations.
Maths: While exploring the aspects of geometry, the students are beginning to make discoveries and connections. They are identifying how shapes and patterns in mathematics are found and used in art. They have used their knowledge of shapes and patterns to begin making tessellation patterns using regular polygons.
Literacy: Over the last several weeks, the students have been orally re-telling fairy tales, thinking about the structure and plot, retelling in their own words using dialogue and expression. They have been studying how fractured fairy tales compare to the classics and have identified the various elements needed to make a good story. They have also begun to see how authors make changes in the story to craft an adaptation to the classic story. They have begun to create their own adaptation of a classic fairy tales and will continue through the writing process to create their very own, original fractured fairy tale. More to come.....