Harris- Grade 3 Ramsay

This week started on a creative exploration using glass as the medium. Thanks to Clay for Kids, we learned how to make beautiful glass fusion art. We were able to use our book "The Tree in Me" as our inspiration. We discovered how to make a glass birch tree and choose which season we wanted to represent. The students were great at listening to some very detailed directions and showing a growth mindset while taking on this new art form. We are all excited to see how our glass panels turned out once they have been heated in the kiln.  I can show my ability to learn and try a new way of representing an image using a different art medium. I can accept and apply feedback  I can share materials  For the past few weeks, we have also been working on a Social Studies project that helps us understand and highlight landmarks that make our city unique. Each of us chose a specific landmark in Calgary and expressed our appreciation for that landmark, sketched it and discovered an unkno...

The story of Emily Carr was a sure way to inspire our class and connect our learning to our focus book  The Tree in Me  by Corinna Luyken. Despite being scoffed at by her older sisters for her desire to do her art, Emily Carr did not give up. Instead, she was true to herself and profoundly impacted the Canadian art scene. Like many of the Group of Seven artists, Emily’s work was inspired by Canada’s natural rugged world and indigenous landscapes of the west coast. We created a thoughtful piece that used tints, shades, foreground, mid-ground, and background as a class. We also explored warm and cool colour theory. We spent some time thinking about the words, descriptions, and emotions associated with warm and cool colours. We discovered that warm colours are often associated with happy, joyful emotions. They are linked to sunshine, the daytime, and summer and autumn. Cool colors can be used to express sad, calm, and tranquil emotions. They can be linked to water, nighttime, and...