Paint My School Contest

Recently a parent in the school community

sent me some information about a contest that CBC's

North by Northwest was hosting.  The contest was
for students to draw a picture of what they liked
about their school and to briefly explain why they
chose to create their image.  The prize was a book
written by Katherine Gibson and Margriet Ruurs,
about Canadian painter Ted Harrison, called
"A Brush Full of Colour:  The World of Ted
Harrison".  We were one of ten schools around the
province that won!  Ty Sivak's picture of the apple
was picked as a winner!  Congratulations Ty!
And thank you to Carole Duffy who gave us the
idea to enter the contest-she knew we had
studied Ted Harrison's art last year and she also
knows we like to enter contests!  We are looking
forward to the book arriving for our school
library.

Enjoy!

A friend of mine sent me this short video.  It is a good reminder for all of us about how different we all are and how we all learn differently.  Enjoy!

https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/videos/1125589420815248/

Halloween mural

Halloween stations are always so

fun!  I adopted Kim's mural idea from

last year.  This is the haunted house

designed by all the students of The

Annex.

Monster math

This was such a fun lesson!  Ms. Conklin,

Ms. Lui and myself got together on one

of our Pro D days and designed this

lesson.  Frankenstein's monsters all

had eye infections and they needed

eye drops.  The students decided how

many eyes their monsters would have

and how many eye drops they needed

in each eye.  Then they did the math

to solve the problem.  Very fun combining

art and math!

Pumpkin Math

First we worked together to carve our pumpkins.

Then we estimated the number of seeds we had.

Next we chose a referent number (an exact number

of seeds to refer to) and we made piles that looked

like our referent pile.  Then we skip counted an

approximate number of seeds.  And finally,

we had some fantastically creative pumpkins to decorate

our classroom!