Hello everyone!
Happy Winter Break! We had a very busy day today.
We were working on finishing up our community maps before and after our Pillars of Care assembly. We used our community checklist to make sure our community map had everything a community needs to be successful and then handed them in.
We had our assembly and handed out our awards. We were missing quite a few friends today, so some winners will have to get their awards after the break! At the end of the assembly we sang a few familiar holiday songs together as a school.
After the assembly we filled in our calendar and did some skip counting practice. Then, we got to work on our art project! Yesterday, we had used a tracer to draw a mitten on a piece of watercolour paper. We read a story called "The Mitten Tree" about a lady who knits brand new mittens with different colours and designs, and hangs then on an old oak tree for kids to use when they have no mittens, or have lost theirs. We decided to design our own mitten for the mitten tree.
Today, we started by designing our mitten using a pencil. Once we were happy with our design, we used oil pastels to colour in our design and outline our mitten.
We took a break to have snack and a quick movement break before learning about watercolour paints. Ms. Byrne demonstrated how to use them under our document camera. She showed us how to add water to the paint to get it working, and how to do a "colour wash" over our mitten. It was so cool how the paint didn't colour the oil pastel on her picture! We did some finishing touches on our mittens and then we took turns visiting a painting station to colour wash our mittens. Luckily, watercolour paints dry quickly and we were able to bring them home! Here are some examples of our finished mittens:
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