Friday January 14 Day 2

We started the day off by playing floor hockey with Mr. Costa for Gym class.   When returned to class we graphed the temperature, read the morning message, and selected our cluster choices.  Each student was asked to choose 3 things that interested them and not to choose something they did last year.     After that we started our letters to our penpals.   

After recess, we worked to complete any unfinished math activities.   We still have some catch-up to do next week.    

After lunch we did art.   Today we looked at Vincent van Gogh, the post-impressionist.  We talked about his art, his life with mental illness and how his art became famous after he died.   His work focused on colour and mood.   We focused on the painting "Starry Night."     We watched a youtube video that looked a variety of his famous paintings and was set the the song "Starry Starry Night", by Don McLean.   We used blue construction paper and oil pastels to create our art inspired by this famous painting.



Area 203's oil pastel artwork inspired by van Gogh



Jonah uses colour effectively to convey a mood.

Mikayla follows the technique very closely.

REMINDER:   Skating on Thursday January 20.   It is necessary that everyone on the ice have a helmet.
                        TSO forms, $5 and now the media release forms need to be returned.

HOMEWORK:     Complete rough copy of letter to your penpal. 
                              Study Spelling Lesson 16
                              Read. Read.Read.