Artists in the Schools

This week our classroom is participating in the Artists in the Schools program. We are learning all about film making. Each day we spend about 30 minutes with two film makers learning about acting, directing, and filming. Here are some pictures from our first two sessions:

On our first day we learned all about the frame. We used paper frames to frame our subject. The directors told the actors what to do in the frame.

On our second day we learned

about 5 different kinds of shots - the close-up, the extreme close-up, the long shot, the wide shot and the medium shot.

 

Stay tuned for more information about the rest of our week!

This Week At School

Kaelan brot a globe to school and it talks to us. It came with a pen. We got candy 2 days in a row. We sow a play called kids on the blok and it was FUN! We met the artist in the school. We made a video. We have a stategie that is called CHUNKY MONKEY it is a good strategy to ues.  today is jersey day.
-Evan & Wallace

The Awesome (Frisbee) Toboggan!!!

We went slliding on a frisbee at recess. It wos the fastist ever. It  is awesome! Even  ar  techr  tried  it.
We did it in the front. Mabe you can tri it at home if you have a mineu  frisbee.
by Lindsay and  Ashley

Kids on the Block

Yesterday we saw a puppet show by Kids on the Block. They brought 5 giant puppets and did 3 different plays. The plays were about learning disabilities, blindness, and bullying.

Haiku By Room 2

Puppy is Back

by Amy

Puppy is back, yay!

Here he comes to school today

Puppy is back, yay!

I Like Lego

by Peyton C

Playing with Lego

Building Lego Star Wars ships

Battle the bad guys

Playing with Sandro

by Dante

Playing with Sandro

Movies, hockey, catch a ball

I love my brother

I Love Puppies

by Jessica

Puppies wag their tails

They are really soft and cute

They are really sweet

Poetry Writing

This week we have begun a new writing project... POETRY! We have been reading poetry and now we are poets too! Today we read the book "Dogku".

The whole book is written in Haiku. We talked about how a haiku poem has 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second and 5 in the third. Andrew Clements put a note at the end of the book where he said that a haiku is like a small container and that "choosing a small container can help you pick the perfect words and arrange them just right". Some of us got hooked on Haiku. We will post some of our writing next week!

-Room 2

TWAS

This week at school we designed birdfeeders. Our whole class made one. We brougt our own stuff from the recycling box. We shared our stuff. We took pictures of our birdfeeders with us. We published our comic life. We went to the computer lab & put speech bubbles on our comic life. We read a poem called Dogku. It was saying 5 syllables in 1 row & 7 in another row & 5 in the last row. The dogs name was Mooch. We also did an art project with shapes. We had a big piece of paper & we drew shapes. We needed to draw a square & a rectangle a triangle and a circle. We coulden't make circle out of tape so Mrs. Malkoske gave us circle stickers. Then we painted our shapes. We got to take the circle stickers of but Mrs.Malkoske took the tape off. We got to choose if we wanted warm colours or cold. Amy chose cold colours & Hayden chose warm. If we chose cold we would leave 1 for warm colours. If we chose warm colours we would leave 1 for cold colours. They were beautiful!!! We had math centres. 1 ,was we rolled a dice & 1dice had 10's & 1 had 1's. We had really fun!!       
                                                 From, Amy& Hayden