This week, the students combined art and science as they made three dimensional sculptures using tinfoil. The students created a human form, manipulating the foil to create moveable limbs. The students then posed the human form in a position reflecting a movement or activity that they enjoy. We had goalies, dancers, gymnasts and more. This reflected the art curricular objective: exploring sculpture as a means of making three-dimensional forms. The students then used a flashlight to capture a shadow of their form. This connected to the science objective: students will recognize that opaque materials cast shadows.
Despite the rain, the grade fours had a fantastic time on our field trip to Heritage Park. It was wonderful to experience all of our learning in Social Studies first hand. We sheltered from the rain in a tipi, felt beaver pelts as we learned about the fur trade and rode a train like the ones that helped to make settlement in the West possible. Seeing the first settler homes, the "soddies", homes that housed families with sixteen children and sandstone buildings helped the students to better understand what life was like for early settlers. Most are happy that they are able to go to a school with hundreds of students and one grade per classroom rather than a one room schoolhouse of the past!
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