As you may remember we had a wonderful sunny day on Monday. We went to the forest to collect things that fall from trees. We came back with a large and varied collection of items.
We found pine and fir cones, leaves as well as bits of branches. We also collected moss and lichen that the children found interesting.
On Tuesday we read a book about the forest "L'arbre: Un petit monde plein de vie", This book explains everything from how a tree grows to the animals who live in and around trees and including how trees give back to the soil and nurture new growth after they die. The children then used magnifying glasses to look in detail at the items we had gathered and drew 3 items in detail.
Wednesday morning the children went back to the collection and pick items to play with to make a story about the forest. These stories came home earlier this week. Some children wrote fictional stories while other children chose to write about what they saw in the forest.
Thursday we learned about Emily Carr and looked at many of the paintings she painted of the BC forest and trees. We talked about the colours that she used as well as the shapes and kind of lines we can see in her paintings.
On Friday we looked at the paintings one more time. The students then did a quick pencil sketch of a tree. We then got out our pastels for the first time and using the inspiring paintings we had been looking at, the children coloured their trees. Their artwork is the cover of the cards they are making to go in the bags for the homeless in our area. I took a picture of all the cards so you can see their lovely work.
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| A few of the paintings that inspired us. |
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| Hard at work |
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| Everyone's work is a bit different |
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| Beginning to add sky |
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| All 23 cards! |
