Crazy Hat, face painting and Hot Lunch day

Today Parent Council organized a Pita hot lunch and then added crazy hat and face painting to the day. We loved how the students showed up with original homemade hats. Thanks to the parents who helped the students make the hats and a big thank you to Ms. Mulder and Ms. Chirstianson for organzing and hand out our lunches.

Grade 6 Visual Arts

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The grade 6 class has been working with Shelbi Noble ( a visual arts student from MHC). They have been exploring elements of a story. Over the course of the last five Tuesdays the class has developed character, plot, setting and conflict in cooperative learning groups. They have looked at painting and tried to guess what the story behind the painting was and then moved into developing a short story as a class.
The video attached is an example of what they have developed.

Thanks Shelbi for showing how Art and Language Arts work together to tell a story.

Dr. Seuss- creatures

After Ms. Nicoll's explanation and looking at the pictures on the smart board we started to sketch our creatures. We were to remember that our creatures needed to have faces, heads, feet and bodies. We were to use many colors and then we shade in the background. How can you not have fun drawing Dr. Seuss creatures? Thanks Cody

Art- Riverside Style

With Dr. Seuss day soon approaching the students started an exploration of the characters and colors that are used in his books. This activity was a multi-graded afternoon- grade 1,3,4,5,6 participated. We look forward to the finished pictures.

What is a circut?

What is a circut? Grade 4/5 are experimenting with what is needed to make a circut.

Leadership and Community

Riverside School beleives that leadership and community are very important. The grade 6 class is working with the grade ones on both. The reading buddies program that we have enables every students the opportunity to lead and model the qualities that we all want to see in our students. The grade ones get to know the grade six students better and therefore develop  friendships.

Curling = math + science

Grade 5 started their angles unit today in math. Curling is a great way to introduce angles and then throw in a little science about weight and friction. Students caught on very quickly. Next lesson we will see if they can make the rocks in the house have certain angles to each other and the outside of the house.