Urban Reflections

We are learning about different communities in our world, specifically urban and rural communities. 

We now are familiar with several Calgary landmarks and, inspired by these, we created cityscapes that incorporated the Bow River and a landmark using Mr. Sketch markers and water.  They are dazzling!

 

Grade Ones Travel Back in Time to Fort Calgary...

Students traveled back in time to train as North West Mounted Police officers, learning how to stand at ease, salute, fall out, and take the oath.

Students worked cooperatively to build a log cabin, complete with a sod roof!

As characters from Calgary's past, students participated in a train ride from Red Deer to Calgary, where a real-life event was re-enacted, with the help of students actors and actresses ;)

We wrote about our adventures back in our classroom and, using transparency images of our characters, a little bit of water colour and a steam train, we shared some of our memories from our trip back in time!

Making Sense of Our Senses - Optical Illusions

We have learned how we use our five senses of hearing (ears), sight (eyes), touch (through our skin), taste (tongue), and smell (nose) to make sense of our world.  We learned how our senses can sometimes trick us, through experiments with smelling and taste.  We completed an optical illusion art project, combining primary and secondary colours, patterns, fine motor skills of tracing and cutting and tissue paper art.  Do you see the vase holding a flower or the silhouetted profiles of two faces?  Students also created I Spy...mini-books, creating clues using their senses.