Today is Gallery Day and I can’t wait to share the wild work of our students with you all. I am happy to hear how many of you are enjoying “The Wild Robot” read aloud — and across all grades! Peter Brown has truly written a special story. We have “The Wild Robot Escapes” in our library learning commons too, an FYI. 😉
Here is a sneak peak of today’s awesome-sauceness:
Our École Mount Prevost’s ESW students’ wild robots, found in the wild, Grades K – 5:
MH, Grade 1, Wild Robot diorama:
I will add all to the work to the Student Gallery page by 3 pm today. If your child has work they would like to submit, please know I will accept work at any time, there is no deadline. The only reason I post at 3 on Fridays is to have as much work as possible revealed at once. I will however, add student work anytime after.
The weather has been so beautiful over the last couple of weeks! Mother nature is begging us to go outside. Today, why not go outside and practice drawing the wildflowers on the sidewalk?
Image source: Coopet Photography
Don’t have any sidewalk chalk? No problem! How fun would it be to make your own with items you can find in the kitchen? Check out this DIY recipe here from Books and Giggles. All you need is cornstarch, food colouring and water!
I made my own sidewalk chalk paint from old chalk I had lying around the house. I followed the instructions from Rhythms of Play:
Mme Zibin’s old IKEA chalk
Following the instructions, I crushed my chalk in a Ziploc bag with a mallet and made some brilliant coloured chalk powder:
I turned old chalk into chalk powder!
I then slowly added water and mixed the powder to create lovely sidewalk chalk paint. It was really interesting to see how the chalk powder changed colours. The bright pink turned into a true red when I added the water.
My homemade sidewalk chalk paint!
I then loaded up my supplies and headed outside!
My tray of sidewalk chalk supplies is ready to go!
Sidewalk Chalk Fun
I found so many beautiful ideas online for sidewalk chalk art featuring flowers:
Image source: Coopet Photography
I love the idea of interactive chalk art!
Why not incorporate an inspirational message into your artwork?
I love the chalk message from some of our students at École Mount Prevost:
Notes of encouragement from our ESW students.
In my neighbourhood, today is garbage and recycling day. To continue with my theme of gratitude and thanks, I left a special chalk message for our North Cowichan sanitation workers:
Mme Zibin’s thank you made with her very own homemade chalk paint!
I had to work quickly because I knew my garbage would be picked up soon. When the chalk dries, I will go back outside and add some detail to my flowers. I also have two grocery deliveries today so the “thank you” will go a long way!
Today, get outside and leave something special for others on the pavement. I would love to see what you create! If you would like to share your pictures, please see the “Submitting Student Work” tab on the blog main page. Email me your submissions to me at dzibin@sd79.bc.ca. Gallery Day is tomorrow – I’d love to share your creativity!
I’ve posted three videos today: How to draw a forget-me-not flower (introduced species), a daisy flower (introduced species) and a dandelion flower (introduced species). You can follow along with one video or you can try them all! At the end of the post, I share how we can help spread kindness to others with our flower doodle art.
1. The Forget-me-not (le myosotis)
Mme Zibin found a Wood Forget-me-not in her neighbourhood.
In the first video, I show you how to draw a forget-me-not wildflower in doodle form. Bear with me — it’s the first how-to video I have ever made in my entire life and I made mistakes. However, mistakes are good; they are First Attempts In Learning (FAIL) and are natural when you try something new.
Click on the picture below to access the first how-to video:
In the second video, I show you how to draw a common daisy wildflower in doodle form. I found that my second video went a bit smoother for me and was easier to film than my first one. Yay to progress!
Click on the picture below to access the second how-to video:
In the third video, I will show you how to draw a dandelion wildflower (or weed, as some adults call it) in doodle form. I found that my third video was the easiest to make. However, I made a French mistake in the video and called a dandelion “le dent de lion” when it is actually called “le pissenlit”.
Click on the picture below to access the third how-to video:
Now that we have drawn all these doodles, what can we do with them?
Make Somebody’s Day Brighter – with Art!
In the story we read on Monday, Sidewalk Flowers, Tally gives little gifts of wildflowers to the people around her. Right now we can’t give as easily with proper social distancing, but we can still spread joy and happiness.
Signs I made of flower doodles to show kindness to others.
Using my flower doodles, I made a thank you sign for my mail delivery person:
My community mailbox with my floral doodle sign for the mail delivery person.
I made another sign for the people who delivers my groceries:
My grocery delivery cooler is a little more cheerful now with my flower doodle thank you sign.
Who’s day can you make a little brighter with your flower doodles? I’d love to hear who you shared your art with. I’d also love to see your art! If you would like to share your pictures, please see the “Submitting Student Work Tab” on the blog main page. Email your submissions to me at dzibin@sd79.bc.ca
I hope you enjoyed drawing with me! I will see you here tomorrow for sidewalk drawing.
We miss our students. We miss their smiles, their funny anecdotes, their brilliant ideas and the laughs we share together. To show our students and their families how much we miss them, our staff created a video message to offer encouragement during this time.
We hope our students know that their social and emotional needs are most important to their teachers. We hope we make them smile.
