Day 1 & 2:
Arts Week kicked off on Sunday 13th October with
the wonderful Preschool 5 event. They celebrated their first Unit ‘Communities’
by performing a song and dance about the various jobs and roles of people in
our community. The showcased their learning from Spanish class and Arabic class
by presenting what they want to be when they grow up through the different
languages. The parents then joined the students for a painting task, where they
created watercolour paintings of themselves inspired by the title ‘When I grow
up, I want to be….’.
On Monday 14th October, Grade 1 began the day
with an exciting presentation of what they learned throughout their unit ‘Let’s
Stay Healthy’. They performed a song that they had prepared in music class with
Ms. Jenny. This was followed by some interactive games and exercises that the
students had invented in groups in P.E. class. In art class, the children had
created clay sculptures of the healthy foods that can be found on a ‘balanced
plate’. During their arts week celebration, they painted their clay sculptures
together with their parents.
On Monday afternoon, Grade 2 took to the stage to present the learning and ideas they had developed during their unit ‘Patterns’. To begin, they performed some awesome gymnastic routines they had prepared in groups to various songs in P.E. class. This was followed by a musical performance inspired by the patterns the students had observed in the Star Wars theme song. Following their performances, the students brought their parents outside to participate in a colourful and creative ‘Tie-Dye’ workshop. They showed them the different ways Tie-Dye can be used to produce patterns on clothing and they each created their own Tie-Dye t-shirt to take home.
Day 3:
On Tuesday, Grade 3 began the day with an awesome performance of the song ‘One Day We’ll Be Together’. Their unit was ‘Our Place in the World’ and they had choreographed a routine made of traditional dance moves from their home countries. Following their performance, their parents joined them to take part in two stations. Their music station was a traditional stick game from New Zealand. This was followed by an art station where they created drawings inside maps of their home country celebrating its cultures and traditions, and then painted them with watercolours.
Day 4:
The Preschool 3 students had their arts week showcase on
Wednesday morning. The students celebrated the completion of their unit
“Me and My Family” by participating in a visual art activity with their
parents. Students had an outline of their body which they were able to
paint and get creative with feathers, googly eyes, and other decorations.
The end result was colourful and fun for parents and students alike.
For the Grade 5 Arts Week activities on Wednesday afternoon,
Grade 5 had an amazing culmination to their “Literature Unit” that really
highlighted their flair for drama. After reading the novel, The Secret
Garden, the students came up with their own skits which contained many
connections to the novel. They performed these for parents in the
auditorium, working together with their classmates to create very engaging
scenes that were at times funny, mysterious, or even spooky. For their
visual art activity, they painted Modroc masks they had designed and built in
art class. The masks were characters they invented based on the theme “If you
go down to the woods today…”
Day 5:
On Friday morning, Preschool 4 had their Arts Week presentation
which showcased some of their learning from their unit ‘All About Me’. They
sang and danced to a wonderful song about body language, celebrating all the
things they learned about their body parts and the things they can do. For their
art station, they created mosaic art with their parents. Each child and their
parents made a drawing of one of their interests or something they like. Then
they filled their shapes using brightly coloured pieces of paper.
For the Grade 4 Arts Week celebration, each performance and
presentation was inspired by their unit ‘Conflict Resolution’. The Grade 4 students entered the stage wearing
some creative and colourful t-shirts they had designed themselves by painting
symbols of peace with fabric paint. They sang a beautiful song they had
prepared in music class entitled ‘Light a Candle for Peace’. The atmosphere was
heartwarming, with the main hall lights turned off and each student holding a
battery operated candle. After their performance, the students brought their
parents around 4 art stations. They painted a brick to build into a peace wall,
they made portraits of peacemakers they had researched, they created a ‘peace
around us’ mural and they created chalk pastel backgrounds that they wrote
inspiring quotes about peace onto.
