The Big Show...

We had our last visit with Mr. Romaine on Tuesday.  The puppets were ready to go and the students had practiced their presentation with their partner.  Mr. Romaine showed us how to use the overhead projector to produce stage lighting.  He also provided some music on the ukulele to introduce each play.  Then, we were off.  Take a peek at some of our puppets in action.

A doctor and a taxi driver...

A chef and a crossing guard...

A peek "backstage"...

A firefighter and a dentist...

When all students had a chance to preform, Mr. Romaine and Wiarton Willy asked the students some great questions to solidify all the learning they had done about community helpers.  We were all big fans of Wiarton Willy...

Thank you Mr. Romaine for teaching us about community helpers, puppets, preforming for an audience, but most of all reminding us why we ALL should strive to help others in our community.

Taking Shape...

Miss Suzanne was back for our second L.T.T.A. visit.  This visit focused on creating animal "structure" sculptures using paper.  Miss Suzanne gave us some ideas on how we could use the paper to create a strong structure.

The students chose an animal to create, and then twisted, scrunched, folded and rolled the paper to make a strong animal structure.

When Miss Suzanne visits next week, the students will begin decorating their paper animal sculptures.  We can't wait to see their creations!

Dancing and Mapping??

We have been having an amazing time with Miss Louise - our LTTA artist.  LTTA stands for Learning Through The Arts.  This is an amazing program that allows school to partner with artists to help students learn about curriculum topics, but using the arts.  Our focus has been Social Studies - Mapping.

Miss Louise has helped us to understand how we use maps, and what important places are on maps.  The students have not only been dancing, but creating their own dances and performing them for each other.  We have one visit left this week - and we will be sad to see Miss Louise go.  However, the dance techniques and mapping skills she has taught us will be hard to forget!

(Sorry some of the pictures are a bit blurry - it's hard to catch how quickly they were dancing!)