TWAS

Haley's all set to share her
portfolio!

Step 1 of our art job!

 This week at school (Monday) we did step 1 in art. We did Birch trees. Step one was: we had to put tape going the long way on a piece of paper. Those were the trees. We could put 1, 2, 3 or 4 maybe more trees if they can fit. We also put branches on the trees. I did 2 trees.   Then we painted the sky. Before we painted we had to make sure the tape was pressed down good so that the paint wouldn’t leak under the tape. The colours we used were magenta, dark blue, turquoise blue, fuscia and violet. I used turquoise, dark blue and violet. Then while it was still wet we put salt on it to make a texture when it dries. We also did portfolios. We had to write out reflection tags for each subject. Except for health and music. Those two were optional! Then we went to the computer lab. We did All the Right Type. It’s a really cool and fun typing program to teach students how to type properly!

Step 2 of our art job!

On Tuesday we did step two of our Birch tree art. We had to brush off all of the salt in the garbage can. Then we had to take off the tape pulling it towards us. Some paint leaked through but then Madison said that it looked like frost on the branches. It did look a lot like frost. Then we had to put black stripes on the trees with a black oil pastel. When we were done we had to use a grey oil pastel as a shadow on the tree. But we could only put the shadow on one side of the tree otherwise it wouldn’t look good. Then we did more portfolio stuff. We did a two minute multiplication paper. We had to do as many as we could in two minutes. There were 60 questions on the paper. I did 31 questions. I got one wrong though. Then we did a handwriting sample. We had to write everything in handwriting. The thing we had to write was what we liked in term 1. Then we had gym. We played a game called capture the pin. It’s like capture the flag except with a pin.

On Wednesday we had word work Wednesday! The word was Scoreboard. We had to make smaller words from that word. But first we had to figure out the big 10 letter word. Hannah figured out the big word. Then we did math. We all played a game called around the world. Someone would start and go to someone in the classroom. Then Ms. Wasney would say a multiplication question and who ever got it right would get to keep going around that table. If they beat everyone at that table then that person would pick a different table and if they made it to every table then they made it around the world. I made it to 2 tables. Nobody made it around the world though. Then we did a classroom clean-up. Some people cleaned the library bins and some people did the board games. Other people cleaned their tote trays. I cleaned my tote tray. It was kind of messy.

On Thursday we are doing TWAS on the netbooks. Then we had a Christmas concert choir practice. We are singing two songs called “Masters in this Hall” and “Aidemus.”Then we are going to do our portfolios. We will share them with a partner. Some people have their parent teacher today and some people have it tomorrow on Friday.

On Friday we have NO SCHOOL!!!!!

By Haley