Earth Day Activities!

This week, BHS is celebrating Earth Day with a different activity each day! Today, we had a morning meeting and shared ways we could help the Earth. It was a great brainstorming session to lead up to "Give the Earth a Hand". Each student is collaborating to create a bulletin board that will be displayed by the music room. 

What are some things YOU can do to help the Earth?!

Earth Day Art!

Next week we are celebrating Earth Day. So for a fun art activity Ms. Wasney had us do something really fun!! We took a cookie sheet and covered it in shaving cream. Yes, shaving cream! Then Ms. Wasney drizzled different shades of green and blue paint on top of the shaving cream. With a spoon she dragged the colors to make a pretty cool design. With the help of my buddy Aria, we put a plain piece of paper on top of the shaving cream and gently pushed down to cover the entire piece of paper with the shaving cream and paint. When we thought it was all covered we dragged the paper off to one side to smear all the color over the paper. We had to let the paint and shaving cream set for 5 minutes before we took a squeegee and removed the excess paint. 

When it dried it left the most amazing design on my paper!! We cut a circle out of the paper and it looked just like the planet earth from up in space. With a red heart we left a message on our project. My message was "Recycle and reuse as much as you can!" We all chose something from our hearts to make sure that we take care of our planet. This activity really shows how we all support Earth Day and how we want to keep our planet.

By: Jessica and Ms. Claydon

Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day

Here is the shaving cream and paint.
It looked so cool!

Today is Earth Day! Last week we made an art for Earth Day. First Ms. Wasney sprayed shaving cream on a tray, and then put green and blue paint on the shaving cream. Then she mixed it together. Then she called people up to put a piece of paper on the shaving cream, pat it down then pull it off the tray, then we let it dry for 10 minutes and then we scraped the extra shaving cream off with a squeegee and let it dry overnight. The next day, we had a tracer of a circle, we put the tracer on the spot where we wanted it with a pencil. Next we cut the circle out. Then we made a red heart with a saying for Earth Day!  Today we had to do a page about Earth Day. The first question was what are 3 things you do that protect our Earth? One of mine was turn off the light when I don’t need it on. We had to do 4 questions. Then when we were done there was a word search with 40 words! But you could do 20. It was fun!

By: Carly

Earth Day Writing + Art = Great Reflections

With Earth Day approaching, we have been doing some writing and fun art. A BIG thank you to my mom for donating a bunch of fabric scraps and buttons to our classroom! We ended up making some beautiful flower art; which was a fun and creative way to reuse some items. You can see this artwork on Artsonia, by clicking HERE. Yesterday, we "painted" with food colouring and eyedroppers to make our very own earths! (It was so cute that the Grade 3s remembered doing a similar activity for colour mixing when I taught them in Kindergarten!) I was really impressed with the students' writing about how to reduce, reuse, and recycle everyday at home and at school. We made a class book of their reflections. We hope you enjoy the video about the Earth Day art we have created over the past week!