This morning's message showed a picture of a familiar place. Children identified this picture as being Calgary, by recognizing landmarks of Calgary's skyline like the Calgary Tower and The Bow. We also looked at the natural features like the Elbow River and the Bow River.
The confluence of these two rivers is a significant place in Calgary's history. It had been a meeting place for the Blackfoot people, then it because the location of Calgary's first building...Fort Calgary.
We will be visiting Fort Calgary on Wednesday, January 29th, to learn more about our city's history.
Today we imagined this location, without the bridges, buildings, roads, railways and large trees, back before Fort Calgary was built. We created landscape pictures featuring the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers, and showing how the landscape changes from prairies, to foothills to mountains, looking west from this location.
We talked about:
-the foreground (bottom of page, close)
-the background (higher up on the page, far away or in the distance)
-horizon lines
-that objects get smaller and further up the page when they are far away
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