Glenbow Museum

Today we learned how to slow down, look deeply and read the vocabulary of art - line, shape and colour - in one of Glenbow's many art galleries. Using all of their senses, students collaborated in small groups to create a floor collage using materials that support their exploration and understanding of these concepts. Students were given a word and had to create a masterpiece that expressed that feeling. Here are the examples of the floor collages that we made:
Thrilling


Beautiful


Happy


Playful


Scary



Today we explored Inuit culture through discussions about food, clothing, shelter, animals, beliefs and values. Using authentic Inuit artifacts, students investigated and came to conclusions about what these objects are, how they were made and what they were used for. Here are the objects: 
Have these discussions at home too, see if you can determine what they are and what they're made of. Each group only had a chance to investigate one object. We will continue the exploration on Friday.