Category: May 4-8

Good morning and welcome to our first Clinton Spotlight!

Just because we can’t see the real thing at school doesn’t mean we can’t share all the cool things that are still going on at Clinton! Every week on the Library Blog, we will have a spotlight on at least one Division in our school and see how they are creating, learning and thriving!

Our first Division is…drumroll please…DIVISION 2!!

Division 2 lives in Room 1 and they are a grade 6/7 class. Ms Loukopoulos and Ms Zappavigna keep things rolling in there and they wanted to share something they have been working on…

Division 2 created their own landscapes last week. They were asked to draw, sketch, or paint a landscape, one student even created a collage landscape. They could sketch their backyard, or a place they have been before, they could also follow a directed drawing that was provided for them. They were also asked to write an artist statement. The curriculum focus was to express feelings, ideas and experiences through creating landscapes. Please enjoy them and, if you want try to draw a landscape, please do!

This art piece is a landscape of a sunset in a desert full of cacti. Last year, my family and I went on a 7-day trip to Cabo San Lucas in Mexico, during the summer, and that’s what inspired me to make this landscape. I can still clearly remember the vibrant streaks of color every evening, as the sun would set and the colors were like rich shades of blood red blended with oranges, pinks, purples, crimsons –it was absolutely stunning & beautiful – and smack in the middle: the blazing, blinding, glorious, pineapple-yellow sun. It was like the last gasp of color before darkness fell. ~ Celina, Div. 2

 

Kyle N., Div. 2

This painting is a sunset at the ocean with two birds flying high in the sky. The feeling when I look at it is happiness because of the vibrant colours. ~ Kailey, Div. 2

Good Morning, Lovelies…

Many of you may have seen this “bedtime story” already, as it has been shared over many platforms by all kinds of people.  Even many of the staff at Clinton have been talking about it. 🙂 Now we’d like to know what YOU think!

Watch the video (again if you’ve already seen it) and below are some ideas you could use to respond to the story…or make up your own!

1. Tell us what your first response is…did you like it or not?
2. What personal connections did you make? How did the story make you feel?
3. Which words painted a picture in your mind? Care to share your art if it moved you to create? 🙂
4. Describe how you felt after listening to this story in one or two WORDS. Big, juicy words.

Feel free to comment below, email me or a teacher, chat with your family about it, share it around and ask others’ opinions if they haven’t seen it…so many possibilities!

ENJOY!

Mrs. H.

If Star Wars’ Yoda was here with us, what do you think he would say about the times we’re living in?

“Difficult to see…always in motion is the future.”

Or maybe “Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.”

“Patience you must have.” is a good one.

Or perhaps one of my favourites…”Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is.”

Yoda is wise and also very interesting…did you know…

• Yoda has no determined species…a mystery, it is. 🙂
• Depending on what movie you’re watching, Yoda has a different number of toes! Sometimes 4 and sometimes only 3.
• Yoda is 66 cm tall and weighs 17kg.
• “Baby Yoda” in The Mandalorian is just the same species as Yoda, not Yoda as a baby. Baby Yoda is only 50 years old and Yoda lived to be 900!
• There is a species of underwater acorn worm named after Yoda called Yoda purpurata.

And now to try your hand at making Origami Yoda! All you need is a piece of paper that you make into a square…no need for special origami paper.

May the fourth be strong in you…

Mrs. H.

Please see below for the answers to Friday’s Math riddles…

1. If you multiply me by any other number, the answer will always remain the same. Who am I? Answer: 0
2. You are given 3 positive numbers. You can add these numbers and multiply them together. The result you get will be the same. What are the numbers?  Answer: 1,2,3
3. Using only addition, how can you use eight eights to get the number 1,000? Answer: 888  + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
4. A clerk at the butcher shop is 6 feet tall and has size 10 feet. What does he weigh? Answer: MEAT!!
5. Add the number to the number itself and then multiply by 4. Again divide the number by 8 and you will get the same number once more. Which is that number? Answer: Any number! 🙂