Teacher's Blogs: Grade 7 & 8
Nature Art
Integrating Arts and Literature is always a great way to give the written word a tactile and visual reality. In a recent art project, the Grade 7/8 students gave form, texture and colour to nature poems by weaving colourful lines of poetic imagery together with found objects they had collected on a nature walk. Their …
Art Gallery Field Trip
During two recent field trips to the Agnes Etherington Art Center, I was reminded of the enormous benefits of visiting an art gallery. As the 3/4 and 7/8 classes viewed and discussed paintings and prints, they were inspired in subtle and inspirational ways! They engaged with people in the arts community and were able to …
Forces in Motion – Inclined Planes
Our current science unit is investigating Force and how simple machines are used to make Work easier. There is a lot of formula use in this unit, something that some students are being challenged by. This lab was looking at the use of inclined planes and how the use of them makes the force required …
A Day in the Arts
Samara with Audrey II Grade 7/8 students enjoyed “A Day in the Arts at Holy Cross”, during which musicians, actors, singers and dancers showcased the Art Program at Holy Cross Catholic High School. During the morning, KCS students watched a dance performance, and then listened to a senior wind ensemble concert and a vocal performance. …
A Busy Couple of Weeks
Over the past two weeks students from Grade 7/8 class have been part of two large events. We are blessed to have coaches from the KCS community but I still get to be part of the day and it always great to see the students interacting outside of a classroom setting. On November 15, KCS …
The Attributes of God
By learning about the attributes of God, the Grade 7/8 class has also been considering how they can praise Him for who he really is, and learn to more closely reflect his attributes themselves. During our classes, they each chose an attribute as the theme for an original piece of art which included paint, collaged …
Resurrection Project
The 2018-19 Grade 7/8 multimedia painting entitled “Resurrection” has spent the last 4 months at the historic St. Marks Anglican Church in Barriefield. Thank you to Fr. Haynes Hubbard, his wife Susan, and his son Caspian (one of the artists) for their support during this project, and for giving the artwork its first home! The painting …
Grandfriends!
Last Friday KCS hosted the annual Grandparent’s and Grandfriend’s day. It was a wonderful time of meeting new people and seeing the support and love of different generations to the young people at KCS. I enjoy talking to the grandparents as they come in. From year to year you get to know them a bit …
GOTV In Progress!
With less than three weeks to go the 7/8 is working hard to get their parts of the GOTV campaign finished. Attached is the partial list of the to-do by Friday. The goal is to get out in the neighbourhoods next week.
GOTV Project Launch!
Last week we visited Kingston City Hall to launch our Get Out the Vote (GOTV) project. In conjunction with the upcoming federal election on October 21 and our current history unit leading up to Confederation, the 7/8 class is going to run a GOTV campaign in the adjoining school neighbourhood. We met with Mr. Oosterhof, …