Ms.Reynolds Classroom Canvas

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Arbor Day Contest Winner

Congratulations to Ella from room A for winning the Arbor Day poster contest for Kindergarten in New Castle County, DE! The week at Wilson Elementary school a Holly tree will be planted in her honor.
In addition, she will be recognized at the state Arbor Day celebration and receive a special savings bond reward! I want to thank the entire kindergarten team at Wilson for doing a great job on their posters, let’s try again next year!

Poster Created By:

Ella

Room A

http://dda.delaware.gov/forestry/arborpost12.shtml

Monday, April 2, 2012

Spring Break Origami Fun

Over the past week, students at Wilson Elementary have been studying the ancient japanese art form of origami. We had such a blast learning about the history of origami and how to make origami spring flowers. As a treat here are a few optional spring break Origami projects.

Enjoy!

Below is a list of How To Origami Links:

(choose a project by clicking the descriptive words)

A Brief History of Origami

Advanced Origami Panda

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Artwork inspired by Vincent Van Gogh

For the entire month of February, Wilson's 4th and 5th grade students have been exploring the artwork of Vincent Van Gogh. In art we used the fun and free artwork encyclopedia: http://www.wikipaintings.org/

to view Van Gogh's famous painting "The Starry Night"
As a class we learned about Van Gogh's use of real and implied texture, as well as his use of foreground, middleground, and background. Afterwards, we created our our works of art inspired by Vincent Van Gogh. I would love to share a few of 4th and 5th grade projects.

In addition, The Philadelphia Art museum is currently showing a special Vincent Van Gogh Exhibit.
The exhibit will be up from Feb- May 2012. If you are interested in visiting the exhibit and learning more about Van Gogh's artwork visit: http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/743.html