February 6, 2012 Grade 8

Grade 8 students continue to add form to their relief
sculptures based on Mayan stone work.
They are adding details and designs.

February 6, 2012 - Grade 6-7

Grade 6 and 7 students are working together to create“bricks” from newspapers. They are experimenting with “time-motion” concepts in manufacturing the “bricks”. Each student
is finding their best skill in the process and finding they best way to work as a team.

They will take time out to create a poster that reflects
what they remember from the presentation January 27.

January 30, 2012 Grade 8

Grade 8 students will continue to work on their relief sculpture based on authentic Mayan sculputres and murals.

January 30, 2012 Grades 6-7

Recycle or repurpose that is the question !

Grade 6 and 7 students will explore the ways newspaper can be repurposed. They will fold and combine papers to form useful objects. They will:

• find the most efficient ways to produce the paper "bricks".
• gain an understanding of "mass" production - time and motion management.
• find out what therbligs are and be able to identify them in the paper "brick" making process.

January 23, 2012 - Grade 8

Grade eight students will continue to construct the armature for their relief sculpture based on Mayan artifacts. All students have completed two layers of papier-mache on the face forms. This week they will attach the face form to the cardboard base for the extended design.

January 23, 2012 Grade 6-7

Building on the previous week's practice using sumi-e brush strokes to create paintings of monkeys and apes in "action", students will compose a still life bringing all of their skills together. They will paint a picture of what happens when a group of monkeys find a vase of flowers. What ever happens it is sure to be fun.