Langevin Grade One

Photography Field Study On our trip to SPI last week, students focused on the elements of photography.  Sarah met with our students in the morning to share some different techniques for photography and capturing your subject in a good photo. We learned the following elements that we then had the opportunity to practice using iPads in the field. Point of View Ants Eye View and Birds Eye View Rule of Thirds Pattern/Texture/Shape/Colour Symmetry Leading Line Since our field study, Sarah has returned to our classrooms to help celebrate our success from St. Patrick's Island.  She also helped us to critique our photos.  We are looking forward to learning more with her on our field study to Fish Creek Park next week.

Welcome to Grade One! The first month of grade one has come and gone.  It was been great getting to know all of our new students and families.  We are so excited for the year ahead.  Here is what we have been up to so far! Our First Field Study - The Fragrant Garden We visited a local, community garden to work on "sketching like a scientist" and finding a "quiet place".  Both of these skills were worked on the first week in our classrooms and will be revisited throughout the entire year.  Students are encouraged to look closely and sketch what they see, taking their time to add details and look for unique traits in objects.  We started this in the classroom by describing various objects in  a large group.  Pinecones, leaves and sticks were placed in the middle of our circle and we took turns describing their differences and trying to guess which one was being talked about without saying what it was. We then spent time in our naturalization a...