Painted Ships

There is a great art teaching resource that we sometimes use in grade 5 called Arts Attack.  We combined two of the lessons from that resource, Clipper Ships and Winslow Homer, to create the painted ships below.  I like to do this project at this time of year because it makes a connection to the explorers that we are studying in social studies.

Shape and Space Design Project

At the end of December, the class had the opportunity to put into practise all of the concepts they learned in our Shape and Space Unit.  For this project the class was divided into six groups, and each group was assigned a colour as their team colour.  The problem of the project was to create a "gingerbread" (we used foam core board) that met specific criteria.  The criteria was classified into mathematical criteria (area/perimeter/lines/shapes required), structural criteria, artistic criteria, and photographic criteria.  The complete assignment can be found here.

The following are photos of each of the houses taken by the groups:

Black Group

Green Group

Orange Group

Red Group

White Group

Yellow Group

World Vision Project 2014

Each year at Christmas time, the grade 5 to 12 classes take on a project to raise money for World Vision.  The students are encouraged to think about what  resources they themselves have to raise money for the project and then they are to set a personal goal.  As a class, we add together all of the personal goals to create a class goal, and, as a class, we work together to reach our goal.

http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?go=gift&&section=10389&prod=yeh3jn4o9F9JdoydnunFPqdl:S&prod_pses=ZGD19054A1D0B1CD9A735098E377090038C07F33ECDA891EF698125E79B529545FC0A4A132CF7D880AE47B21A3E2D48ED8C4CD4AA52A1C878C

The money raised this year came from sledding parties, cookie and bake sales, shoveling driveways, piggy banks, birthday money, art sales, savings accounts, parents matching money raised, and family donations.

Our goal in 5G was to raise $800.00 to purchase gifts from the World Vision Gift Catalogue.  We are excited to report that we not only reached our goal, but we exceeded it by

160%

putting us at a grand total of:

$1281.64!

Well done 5G!  What compassionate hearts you have shown!