Today was the students who are apart of the Winnipeg Jets Hockey Academy's first practice. That mean that about half our class were gone for two periods this afternoon. This is a weekly occurrence, and one that we get used to, but since today was the first time, we did a special art project. Using white crayons and watercolours, we painted a spider web with a multicolour background.
To begin we drew our web with white crayon. This was a little tricky as it was challenging to see on the white paper. We then used our brush to wet our paper. To paint our background we used a painting technique called wet on wet. This is where both the watercolour paint and the paper are wet. It makes the paint colours run together and creates a neat effect. Because we were using watercolour paper, it was a little tricky to get our paper wet enough as the paper was very absorbent. After a few tries though, everyone had the right idea. We had to leave them to dry and unfortunately could not add our last step, drawing the spider on with Sharpie. That will have to wait for another day.
Here are a few of the almost finished paintings. We still need to add in our spiders.
Next on our agenda was our Halloween stations. Students could move around the room and go to any station they wanted. Students could choose from two different math games, a l'halloween matching station, a problem solving station, and a Halloween fun book station.
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