MenuWhether you are at home or in the building, King’s students all across Canada started their classes today. Here’s a look at the start of the day and some of our classrooms enjoying the new experience.
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Classes at Home – Week 9
During Classes at Home, all the same class discussions still happen. Here’s the Grade 11 Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology class checking in with their teacher for their class discussion. It’s so much fun and so great to get together anyway we can!
Classes at Home – Week 8
Ms. Speranzi’s Grade 11 French class read and discussed ‘Le Petit Prince’ during Classes at Home and then were asked to each create their own movie poster. They had to decide which actors to cast in the major roles and what the tag line – in French, of course – should be for the movie that they would produce. The posters are so pretty and fun!
Classes at Home – Week 7
Here’s a sample of King’s Classes at Home, still having classes together despite physically distancing: such a joy to see the Grades 4 to 6 classes all dressed up to do their speeches!
Classes at Home – Week 6
Some great creative things are happening during Classes at Home! The Grade 9 Art Class was given an assignment to make an artistic music video in the style of Erwin Wurm – a contemporary Austrian artist who poses inanimate objects with human subjects to create ‘One Minute Sculptures’. The assignment was to find a song that spoke to each student, during the COVID-19 school disruption, and using the artist’s work as inspiration create a video to match it. We hope you enjoy one of our student’s original interpretation of this artist’s work!
Classes at Home – Week 5
The Grade 7 and 8 class had a month-long project in Science during Classes at Home to build a structure out of common things they could find at home. We are so impressed with this model of the Parthenon that one of our King’s kids has built – amazing what you can do with cardboard! Look what you can do with Bristol board, tape, and elastics – what a great model of Ontario Place done by another Grade 7 student!
Classes at Home – Week 4
During Classes at Home this week, Mrs. Robinson’s English classes were asked to write their own Tanka poem, a five-lined cousin of the Haiku. The Tanka’s syllables are counted as 5-7-5-7-7, and its theme is usually based on strong sensory images of all the five senses. For your moment of Zen today, here is a Tanka poem written by one of our Grade 4 students. It certainly makes bedtime a joyous experience!
Bedtime
By: Cassidy Bruce
Nice warm tea at night
Chamomile and lavender
Night light twinkling
Blankets wrapped all around me
Soothing sleepy soft music
Classes at Home – Week 3
Classes at Home – Week 3
Our Art teacher, Mr. Sean-William Dawson, a professional artist himself, has asked the King’s Grade 7 and 8 Art class to produce their own original works in the style of the Canadian artist and illustrator, Mr. Rob Elliot. Mr. Elliot was in New York City during Hurricane Sandy and kept a visual diary of what he saw, felt, and experienced; and is now revisiting this concept with a new visual diary during COVID-19. Our Grade 7 and 8’s were asked to keep their own visual diary of their personal experience of COVID-19 as their Art assignment during Classes at Home. The highlight of their week was a Zoom call between the class and the artist they were basing their work on: Mr. Elliot. The class had a great time showing the artist their own work and discussing his work – a great experience for all! Our thanks to Mr. Dawson for this great assignment and for coordinating this meeting, and to Mr. Elliot for the generous gift of his time and insights.
Classes at Home – Week 2
Our Grade 5 Science class explored the turning force this week by creating windmills that would lift mass using torque.
Classes at Home – Week 1
During Classes at Home, our Grade 4’s used their knowledge of 3D geometric shapes to create their own little cities as the week’s culminating activity in Math.
