Welcome back to regular school schedules
families, though some of our
schedules aren’t so regular. Some changes to staff schedules that you’ll see in
the up coming days are as follows: Dustin returns to programs as Gina is back
in the office, Ryan M. is taking over Mondays at junior, and I, Katie, will be
between both the junior and senior programs until the end of the school year.
Gemma will also continue to be a familiar face at senior.
With my first shift in the New Year being
at senior, I had the pleasure of catching up on some things that I’ve missed
out on over the past year – such as the colouring book challenge. Back in
October, Carolyn put together her favourite pictures from various adult
colouring books and made mini ones for the kids at senior. After distributing
the colouring books, Carolyn challenged the seniors to finish the entire book. Today, Jojo, also known as Joanna, or Jojo
Bean, completed this challenge by finishing her book. To mark this glorious occasion, I interviewed the young artist about her
favourite pieces from her book.
Katie: Joanna, what is your favourite
picture?
Joanna: The heron.
Katie: Do you have a name for this piece?
Joanna: Harry.
Katie: Why is this one your favourite?
Joanna: It’s very colourful and I’ve been
working on it for five days.
Katie: Joanna, you’ve also chosen to
display your jellyfish picture, why is that?
Joanna: I chose it because it was the
first one that I coloured.
Katie: What made you choose to colour this
one first?
Joanna: It looks realistic and I thought
it would be easy to colour.
Katie: Was the heron harder than the
jellyfish?
Joanna: Yes.
Katie: What made the heron harder?
Joanna: The feathers, because they were
different kinds of colours mixed together.
Katie: Anything else that you’d like to
say about your colouring book?
Joanna: I also like the aquarium picture,
because I like the seaweed and coral and there are hidden things in there, so I
really like it.
Katie: What things are hidden in this
picture?
Joanna: A shark, and a treasure chest.
Katie: Why did you decide to use pencil
crayon for the background?
Joanna: Because if I used sharpie it would
go through, it wouldn’t look nice. - it’s a bit too dark. I wanted to be able
to see the fishes.
Katie: Do you prefer sharpie or pencil
crayon, or does it not matter?
Joanna: No preference.
Katie: If you had to pick an artist name,
what would it be?
Joanna: Jojo Bean the Great.
Katie: Is there anyone that you would like
to dedicate this to?
Joanna: No.
Katie: Is there anyone you attribute your
success to?
Joanna: Carolyn, because she encouraged me
to do it.
Katie: Tell me about the bears…
Joanna: Let me look, I like this picture
because … I decided to make it many colours because I didn’t know what colour to
do them. I decided to do something imaginative that wouldn’t exist. So I decided
to do a doughnut bear which turned out pretty good. I did it in the middle so
everyone could see it. I did an icecream bear because it I like icecream. I did
the bean bear because my name is ‘Jojo Bean’. The rainbow bear is because I
wanted all the colours I used together into a rainbow.
Take care,
Katie
Hey everyone,
On Thursday, Ryan led a really cool activity where kids got the chance to create their very own Pokemon cards. There is a website where you can create your personalized Pokemon by answering a series of questions like what type of Pokemon, what it looks like, what it's called etc. Once you've inputted all your information, it generates a card that you print out and TA-DAH... you have your very own, very special Pokemon card. Provided below is the website Ryan used if anyone wanted to make this a take home project.
Next up was Brianna's art from Friday. They worked together to create 'crystal names'. Basically what they did was start with pipe-cleaners that they shaped into the letters of your name.
That's all for now folks,
