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Moooo-ve aside! Here we come!

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This has been a very exciting second week in Kindergarten!  Our class learned all about cows for the Fall Fair.

We were very curious and had lots of questions!  We found the answers we were looking for in videos, books, and by searching the internet.  Afterwards, we made some very cute cows eating grass.

We learned how to milk a cow!

       

Finally, we got to visit the Fall Fair!  There, we got to pet cows, horses, baby chicks, and other farm animals.  We watched a sheep get sheered using a 110 year old machine, and watched a Blacksmith make a hook from a rod. We saw motorcycles do tricks, ate corn on the cob, apples, and drank milk!  What a great day!

                     

 

I am looking forward to visiting Little Catraqui Creek for the first time next Tuesday!

 

 

 

Blast from the Past

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(and a look into the future!)

While talking with a certain Grade 5 student today, I was reminded of all the art classes I have taught at Lakeshore over the past six (SIX!!!!!) years. It’s incredible to think that some of the students I first met as very small people are now fully-functioning, much bigger people.

I first started at Lakeshore School the year I was completing my Bachelor of Education at Queen’s University. I had recently returned home to Kingston after living in Nova Scotia for eight years, working primarily in theatrical costume design. I really enjoyed the work, but living so far away from family was tough, so I decided to make a change.

After arriving home, I was presented with a unique opportunity: instruct a rather small, just-starting-out school in Visual Art, while also completing my B.Ed classes in Kingston, and then pack up bags for Ottawa where I completed my teaching practicum. What a great balance!

I’m pretty sure the entire student population could have fit into the current Lakeshore Shuttle van: one Grade 6, three Grade 3 students and one Junior Kindergartener. Over the year, we experimented with paint, pencils and markers, and the Kindergarten class grew by the end of the year.  (The photos accompanying this post are from Ms. Trish’s Kindergarten class and feature students who are still proudly attending Lakeshore today!)

Obviously, the students have changed a little, but so has Lakeshore as a school. Our population went from barely filling a minivan to busting out of a school bus! The changes in class size meant changing the way the teachers teach, and so I am back to teaching Visual Art to the entire Grade 1-8 population! This is exciting to me because I finally get to harness the creativity of the entire school. So stay tuned for the budding artists of Lakeshore to start sharing their work and ideas with you!

~ Ms. Coe

 

 

 

First Week in Grade 7/8

First Week in Grade 7/8

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Lakeshore School’s Grade 7/8 class came back into the swing of the school year with a bang! Students woke up after an enjoyable summer vacation and happily arrived at Lakeshore in anticipation of a great year. Our new homeroom teacher, Ms. Singh, introduced how language was going to work this year and the Grade 7/8 class did video diaries to communicate our feelings and goals for the course. After catching up with our friends after a great summer holiday, the school was debriefed and enjoyed a back to school fun day! Every student became a member of a special team that would work together to earn points for themselves. After the excitement of the first day of school, the Grade 7/8 class got back into a regular routine. Students enjoyed learning about memoirs and had fun writing their own six-word memoirs that summed up their life. Also, students enjoyed a semi immersion French class where conversational skills were worked on, and vocabulary developed through French worksheets. In Math class, the 7/8’s inquired about the math behind a hurricane. Students did a loosely structured project to figure out what they found the most interesting factor of a hurricane and studied that particular factor. The Grade 7/8’s did Science and Geography separately and with great interest. The introduction to these subjects laid the base of what students would be studying throughout the school year. On Friday, the school took a field trip to Kendrick’s Beach. Teams participated in challenges to earn them points, and the brave people who decided to swim in the frigid lake enjoyed their fluffy towels afterwards. Overall, the first week of the school year was a great success!