Claire West Landscape Art, Climate Change Presentations and Vocabulary FUN!
/The Sea Lions have been playing some pretty rowdy and fun vocabulary games this week, including Sea Lion Spin-a-Word and Sea Lion Vocab Jeopardy. We are happily encouraging one another and all the Sea Lion Word Wizards agree that words are pretty darn fun!
As we work to learn more about the special qualities of various regions in our state, the Sea Lions did some research on climate change and presented their findings to one another. We have been building real skills around reading and comprehending even tricky non-fiction text. Their work (under a tight timeline) was very impressive. Also impressive was the way they helped one another, reading, writing and practicing together!
The Sea Lions have been studying the work of British landscape artist Claire West, whose whimsical art allowed us the chance to work with a new medium - chalk pastels and starch. We have completed the first step - dreamy, washes of background color. We will add the foreground and middleground details using acrylic paint next week. All our paintings are representations of the ecoregions we have been researching.
We ended our week with a wild and crazy dance party. Sea Lions know how to bring joy to all their days together!
