Today we continued working on our story plans. We worked to finish up our plan for the setting and our characters. When we finished we were invited to start working on making a puppet for our main character. We will use the puppets to help us act out our stories. This will help us get our stories just right before we start writing them down.
After recess and word work we started to work on the first task that came in the mysterious box from yesterday. The first task was to create a pendant of protection to help keep us safe during the long journey ahead. In order to work, the pendant needed to have exactly 80 beads and every 10th bead had to be a large pearl bead. Some of us were able to finish and will get to see what is in the second box tomorrow. Some of us will need another day to work on our pendants before we are ready to move on.
At lunch we had FUN LUNCH!! Thank you to all the parents who came to volunteer. After we finished eating we got to watch an Arthur movie and do some drawing because it was too cold to go outside.
After lunch we started working on our watercolour Bluenose paintings. We are trying to put the same level of detail into this watercolour as we did in our practice drawings. We have to use really thin brushes to get all the details to stay clear and we are even saving a few of the small details like the rigging for a very fine sharpie when we are finished the rest of the painting.
In gym we played a game to learn about directions on a boat. We learned that the bow is the front of the boat, the stern is the back, portis the left side, and starboard is the right side. In the game we had to follow Ms. Boyer's instructions and remember which direction was which. For example, Ms. Boyer might say "Swab the deck on the port side" and we would need to run to the port (left) side and pretend to swab the deck.
Please remember that tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday. The forecast says it will be very cold but we will still plan to go our for a little bit of time provided it is not below -20C. Please be sure to have snowpants, toques, mittens, coats, and boots all ready to go.
