Kinder-Art Tour Options

With endless energy and an ever expanding imagination, the kindergarten walking art tour is a great way for students to be physically active, express themselves creatively and have fun!

Group of Seven at the pond

Expectations:

Art:
Communicate their understanding of something by representing their ideas and feelings through visual art Explore different elements of design (e.g., colour, line, shape, texture, form) in visual arts Respond to a variety of visual art forms from various cultures, including their own (e.g., paintings, fabrics, sculptures, illustrations

MathPatterning:
identify and describe informally the repeating nature of patterns in everyday contexts

Science:
describe some natural occurrences, using their own observations and representations demonstrate an awareness of local natural habitats through exploration

Self-Reliance and Self-Awareness:
talk about events or retell stories that reflect their own heritage and cultural background and the heritage and cultural backgrounds of others (e.g., traditions, birthdays, cultural events, myths, Canadian symbols, holidays)

Allow students to stop and make scientific observations of the natural occurrences during the walk from the school to the gallery and  by taking a walk around the pond. Once students arrive they will be able to share observation they made and a gallery instructor will then do a mini-lesson on the group of seven landscape art (making connections between the observations the artists made of nature to inspire their paintings). Students will then engage in a landscape design of their own using an observation they made on the walk here using mixed media (oil pastels and watercolours) to complete their piece of work.

OR

Teachers will be provided an art package on the elements of design. Along the walk to the gallery stops can be made to identify and describe some patterns in nature. When students arrive at the gallery they will be able to share their observations and a gallery instructor will then do a mini lesson on the elements of design and how they can be used to demonstrate patterns in nature (e.g. the lines of bark, the shape and form of leaves, the colour of a flower). Students will then choose a pattern they observed in nature and choose from a variety of media (pencil crayons, pastels, etc.) to complete their piece of work.

OR

At the beginning of the walk teachers will prompt students by telling them that along time ago their were no pages or books for people to share their stories or draw their pictures on and that on their walk they can look for things in nature that they think it would be fun to use to tell a story or make art (provide example such as using a stick to draw in the ground). Students will stop in front of the stone structure with engraving before entering the gallery for a more concrete/visual/kinaesthetic example. Once arriving at the gallery an instructor will provide students with a mini lesson on the Aboriginals who inhabited Canada long before other people arrived. Students can then explore further by learning about totem poles and completing class totem poles