Junior (Grades 4 to 6)

Contemporary Dance

Contemporary dance workshop directed by Tara Luz Danse.

Exploration, improvisation, creation, body awareness, reflection

Students are invited to move along with a Tara Luz Danse dancer - accompanied by a musician - to explore, through games, the concepts of improvised movement that guide the company’s creation process: the spontaneous creation of movements, the imitation and development of movements and listening to the environment and the group. At the end of the workshop, students are asked to share their experience with the group.

Curriculum Links: Dance Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: A1.1, A1.2, A1.3, A1.4, A2.3
Duration: 90 minutes

Materials:
-Running shoes
-Comfortable clothing
-Water bottle 

Pottery 1

Pottery Instruction provided by Gloucester Pottery School

Decorative box: Creating and Presenting, Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

Using slabs, children will look at ways of creating symmetrical/asymmetrical three dimensional objects focusing on the negative spaces, volume and shadows created by these shapes (ex: cube vs star shape) They will also experiment with textures.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Pottery 2

Pottery Instruction provided by Gloucester Pottery School

Masks : Creating and Presenting, Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

Using slabs and other hand building techniques, students will create a mask, representative of a culture and/or geographic area of their choice.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Pottery 3

Pottery Instruction provided by Gloucester Pottery School

Cup and saucer : Creating and Presenting, Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts
Using various hand building techniques, students will have the opportunity to create the quintessential functional pottery object – a cup (mug, teacup).

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Pottery 4

Pottery Instruction provided by Gloucester Pottery School

Log Cabin: Using coil and slab hand building techniques children create a small log cabin.

Students understand line, horizontal and vertical to create structure. A brief discussion of pioneer times. Students gain an understanding of a variety of styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their social and/or community contexts.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 3 to 8
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 1

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Junior Shakespeare: Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

Students will enter Shakespeare’s world, 'see' the settings, ‘hear’ the characters speak and feel their emotions, and together with their teacher create an exciting performance piece!

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 2

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Character Work: Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing

Who are we and who might we become? Understand and gain empathy in character workshops. Build a character inspired by story, mask, costume, props and/or more!

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 3

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Improv: Creating and Presenting

Express personal responses and make connections to characters, themes, and issues presented in their own and others’ drama works.

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 4

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Mask: Creating and Presenting, Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing

Identify and give examples of their strengths, interests, and areas for improvement as drama creators, performers, and audience members.

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 5

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Creative Movement: Creating and Presenting, Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing

Creative Movement aims to teach students how to be aware of the space around their body and how to move through it. It is good for all ages and all physical abilities. It is expressing creativity with movement that might be inspired by mask, or character, costume, art, music, story or poetry. There is no right or wrong.

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: B1 - B2
Duration: 90 minutes

Visual Arts 1

Visual Arts Instruction provided by Ottawa School of Art - Orléans Campus

Printing - Monotypes: Plexiglass Printmaking

This session will introduce a unique form of printmaking. Working with ink on a Plexiglass surface we will look at the different lines, shapes and patterns that can be made to create an image. Looking at the structure and balance of a landscape, foreground, background and horizon line and basic principles of perspective, the students will create their own image and print a copy of it.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Visual Arts 2

Visual Arts Instruction provided by Ottawa School of Art - Orléans Campus

Mandalas - Balance and Colour with Sand: Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing

This unique session will explore the importance of line, pattern making and colour in art and design. The students will look at the colour value and complementary colours. They will work in pencil and pastel, and then do a mandala using coloured sand.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Visual Arts 3

Visual Arts Instruction provided by Ottawa School of Art - Orléans Campus

Colours - Colour Theory and Colour Balance

The use of colour is very important and often overlooked. In this session we will look at the importance of the pure use of colour to create art. Using coloured fabric we will create art installations, focusing on colour balance and relation. We will look at and consider the work of artists such as Jack Bush, Paul Klee, and Mark Rothko. Students will work all together, and in small groups. Teachers and assistants are encouraged to take photos of the large-scale installation before they are dismantled, creating ephemeral art based photo-documentation. Students will have the chance to create a small colour creation of their own to take home.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Visual Arts 4

Visual Arts Instruction provided by Ottawa School of Art - Orléans Campus

Art in Nature

From Robert Smithson’s ‘Spiral Jetty’ to an Inuksuk, materials found in nature have been used to create images and symbols, both large and small. In this session students will investigate and use materials from nature to create installations that can be photographed, and as in nature, be reformed. Students will look at and discuss the diversity of patterns textures and colours found in the natural world. Teachers and assistants will be encouraged to take photos of the large-scale installation before they are dismantled, creating ephemeral art based photo-documentation. Students will have the chance to create a small colour creation of their own to take home.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 4 to 6
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes