Primary (Grades 1 to 3)

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 1 to 3
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

Pinch Pot Animals: Creating and Presenting

Students will have the opportunity to create various geometric and organic shapes using some of the basic ceramic hand building techniques (i.e. pinch pots to create a sphere). A variety of tools will be used to create textures.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Pottery 2

Pottery Instruction provided by Gloucester Pottery School

Coiled Cups: Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

Students understand line, horizontal and vertical lines to create structures that demonstrate an understanding of a variety of art forms, styles, and techniques from the past and present, and their social and/or community contexts.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Pottery 3

Pottery Instruction provided by Gloucester Pottery School

Textured Slab Cup/Vase: Creating and Presenting, Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

Students will work with two dimensional geometric and organic shapes using the slab building technique, and will be encouraged to explore textures employing different found objects.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 1 to 3
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

Puppets: Creating and Presenting

Engage in dramatic play and role play, using puppets with a focus on exploring a variety of sources from diverse communities, times, and places.

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 2

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Mask : Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing

Demonstrate an understanding of the element of character by pretending to be someone or something else; adopting thoughts, feelings, and gestures relevant to the role being played.

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 3

Theatre instruction provided by Ottawa Theatre School

Theatre Games: Creating and Presenting, Reflecting, Responding, and Analyzing, Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

Express feelings and ideas about a drama experience or performance that had the same problem or felt the same way as this character, making personal connections to the characters and themes in the story.

Curriculum Links: Drama Grades 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: B1 - B3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Theatre 4

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 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: B1 - B2
Duration: 90 minutes

Visual Arts 1

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

Printing - Styrofoam Printing: Exploring Line and Drawing

Explore the different forms of line making: curved, spiral and broken lines, and how they are used in drawing. Before starting to print, there will be an introduction to the printing process and its tools. The activity will culminate with students having the chance to use their creativity and new knowledge to scratch their image into a Styrofoam base and print their image a few times.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes

Visual Arts 2

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

Sculpture: An Introduction to the Third Dimension: Exploring Forms and Cultural Contexts

This hands-on dynamic session will introduce the fun of creating and learning how to work in 3D. Elements of size, shape and balance; learning about the materials and how they are used in creating internal structure and exterior details will be explored as the students create a sculpture out of paper and cardboard that will be finished in plaster bandage. Note: This session can be flexible in terms of sculptural theme: birds, underwater creatures, insects, etc.

Curriculum Links: Visual Arts Grades 1 to 3
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 1 to 3
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 1 to 3
Specific Expectations: D1 – D3.2
Duration: 90 minutes