My Corner for Education

February was a busy month this year. Three weeks before Chinese New Year, my principal decided that we should celebrate Chinese New Year with our Chinese students even though we don’t have many Chinese students (less than 10, hahaha). I was brave enough to take charge of the whole event with commitments from a few parents. On February 15, I had eight different centres set up for rotations: Chinese calligraphy for writing SPRING in Chinese, dragon dance, dragon puppet making, bread dough figures, chopsticks race, shuttlecock, dragonfly, and Chinese Food and Greetings for New Year. On that day, we had all grade one and two students in for the whole morning. Everything went smoothly, thank Goodness! The two dragons I made from years ago were perfect for the dragon dance. I was pleased with the outcome, but I was sure exhausted at the end of the day. Guess what I did for my Chinese New Year? I slept in! 

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 We just finished more than a month long of celebration for Black History Month. I was in charge of the visual art section of the club. The grade four and five students used crayons (wax) to create their own art work on a square piece of fabric (muslin). The African theme was inspired by a few pieces of artwork that we have in the library. After the completion of each picture, we covered the picture with a parchment paper, and then ironed the fabric with intense heat to fuse the wax into the fabric. I picked out a fabric pattern with African animals and a matching ribbon. All the fabric squares were pieced together with Heatbond first and then sewn together with the ribbon. It looks so magnificent! Check it out.