The Ghost with the Most

Today we took a look at ghosts for our Art assignment. Rogers is putting on a drawing contest for students to draw "the ghost that scares you the most" or "sketch a scene from Halloween", so we took on the challenge. Students viewed some photos (real, or at least really photo-shopped) of ghostsly images, to inspire their own artistic visions of what a ghostly image should look like. We also looked at the use of ghosts in classic literature, Like Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, and William Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which ghosts are used as messengers for the living characters to change their lives for the better, or to seek revenge for a wrongful action. Students were "dying" (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun) to share their own ghost stories with the class, and I was surprised by just how many of them had a story to tell. My grade 5 and 6 students then spent the rest of the art period drawing their own sketches. Students who wish to enter the Rogers contest need to hand-in their completed picture to me, with their contact information on the back, and have the orange contest rules and regulations form signed by their parent/guardian, which should be handed in to me as well on Monday October 22, 2007.

Homework Assigned Thursday October 18, 2007:
Grade 5:
-Read 20 Minutes, update log for tomorrow!
-Spelling test (50 words) tomorrow
-Media Literacy sheet due tomorrow
-Math, page 49 textbook
-Art, Ghost picture due Monday

Grade 6:
-Read 20 Minutes, update log for tomorrow!
-Media Literacy sheet due tomorrow
-Reading Response Journal entry due Monday
-Spelling test (50 words) tomorrow
-Math, page 49 textbook - mid chapter review - Quiz tomorrow!
-Art, Ghost picture due Monday