Soapstone Carving

SOAPTSTONE CARVING

Today we were fortunate to have guest teachers into our classroom to teach us about soapstone and it's artistic uses.


https://kids.kiddle.co/Soapstone

We learned that soapstone carving was and is one type of art that Inuit are known for. The images are usually of the land, the people or the animals of the Arctic. 

We used rasps, sandpaper and oil to create our own soapstone Inukshuks. 

http://icor.ottawainuitchildrens.com/node/51

First we:
Used rasps and water to make all of our edges rounded and soft. 

Next we:

Used rasp tools to make a belt and sandpaper to continue smoothing out all of the edges. There were a lot of edges!! 

Then we:

Used special sandpaper to make sure all of our lines and scratches were gone and we could see the colour come out. Ask me what colour I noticed after I sanded? 

After we used a nail to etch simple patterns into our Inuksuk.

Finally we: 
Washed our final inuksuks and used oil to bring back out the colour. We put them in bags to keep them safe until our Celebration of Learning:

We will be selling these soapstone carvings (by donation) at our upcoming Celebration of Learning to raise money for Polar Bears. 

Ask me what the hardest part was?
My favorite part?
Why?


MATH We continued our Math Review of double digit addition and subtraction. We reviewed the stacking strategy which we are all becoming experts at:

Stacking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFAh4VNMFA 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVliUqkths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayFAh4VNMFA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlrdRJSUMGg

We also reviewed TRIANGLE math for Addition and practiced 3 more questions using this strategy:

Ask me which strategy I like the best? Why? Have I improved in one strategy this year?