AGH: Learn at Home – Week Five

AGH Collection and Curriculum Connections

(Kindergarten-Grade 12)

Talking About Art: Part of a Story – Characters – Continuing our look at storytelling, this mini-tour focuses on characters – common types used in stories, and the ways that artists reveal character.

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Art and Math:  Stable Structures – Sculpture is an excellent way to explore the two rules od stable structures: using a wide base and a lower centre of gravity to create stability in structure.  Students will see how artists use stability and the appearance of instability in their work.

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Storytime

(Kindergarten-Grade 3)
The Red Tree by Shaun Tan

Join Sara Dickinson as she reads The Red Tree Written & Illustrated by Shaun Tan. Sara narrates as we showcase closeups of the pictures in the book, so you won’t miss a thing! Just sit back and enjoy as she guides you through a beautiful story about believing in yourself!

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Studios with Tyler Van Holst

(Kindergarten-Grade 8)

Tyler Makes: Watercolour Blob Creatures – Perfect for young artists, this week we will be have some fun mixing paint in abstract blobs and turning them into fun creatures!  This makes a great pairing with our exploration of characters.

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Online workshops: Character Drawing – As another great combination with this week’s Talking About Art mini-tour series, Tyler Van Holst will look at the art of Character Drawing and Illustration.  This workshop will help students in their comic strip activity in the Talking About Art worksheets.

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ONLINE ARTIST LED PROJECTS

(Kindergarten-Grade 8)

Pop Up Puppet Play! (Gr. 1-5)

In this fun, light-hearted series, join acclaimed Hamilton musician Treasa Levasseur as we explore ways to make puppets from ordinary household objects like spoons, socks, paper bags, or whatever is at hand.  We will use those puppets to explore drama concepts like role, character, and relationship through voice work, and written and improvised dialogue.  The main focus of literacy work will be the point of view. Curriculum tie-ins:  Language, Drama.

AGH Youth Film Challenge

(Grades 4-12)

The AGH Film Festival’s annual Youth Film Challenge is accepting short films from aspiring filmmakers of all ages. Making a movie with a phone or Ipad is very easy, and is a productive use of screen time that engages literacy in developing storytelling skills.  Our artist-educators can help through our Online projects.  

Discover how your students can get involved!