PVES Enhancement Update
What is going on in those enhancement classes?
Welcome to the Park View Enhancement Newsletter!
Kim Jones
Ashton Bishop
Teresa Brewer
Art Happenings
First and Second grade students have been learning about the Russian artist, Wassily Kandinsky. Kandinsky grew up loving music. He loved colors also and even remarked as a child that the colors of nature dazzled him. The students learned that colors and music greatly influenced his artwork. He believed that colors could visually convey emotion in visual art just like the notes of music can convey emotion when people hear it. Kandinsky also believed that shape and line worked with color to express emotions in a drawing or painting as well. Many paintings that Kandinsky painted contained shapes, especially concentric circles. Students learned about concentric circles and created their very own concentric circles. After creating our colorful concentric circles, each student in the first and second grade put up their circle in the hallway to make colorful Kandinsky Trees. They learned that concentric circles are all around us, (i.e. a tree trunk, eyes, the ripples in water when raindrops hit it, an archery or dart game target, the symbol for the Target store, tires or wheels, a bird’s eye view of a tiered cake, a ship’s wheel, a sliced onion, some clocks).
PE Activities
lines for some of our goals, and becoming a healthier me! Each rotation
the children learn 3 new exercises.
CHALLENGE TIME!
Have your children
teach you how to do a crab walk touch or planks.Commercials are a great
time to do these, and it helps make sure we're moving throughout the day!
Also try and stand on one foot while you brush your
teeth, it helps improve balance and your core strength. Remember: play is
perpetual youth.
Making Music!
1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grade Students have started creating their own rhythms, as well as listening and dictating rhythms that they hear.
Kindergarten Students have started learning about the different ways we can use our voice, and when to use it in different ways.