….red is my all time favourite colour
For more Photo a Week Challenges check out Nancy Merrill’s blog.
A Photo a Week Challenge: Red
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Category Archives: Photography
A Word a Week Photograph Challenge – Frame
…..every week Sue Llewellyn goes into her Oxford dictionary and randomly pulls a word that becomes the challenge for that week
The word this week is frame. I suppose you could take it literally and find pictures of frames or things held within a frame or one could go with the verb ‘to frame’.
A natural hand made frame made by a student in grade 3
A gate framing the entrance to a home in Dublin.
An arch framing the entrance to Dublin Castle.
A statue in Dublin framing my silly husband.
A tunnel framing Croagh Patrick in Westport.
To see more ‘A Word a Week Photograph Challenge – Frame’ go to Sue Llewellyn’s site.
29 Faces Challenge – Day 26 to 29
….the grade 5s are trying their hands at drawing realistic faces
It took a lot of encouragement from me but I think they’re starting to get the hang of it.
One Word Photo Challenge – Yellow
….I posted several yellow photos about this time last year….I’ll see if I can find some new ones
http://ceenphotography.com/2014/02/26/one-word-photo-challenge-yellow/
29 Faces – Day 15 to 25
….these faces weren’t done by me but I did teach my grade 2s how to paint them
Today I covered a grade two class that should have had music but the music teacher was at the Kiwanis festival with two other classes and the class I should have had was one of the two classes at the competition. When the grade 2s came into the library I decided to turn the period into an art class. I thought that they could probably handle making faces using watercolour paints.
I demonstrated how to add the skin tones and face shape first and once that was dry we added the hair. I recommended that the facial features be done with marker. Some followed the instructions and others didn’t but most of them had a lot of fun and their faces were pretty good. Here is a gallery of faces for you to enjoy:
Reaching Goals Early
…..600 followers as of yesterday
Thank you to everyone who has chosen to follow me since I started blogging. My second anniversary is coming up in mid April. Last May I set a new set of blogging goals for myself but the only one I remembered was reaching 600 followers by May 1, 2014. So I went back to my post on May 1, 2013 and reviewed what I had written. Here is an excerpt of that post:
…. I reached 300 followers
I reached all my goals before the end of April with your help.
Where do I go from here? Here’s what I’m thinking:
150 likes for one post (114 for https://mamacormier.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/a-word-a-week-photograph-challenge-blue/) This one will be more difficult to reach. It seems that I get most of my likes when I participate in a photo challenge
Our principal taunting the boys and girls
August: Niagara Falls, ON
200 views for one day (currently sitting at 159) I reached 303 views on June 7th
600 followers one year from today I reached 600 followers 10 weeks early
30 000 views one year from today I am 5500 views away from this goal – That would be 550 views a week, 79 views a day – right now I average about 50 views a day
300 new posts in the next year I’m at 262 so I have 38 posts to go – that’s 3.8 posts a week….very doable. My magic number will be 614 posts in total.
Of course once you reach a goal it’s time to set new goals. So in the next 10 weeks my revised goals are to:
• attract 75 more followers
• write 50 more posts
• reach 320 views in one day
• average 80 views a day
Of course none of this is possible without your support. Looking forward to hearing from you. Hopefully I can give you something that sparks your interest and makes you want to visit here. Carol (aka mamacormier)
Cheers!
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge – Orange
Another great challenge put out by Cee over at http://ceenphotography.com/2014/02/18/cees-fun-foto-challenge-the-color-orange/
Big Huge Labs
…..discovered a great ‘free’ website for making Photo Booth pictures and more
Have fun!
The Perfect Day for our Winter Olympics
….freshly fallen snow and temperatures just below freezing
Tuesday morning I arrived early for basketball practice. I assigned a couple of students to sweep the snow off the adventure playground and I drew a couple of targets on the brick wall in preparation for the event that G and I were in charge of, the biathlon. In total there were 11 activities that were being set up for our Winter Olympics.
Shortly after the bell rang students waited to be called to the gym where they would find out which country and team they would be part of. We were hoping to start the first activity at 9:00 but organizing 420 students into 22 teams took longer than we anticipated. The older students were the flag bearers and held up their flags which also had a number of letter assigned to it. Before the students arrived their teachers wrote a number or letter on their hands so they would know where to go when they got to the gym.
The challenge was placing the kindergarten children with the older children. It was the first time that the younger children participated in a fun day with the whole school. I think that their teachers were a little more anxious than the kids themselves. The grades 4 and 5 students did an excellent job looking after their younger team members. They assisted them with the activities and ran with them when necessary but most importantly no one was lost or misplaced during the entire morning.
Every team rotated through at least six activities before the morning ended and then everyone returned to their classes where hot chocolate and cookies were waiting.
After lunch all the students went to the gym where all the choirs were called to the front of the room to perform the songs that they would be singing later in the week and in the following week for Kiwanis. This is a music festival that our school participates in every year. It’s a competition where schools compete against each other in different categories. This year we’ve entered a primary choir, junior choir, grade 4 homeroom choir, grade 5 homeroom choir and a boy’s choir.
After the choirs performed we had our closing ceremony for the Olympic games. At lunch G and I tabulated all the scores from the morning’s events and we determined which countries would win the gold, silver and bronze medals.
We asked the flag bearers to pick up their flags and after the Olympic torch and the banner with the Olympic rings entered the gym I called on each country to enter the gym with their flags held high. The spirit in the room was amazing.
Then it was time to announce the winning countries. The winner of the bronze medal was Denmark. Silver went to Sweden and the gold medalists came from Germany.
Enjoy the photos while you listen to
ThePianoGuys – Let It Go (Disney’s “Frozen”) Vivaldi’s Winter
Burning the Midnight Oil on the Weekend Preparing for the Winter Olympics
….my weekend wasn’t all fun and games with the family
Of course when I say ‘the Winter Olympics’ I’m referring to our fun day at school where we organized a variety of winter games for the boys and girls to participate in. Last week a group of us quickly assembled a committee to plan for a Winter Olympic extravaganza that involved the entire school, from JKs to grade 5s. Not knowing how much longer the snow would stay on the ground and knowing that the temperatures wouldn’t be in the polar vortex zone we decided to host the games on the Tuesday right after the Family Day weekend.
The committee came up with 12 different sporting events, from the ‘Biathlon to Luge to Hockey, that teams could compete in. The sign up sheet went up in the staffroom and all the staff signed up for an event. Two teachers volunteered to make hot chocolate for 420 children and two of the kindergarten teachers wanted to make the Olympic banner with the Olympic Rings.
My colleague next to the library worked with me and her class to make 22 different flags from some of the countries that actually participate in the Winter Olympics. After making the paper flags we decided that we needed to laminate them so that they wouldn’t be destroyed when they were taken outside. That job was done mostly during our prep time and after school and G took some home to finish off the remaining ones after we ran out of the Mack Tack that we were using.
I volunteered to make the 60 medals on the weekend and I had started to make paper dowels for the flags but I hadn’t made nearly enough before I left for the weekend. I also wanted to make an Olympic torch but I wasn’t quite sure how I would tackle that because of course I wanted it to look like the one that was used in Sochi.
Over the weekend I spent some of my time shopping for ribbon for the medals and silver spray paint. A parent at school donated enough CDs for 60 medals and a can of gold and bronze spray paint.
After spray painting the CDs gold, silver and bronze I wrote on each of them, Rosethorn’s Winter Olympics 2014 and then I attached a ribbon big enough to fit over a child’s head. I debated whether to hot glue the ribbon at the ends or sew the ends together. On Monday night I opted for a quicker method and I taped the ends together.
Once the medals were finished I made 36 paper dowels to attach to the flags so that the children could carry them high in the air and then I taped them to the back of each flag. This is what my dining room table looked like Monday night.
One night over the weekend I was up till 3:00 in the morning working on the medals and on Monday I was up till 1:30. Before I went to bed the night before school I decided at the last minute that I really needed to make the Olympic torch as well. I quickly traced out the shape of the torch that they used in Sochi and then transferred the design onto 3 pieces of cardboard that I glued together and spray painted white. In the morning I added the red trim and glued some tissue paper at the top to represent the flames. When we did the closing ceremony I chose a little boy in kindergarten to carry the torch into the gym. He was the perfect choice.
To be continued……….
