Thanks to Rubble Road for coming and spending the morning with my class this week.
The students had the opportunity to work with rasps to carve a pre-cut piece of soapstone.
They learned that having something wonderful happen takes hard work and they were all determined to create their own version of a famous Inuit sign post.
Inukshuk stand like sign posts in the bleak northern landscape, showing the way to hunting or fishing locations or even where food has been buried.
Once the edges of the rock were smoothed, and some details added with the rasps, the students used three different grits of sandpaper to smooth the stones.
I love the look of determination and
of joy, as they created and knew that they were very capable!
One boy even said "This is going to be my job when I grow up!"
What a wonderful opportunity to try something new!
Once the stones were all dried out, they were coated with tung oil to bring out the colour.
They will be sent home after the conferences of Wednesday night.
On Friday, the students used a new medium, chalk pastels, to create the dancing Aurora Borealis. Though the students had the same materials, just like each time we see the Northern Lights, they are different as they vividly dance across the night sky, so too were their final products different and unique.
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