Visit to the CPO

Today, we travelled via bus to the Jack Singer concert hall. We had the opportunity to watch the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra practice. We sat there and listened to them play for about 2 hours and then we took a break to go have lunch and use the facilities. Once the practice was completed, we had the privilege to walk backstage and met a musician named Kyle, who was the tympanist. We then headed to the 3rd floor and looked down at the stage from the balconies; it was the best part of the day.

Rock-climbing and How to Train Your Dragon

Yesterday, we went to Strongholds, a rock-climbing facility. We were debriefed on how to put the harness on, how to belay (a technique for holding the ropes for your partner) and how to rock-climb safely. Afterwards, we tested our skills and climbed different walls, some were definitely harder than others! We spent two hours at Strongholds and had a lot of fun learning how to climb. Then, we got onto the bus and made our way to the Chinook Theatre to watch How to Train Your Dragon in IMAX. We waited for a while in the arcade and some people even bought tokens to play the games. We then went to the concession stand and bought popcorn and pop. We proceeded into the theatre and watched How To Train Your Dragon, which was a very cute and interesting movie. At around 3:30, the bus came and we made our way back to school.

Reflection Questions:
What was cool about today?
What made you think today?
What other historical groups have treated another group in the same way that the Vikings treated the dragons?

Day Trips Slide Photo Slide Show

Tuesday, April 27, 2010 - Jubilee Art Day

Jubilee Art Studio

We started off by arriving at the studio by bus. We were then led by the Jubilee art representatives on an art walk. We saw some very unique abstract art e.g. a piece of art made out of old books!

We took a 15 minute break.

After the break, we started to work on our own abstract art pieces.

On an 11 by 14 inch canvas, we created our own personal textures, painted them and then followed instructions to complete the assigned tasks. 3 quarters through the project we had a 45 minute lunch break. We then completed our projects. After critiquing them, we arranged them in a collage and took a grand picture.

After the picture, the representatives gave us a gift bag and then we went off to the bus which was waiting out side the Jubilee Auditorium.

Monday April 26th 2010

Today we went to Lloyds roller skating in the morning. After we had a blast there we headed over to the Glenbow Museum to look at some art and build our own structure.

The coolest thing I did/saw today was.....

• The coolest thing I did today was learning how to turn in roller skating, the coolest thing I saw today was the abstract art at the Glenbow Museum. - Emmett Cook
• Was the abstract art that we saw at the Glenbow Museum- Simran Jabbal
• The coolest thing I did today was the disco train where we showed off our disco moves and got to see what everybody learned to do at Lloyd's, the coolest thing I saw was the sculptures at the Glenbow - Niko Mancina
• The super duper coolest thing-o i saw today was Ms. Schiemens gold watch - Giwoon Eom
• The colles thing I was today was Giwoon fall at Lloyds rollercad -Braden DeVries
• Giwoon falling down at Lloyds rollercad -Quinton Li
• The coolest thing I did was roller skating.- J.S choi
• Roller Skating at Lloyds -Amanda, David, and Valerie
• roller skating- Karlen, Tim, Stephen
• The coolest thing I saw today was T's blister :) - SS
• The coolest thing I saw today was S's belt and C roller skating : TC
• LoL <(^.^)> - CL

Something that made me think today was.....

• Looking at the very big picture of the murky pond. - Emmett Cook
• Looking at the picture of the lady playing the guitar and trying to figure out what it resembeled-Simran Jabbal
• The sculptures we made and what they looked like - Niko Mancina
• The religious sculptures that we got to look at made me think - Giwoon Eom
• The religious sculptures at the Glenbow museum -Braden DeVries
• The religious sculptures at the Glenbow Museum -Quinton Li
• "I see the reflection of the trees..." "That's cause it is Val..." - Tim, David, Amanda, and Valerie
• The asia art at glenbow- Karlen, Stephen
• The oh so sparkly Disco ball ( OF DOOM) - TC, CL, SS

Today would have been better if...

• We had some more time to skate at Llyoyds. - Emmett Cook
• If we had more time at Lloyd's- Simran Jabbal
• If I didn't get blisters at Lloyd's - Niko Mancina
• If I didn't fall a lot at Lloyds - Giwoon Eom
• If Giwoon fell more at Lloyds -Braden DeVries
• If Giwoon fell more at Lloyds -Quinton Li
• If we had longer time at Lloyds, and less time of art explanations -Tim, David, Amanda, and Valerie
• More time at Lloyds- Karlen, Stephen