Glenbow Museum

Today room 10 spent the day at Glenbow Museum. We started the morning exploring Picturing the Northwest, historical art from Glenbow's collection. We learned that most people only look at a piece of art for 7 seconds. We know that it takes much longer to understand a story and each painting was telling us a "story". Miss. Amanda (museum teacher) was asking us questions like what shapes and colours do you see? What would you see, hear and smell if you were standing in this painting. How do you feel when you look at the painting? We were then given different feeling words like calm, sleepy, excited, mysterious and we had to find paintings that made us feel like these words. It was so cool seeing all the different painting that each of us choose. Our last task before lunch was to create a piece of art with loose parts that described a specific feeling word that Miss. Amanda gave us. Check out what we created!

We spent the afternoon learning about the historical roots of Calgary and the importance of Farmers and Ranchers to our city. We also learned where the Calgary Stampede came from and how Tom Three Persons was the only cowboy who could tame Cyclone that toughest, wildest horse at the whole Stampede! To end the day we practiced our scientific sketching skills by sketching really cool old rancher artifacts like Bits and spurs.