Curriculum-Based School Programs

Art Gallery of St. Albert St. Albert Heritage Sites Musée Héritage Museum

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St. Albert & Area: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 By fax: 780-460-9537 Edmonton: Friday, September 6, 2011 1) Photocopy the registration form on page 3. (You may also register anytime during the school year.) 2) Complete one form per day of programs. 3) To ensure the fax has been transmitted, program the fax machine to print a status Registration Online: www.artgallerystalbert.com or report if possible. www.museeheritage.com Information and Policies 1 4) If you receive a busy signal, you may Visit our new websites for a want to fax after regular office hours or complete program listing, including Program Fees 2 use e-mail. online registration.

Map 2 phone: 780-459-1163 By e-mail: [email protected] (begins October 17th) Registration Form 3 send your details in this order: 1) School, teacher name and workshop choice Programs at a Glance – Art Gallery of St. Albert 4 2) Phone numbers for day and evening You will be contacted to finalize a date for programs. With the 3) Preferred months, days and times high volume of requests, it may take a number of weeks to Art Explorers 5 confirm the program date; fall courses will be confirmed first. Youth Gallery 8 Information and Policies Studios 9 Confirmation Attending Programs Outreach and Early Arts 18 The contact person or teacher will be contacted to confirm 1. Wear nametags (students, teachers and a date for programs. Packages will be sent approximately volunteer helpers). one month before workshops to allow time to resolve any 2. Wear art-proof clothing. Programs at a Glance – Musée Héritage Museum 22 conflicts or errors. Letters are addressed to each teacher; 3. Bring maps and information sheet with schedule of check with colleagues if you have not received your programs for your reference. St. Albert Heritage Sites 23 information. 4. Ensure that students walk in a quiet and orderly manner, through public areas such as St. Albert Place. Musée Héritage Museum 27 Enrollment Policy 5. Let the instructor know if there are children The number of students booked will determine the amount who cannot be photographed. Locations & Contact Information 33 invoiced. If enrollment has changed, please notify the office upon receipt of the confirmation letter or prior to the day Volunteer Helpers of the workshop. There is no minimum enrollment number, Volunteers or parents are asked to accompany students. however, a minimum fee is charged for each workshop. (The Usually 4 to 6 adults per class is adequate, depending on minimum fee is equivalent to the cost of 14 students.) class size and needs. Ratio of adults to students: 1:4 for Preschool and Kindergarten, 1:5 for Grades 1 to 3, 1:7 Cancellation Policy for Grades 4 and higher. This support is appreciated and If a workshop is cancelled with less than 3 weeks notice, makes the program more enjoyable for everyone. *Please $50 per workshop will be charged. If the program is remember, volunteer helpers are attending to assist students, rebooked or another class can fill the space, the cancellation not to participate in the workshop as a student. fee will be waived.

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Perron St Sculpture Garden Circle Preferred: Class 1 St Vital Ave 2 St Anne St L Months Days Times Program Title: Mission Ave September Monday 9:30 – 11:00 1 Sturgeon River St. Albert Place P October Tuesday 11:30 – 1:00 Program Site: Meadowview Dr St Thomas St P P November Wednesday 1:30 – 3:00 L Teacher’s First & Last Name (Please circle: Miss / Mrs. / Ms. / Mr.) L December Thursday Any January Friday L Grade: Number of Students (normal class size) February Any Outreach March 10:00 – 11:30 Sir Winston Churchill Ave April Lunch space is needed 1:00 – 2:30 Class 2 May 11:00 – 11:30 Program Title: June 1:00 – 1:30

Program Fees Program fees help to cover the cost of all administration, supplies and equipment. Any Program Site:

St. Albert Heritage Sites: Special Requests for Clay Workshops (if possible): Please do not bring your payment to the workshop. An Teacher’s First & Last Name (Please circle: Miss / Mrs. / Ms. / Mr.) Little White School $4.00 per student invoice will be sent to your school within one month. St. Albert Grain Elevator Park $4.00 per student GST is not charged. Grade: Number of Students (normal class size) Special Theme for Multi-Media Workshops (if possible): Father Lacombe Chapel $4.00 per student Please make cheques payable to: Arts & Heritage St. Albert Musée Héritage Museum $4.00 per student Class 3 Include invoice numbers and mail to: Special Considerations: Musée Héritage Outreach $4.00 per student Arts & Heritage St. Albert Program Site: + $60 per day of travel (Additional fees for distant travel) Suite #200, 20 Perron Street

St. Albert, AB T8N 1E4 Notes: Program Site: Education Kits/Reminiscence Kits $10 per week

Guided Tours (1.5 hour tour) $4.00 per student For account inquiries, contact Registration: Teacher’s First & Last Name (Please circle: Miss / Mrs. / Ms. / Mr.) Phone: (780) 459-1163 Fax: (780) 460-9537 Art Gallery of St. Albert Programs: Grade: Number of Students (normal class size) Email: [email protected] Art Explorers $4.00 per student Studio Programs $7.75 per student A discount of $0.25 per student per program is (minimum class fee of $108.50) Please fax to: 780-460-9537 or visit www.artgalleryofstalbert.com applied when the same class books two or more Outreach and Early Arts $7.75 per student programs on the same date. The discount applies to or www.museeheritage.com and register online! (minimum class fee of $108.50) any combination of Arts and Heritage programs. + $60 per day of travel (Additional fees for distant travel)

Please contact Registration about possible financial assistance for Art Gallery of St. Albert programs as some 2 schools may qualify for a grant. 3 Art Explorers

Art Explorers Tour Program: Understanding Art Through Senses and Experiences!

Look at Our World! 6 Art Explorers tour program expands students’ understanding In conjunction with ARTificial exhibition of art through a fun, sensory-based looking approach. An September 5 - October 28, 2011 explorer by definition is somebody who travels to places that were previously unknown or navigated. Guided by qualified, Journey to Another Land 6 enthusiastic art educators, students will explore art through: In conjunction with Afghanistan Through My Lens exhibition • Emotions: How does this painting make you feel? November 7 - 25, 2011 • Movement: Can you make your body move like this line? • Memory: What does this shape remind you of? What Do You See? 6 • Senses: If this colour were a flavour, how would it taste? In conjunction with Found Objects exhibition • Imagination: If this sculpture could speak, what December 5, 2011 - January 27, 2012 would it say? Special Places & Spaces 6 Art Explorers is designed for teachers in search of a In conjunction with On Location exhibition multidisciplinary learning experience to introduce art February 6 - 24, 2012 appreciation, the elements of art and other curriculum topics to their students. The program welcomes all grade levels! How Does Your Garden Grow? 6 In conjunction with Immuto exhibition A lively introduction to the Gallery is followed by a tour and March 5 - April 27, 2012 discussion of the current exhibition. Several educational activities as well as a hands-on project related to the art on display allow Imagination Station 7 students to interact directly with the art. Our observation is Programs at a Glance In conjunction with High Energy XVII exhibition that students leave Art Explorers having found meaning for May 7 - June 1, 2012 themselves in the art as well as the confidence to discuss it with Art Explorers Art Gallery of St. Albert 5 - 7 others. • Kindergarten - Grade 12 Youth Gallery St. Albert Place, Arden Theatre Lobby 8 We invite you to bring your students to Art Gallery of St. Albert so you can all become Art Explorers! Why not combine an Art St. Albert Place, Visual Arts Studios 9 - 17 Studio Programs Explorers tour with a Studio Program for a creative, full day • Clay: Kindergarten - Grade 3 of art in St. Albert? • Clay: Grades 3 - 5 • Clay: Grades 6 - 12 • Multimedia: Kindergarten - Grade 12 Mandate for Art Gallery of St. Albert: Outreach Programs Your School, Preschool or Daycare 18 - 21 • Artist in Residence To provide enriching educational experiences that • Early Arts Outreach: Preschool and Kindergarten celebrate visual culture and artistic achievement through • Outreach Grades 1 - 12 research, exhibition and interpretation

Art Explorers interacting with a sculpture by Mary Swain from the Vessels exhibition (2010)

Art Gallery of St. Albert offers Art Parties for special occasions such My students and I enjoyed our Art Explorers experience! We 4 as children’s birthdays, Special Summer Art Explorers during July and were engaged and excited while looking at and appreciating the 5 August, and art programs for children, youth and adults year round. art. This program always exceeds my expectations - 8 years and Email [email protected] for more information. counting... always a pleasure Look at our World! In conjunction with ARTificial exhibition Curriculum Links: Art, Science, Social Studies September 5 - October 28, 2011 Start off the school year with a visit to AGSA’s ARTificial exhibition! It features four artists who examine how Mother Nature and human beings struggle to share the earth. Paintings, prints and photographs created by Paul Bernhardt, Brenda Kim Christiansen, Eveline Kolijn, and Jordan Rule will give Art Explorers a lot to think about as they ponder how people impact our planet. Discover how looking at art can help us look at our world!

Journey to Another Land In conjunction with Afghanistan Through My Lens exhibition Art Explorers interacting with a painting by Ross Lynem Curriculum Links: Art, Social Studies from the Fun House exhibition (2010) November 7 – 25, 2011 Travel to far-away Afghanistan on this inspiring Art Explorers tour! Photographer David Bowering spent four months What Do You See? following Canadian, American and British soldiers and In conjunction with Found Objects exhibition came back with many fascinating and compelling images Curriculum Links: Art, Social Studies, Math of his day-to-day life with the troops. His photographs December 5, 2011 – January 27, 2012 reveal the many challenges facing Afghanistan, in the eyes Look closely - what do you see? As an Art Explorer you of its people and the appearance of its landscape. Gain an will delight in examining the art of Paul Burwell, Cynthia understanding of another culture impacted by war as you Fuhrer and Sydney Lancaster as you look for meaning for journey to another land at AGSA! yourself in their work. Enlarged photographs of microscopic snowflakes, pencil portraits and clay busts of imaginary people, and feathers, bones and other objects imbedded BONUS! In addition to seeing the Afghanistan Through Art Explorers working together on a scavenger hunt. My Lens exhibition, Art Explorers will also journey upstairs in beeswax will stimulate your senses and make you marvel to the Rental & Sales Gallery for a quick visit to see pottery, about how found objects can be used to create art! painting, quilting and more, created by members of St. Albert’s Visual Arts Guilds. These one-of-a-kind handcrafted How Does Your Garden Grow? Imagination Station artworks will give students an additional art appreciation Special Places & Spaces In conjunction with Immuto exhibition In conjunction with High Energy XVII exhibition experience! In conjunction with On Location exhibition Curriculum Links: Art, Social Studies, Science Curriculum Links: Art, Language Arts, Social Studies Curriculum Links: Art, Science March 5 – April 27, 2012 May 7 – June 1, 2012 February 6 – 24, 2012 Develop an appreciation for the science and beauty of The energy is sure to be high at AGSA in the spring! Can you imagine walking into a landscape painting and gardening as you view delicate watercolour paintings The gallery will be overflowing with drawings, paintings, using all your senses to experience your surroundings? of plants by artist Jennifer Wanner. At first glance, the sculptures, prints, mixed media work and more, created by Come to AGSA and we will teach you how to smell paintings appear to be traditional botanical renderings but students from St. Albert’s high schools. For seventeen years, the fresh air and hear the birds sing as you explore the Art Explorers will soon learn that they are actually based on the gallery has proudly exhibited work from the community’s landscape paintings of Mike Dendy, Christine Elmgren and research into genetically modified plants! A short stop- aspiring young artists in this annual exhibition. Art Explorers Tom Yurko. Put on your hiking boots and climb a majestic animation video is also part of this exhibition. Channeling will be amazed at both the quantity and the quality of the art mountain or wander down a tree-lined forest path with the the inspiration they receive from Wanner’s work, students on display. And once again, the always-popular High Energy sun on your face. An imaginative outdoor expedition into will create their own imaginative botanical illustrations using Scavenger Hunt will have students scurrying around the gallery some of nature’s special places & spaces awaits you at the special watercolour pencils! in search of illusive images in the art! gallery in February! Art Explorers with a painting by Pierre Bataillard from the Vessels exhibition (2010)

My students absolutely loved the program and it fit very well into the Grade 1 curriculum. Check out our new website for a complete program listing, I am always so impressed at how well your including images, descriptions and online registration! 6 7 staff makes art come alive for the children! Studio Programs

Favorites | Art and Science Curriculum Clay: Grades K – 3 Youth Beaver 15 Holidays | Art and Religion Curriculum Owl (Grade 2+) 15 Glowing Pumpkins 11 Animal Pencil Holder 15 Angel Wall Plaque 11 Elephant World 15 Good Shepherd Plaque 11 Creative Expression | Art Curriculum Gallery Madonna and Child 12 Rose for Mom 15 Manger and Star 12 Family Plaque 15 O Christmas Tree 12 Easter Cross (Grade 2+) 12 Clay: Grades 6 – 12 St. Albert Place • Arden Theatre Lobby • 5 St. Anne Street Cultural | Art and Social Studies Curriculum I’m Unique (K or special needs) 12 Holidays | Art and Religion Curriculum Friends Forever (Grade 1+) 12 NEW Christmas Tree Tea Light 15 The Youth Gallery provides youth with opportunities to exhibit their artwork, building confidence and Parent Plaques (Grade 1+) 12 Standing Angel or figure 15 encouraging artistic development. Art can be displayed for a month or more at a time, depending on Inuit Inspired Plaque 12 Cultural | Art and Social Studies Curriculum the number of bookings received throughout the year. NEW Nunavut Kayak (Grade 2+) 12 Storytellers 16 Inuksuk 12 Turtle Shell Rattle 16 NEW Inuksuk Photo Frame 12 Husk Face Inspired Masks 16 This unique gallery is located in the Arden Theatre lobby within St. Albert Place. Art displays may Favorites | Art and Science Curriculum Greek Frieze or Vase 16 coincide with school events such as awards nights, Children’s Festival or concerts at the Arden. The Tyrannosaurus Rex 12 Aztec Feathered Serpent (Grade 8) 16 Arden welcomes approximately 60,000 visitors each year…what a great way to showcase our talented Under the Sea 12 Favorites | Art and Math Curriculum youth! Bird’s Nest (Grade 1+) 12 Easter Island Sculpture 16 Brilliant Butterfly or Dragonfly 12 Creative Expression | Art Curriculum Metamorphosis (Grade 2+) 13 Submissions of two-dimensional artwork such as drawing, painting, printmaking, fiber arts and collage Terra Cotta Warriors 16 Ladybug 13 are suitable. Teachers may display student work created through school programs, studio workshops Lucky Dragon 16 Frogs and Toads or Salamander 13 or home. Five display cases, each measuring 3’ x 8’, follow the staircase up from the foyer into the Animal Face 13 Multimedia: Grades K – 12 Theatre. Cases are secured with plexi-glass fronts and framed with clay tiles. Bears (Grade 2+) 13 Penguin 13 Cultural | Art and Social Studies Curriculum Please contact Shannon Vance at 780-651-5735 or email [email protected] if you would like Owl (Grade 2+) 13 Christmas Around the World Part 1 (Grades K - 4) 17 an opportunity to display student work. Creative Expression | Art Curriculum Christmas Around the World Part 2 (Grade 4+) 17 Elfin Tooth Fairy 13 Worry Dolls of South America (Grade 3+) 17 Tie for Dad (Grades K-1) 13 NEW Huichol Yarn Painting (Grade 3+) 17 Creative Expression | Art Curriculum Clay: Grades 3 – 5 Window Clings (Grade 3+) 17 Glass Fusing Ornaments (Grade 3+) 17 Holidays | Art and Religion Curriculum Paper Arts (Grade 4+) 17 Ho Ho Ho 14 NEW Needle Felting Owl in 3D (Grade 6+) 17 Manger Scene (Grade 4+) 14 Standing Angel (Grade 4+) 14 Cultural | Art and Social Studies Curriculum Alberta Flag 14 Alberta Rose & Pines 14 Grain Elevator Scene 14 Masks and Peru 14 Storytellers 14 Northwest Coastal Inspired Masks 14 Tipi Scene 14 Husk Face Inspired Mask (Grade 5+) 16 Tunisian Doors 14 Tunisian Camels 14

8 9 Studio Programs Clay Workshops Booking a Bus Lunch

Workshops take place on weekdays in the St. Albert Professional instruction inspires each student to create * IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO CHECK BUS DEPARTURE Lunch space is limited at St. Albert Place so if you are Place Visual Arts Studios (located at 5 St. Anne Street) a project with success, in a child and student centered TIMES BEFORE BOOKING YOUR PROGRAM. MANY coming for an 11:30 – 1:00 workshop, please try to environment. Students are given the opportunity to use their BUS COMPANIES MUST DEPART BEFORE 2:30 arrange a snack or lunch at school. If attending one Visual arts workshops enhance school curricula in social imaginations, make choices and express themselves in a visual program after another, a lunch space may be booked studies, language arts, science, religion and math, as well form. Instructors can adapt projects for students of different If you need to leave earlier than the scheduled time, please for you, as available, in the Atrium, front foyer or as art. Professional artist facilitators encourage students religious faiths, cultural backgrounds or special needs. discuss with the registration office when booking. Some Visual Arts wing hallway of St. Albert Place. Other sites to express themselves visually. Hands-on workshops afternoon times are flexible. At the workshop, communicate are available if attending a program at the Little White offer students unique opportunities to explore a variety Clay requires drying and firing time. To avoid disappointment, bus times with the instructor at the beginning of the class so School, Train Station or Gallery. of materials, equipment and techniques, which are not let students know they have to leave their work at the studio. students are not rushed at the end. available in regular school programs. Clay projects are usually ready about two weeks after the workshop. A message will be left at school when projects are Inspirational artist-led demonstrations provide technical ready for pick-up. instruction and guidance. An art history perspective enriches programs where applicable. The highest priority is to stimulate each student’s imagination and creativity. Last Day for Clay

Workshops take place in three large studios, each furnished If clay projects are required for a certain occasion, please note with specialized art equipment. Studios are located in the the last day for workshops. Consider attending workshops picturesque Sturgeon River valley. About 600 workshops are earlier in the year and have students finish projects closer to scheduled per year. the special day. Ideas on painting and finishing techniques will be provided at the workshop.

Studio Availability • Halloween October 14 • Christmas December 9 Clay workshops are available Monday to Friday. Three • Easter March 16 Aztec Feathered Serpent Book Ends clay classes can attend at the same time on a Wednesday, • Mother’s Day April 20 Thursday or Friday (Maximum 9 classes per day). Two • Father’s Day May 25 Special Request Clay… classes could exchange programs with the Gallery, Museum, Heritage Sites or other Studio workshops. Student fee Instructors always welcome the opportunity to create unique projects designed exclusively for your class. Please contact discount applies when one class books two or more Project Pick-up registration if you have a specific clay project in mind. programs on the same day. Projects can be picked-up at the Painting Studio Monday thru Workshops run 3 times a day (times can be adjusted Friday, 8:00 am to 5:30 pm. If you need to make after hours if necessary): arrangements, please contact the Education Programmer at Clay: Grades K - 3 • 9:30 - 11:00 780-651-5735 or email [email protected] with your • 11:30 - 1:00 name, school, day and time you wish to pick-up projects. Holidays - Art and Religion Good Shepherd Plaque - *Available until December 9th - • 1:30 - 3:00 Goodwill and caring are the universal themes portrayed in Curriculum this clay relief of a shepherd tending sheep. In three rooms: Project pick-up is self-serve. As you enter the studio, you • Pottery Studio • Painting Studio • Multi-craft Studio will find labeled boxes on red shelves. If the Painting Studio door is locked, use the phone located by the Studios to Glowing Pumpkins - *Available until October 14th - Many Kindergarten classes require 9:30 - 11:00 workshop call Security. Students design an expressive pumpkin face that sits upright times so please consider registering for 11:30 or 1:30 time on a slab of clay. A tea light can be placed behind the face for other grades. and set in a window for a spooky effect!

Angel Wall Plaque - *Available until December 9th - A charming angel holds a candle to spread a message of love.

MAKE A DAY OF IT! Profiles Public Art Gallery has changed its name to Art Gallery of St. Albert (AGSA)! The Art Explorers Tour A discount of $0.25 per student per program is applied when the same class books two or more programs on the Program takes place at the gallery on 19 Perron Street same date. The discount applies to any combination of 10 but the AGSA Studio Programs take place at the visual art Arts and Heritage programs. 11 studios located in the west wing of St. Albert Place. Inuit Inspired Plaque - Students create a two-dimensional Penguin – Students delight in making this cheerful little Inuit inspired figure, complete with traditional clothing. penguin, as they shape the body, head, tail and flippers. • Complements the Inuit program at the Museum Owl (Grade 2+) – Did you know there are close to 40 Nunavut Kayak - Students create a three-dimensional different species of owl in North America and the Great Inuit figure sitting in a traditional Inuit kayak. Horned Owl has been chosen as Alberta’s provincial bird? • Complements the Inuit program at the Museum Students learn to sculpt an owl of their choice.

Inuksuk - An inuksuk (ee-nook-sook) is a stone landmark Creative Expression - Art that guides travelers. Traditionally, Inuit people in the Arctic Nunavut Kayak Curriculum built them where the landscape had few distinguishing features. Students shape clay to build a standing structure. Elfin Tooth Fairy – This enchanting winged fairy, mounted Madonna and Child - *Available until December 9th – • Complements the Inuit program at the Museum on a tooth-shaped plaque, holds out a bowl to carefully This project provides a simple approach for young students protect little lost teeth. to celebrate the birth of Christ, portraying Mary and child. Inuksuk Photo Frame - Students create a hanging photo frame inspired by traditional inuksuks (suitable for any 4x6” Tie for Dad – This unique necktie is a fun project for Manger and Star - *Available until December 9th - photo or request a special size). Makes a great gift! Father’s Day! Students learn to cut a clay slab into a tie This nativity plaque depicts baby Jesus in a manger of straw. • Complements the Inuit program at the Museum shape and then use different clay tools to decorate it just the A guiding star shines down on the manger scene. Penguin way dad likes! O Christmas Tree - *Available until December 9th - Favorites - Art and Science Working with a slab of clay, students create a festive Metamorphosis - Using coils and pressed shapes on a long Christmas tree. Branches are textured and decorated with Curriculum slab of clay, students show the stages of development from ornaments. caterpillar, to cocoon, to butterfly. Perfect for the patio or Tyrannosaurus Rex - These fascinating prehistoric giants garden! that once roamed the earth are recreated in clay sculpture. Easter Cross - *Available until March 16th - Always a favorite with young students! If you have another Students design an Easter Cross on a slab of clay with Ladybug - This adorable little ladybug has been changed dinosaur in mind, please make a special request. draped cloth and Easter lilies. This project is a wonderful from previous years and is now sitting quietly on a leaf. keepsake and will help students to remember the sacrifice Chenille antennae will be provided. Another wonderful Under the Sea - Using a variety of hand-building Jesus made for humanity. piece of art for the patio or garden. techniques, students create a plaque depicting life under the ocean’s waves. Frogs, Toads or Salamanders - Students learn the Cultural - Art and difference between frogs and toads and then make their Bird’s Nest (Grade 1+) - These pottery nests are complete very own frog sitting on a lily pad. As an alternative, make Social Studies Curriculum with a mother bird on a branch and eggs in a nest. A great a special request for a lizard or salamander lounging on a workshop for spring! smooth stone. I’m Unique (Kindergarten) - Children create a figure of themselves on a slab of clay. Makes a treasured gift for Brilliant Butterfly - Using coils and pressed shapes on a Animal Face - Previously named Monkey Face and Teddy anyone special. slab of clay, students create their version of a beautiful, Bear Face, students are encouraged to recreate the facial brilliant butterfly or dragonfly. Special request any other features of an animal chosen by their teacher. Interesting Friends Forever (Grade 1+) - Celebrate friendship with this insect being studied in the classroom. It makes a great facts and instruction on crucial details will enable students to charming clay relief plaque depicting two friends outdoor yard art gift! successfully depict one specific animal.

Mom and Me, Dad and Me or My Grownup and Me Bear (Grade 2+) – Did you know there are 3 different (Grade 1+) - Students make themselves and another figure bear species in North America? Can you tell the differences on a plaque. For Grade 3, you may request a three-figure between a black bear, grizzly and polar bear? Learn how to plaque, where students make themselves and two others. model the most distinguishing features of any one of these Be sure to inform registration of your preference. bear species and have your students take home projects they can really be proud of! Metamorphosis

This is an excellent way to expose students to clay work and to learn the proper technique for using tools. Our school is very impressed with the instructors. An excellent job of teaching! 12 13 Easter Cross Inuksuk Photo Frame Clay: Grades 3 - 5 Favourites - Art and Science Curriculum

Beaver – The beaver is the largest rodent in North America. No Holidays - Art and Religion Grain Elevator Scene - Built in 1906 and 1929, two other creature has the ability to affect our wetlands more than elevators still stand side-by-side at the St. Albert Grain Curriculum the Canadian beaver. Students learn how to build an impressive Elevator Park. Students capture the iconic grain elevators in a three-dimensional form. Special request a marsh three-dimensional project, including a train for transporting scene with a beaver building his dam. Ho Ho Ho - *Available until December 9th - grain. Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Pére Noël, Kris Kringle, Santa Owl (Grade 2+) – Did you know there are close to 40 different Claus… a celebrated figure who gives presents to children Masks and Peru - Students create masks inspired by the species of owl in North America and the Great Horned Owl and the poor. Students learn about sculpting facial features. ancient cultures of Peru. The instructor will recommend paint finishing techniques at the workshop. has been chosen as Alberta’s provincial bird? Students learn to sculpt an owl of their choice. Manger Scene (Grade 4+) - *Available until December 9th - • Complements the Inuit program at the Museum Students create a detailed, 3-D nativity scene that stands on Animal Pencil Holder - A whimsical animal head decorates Bison Pencil Holder its own. It’s the perfect gift for parents or grandparents. Storytellers (Grade 3+) - This workshop is based on contemporary and traditional clay figurines made by potters the front of this pencil holder and a tail is added on the back. Teachers may decide on an animal being studied in the Standing Angel (Grade 4+) - in New Mexico and parts of South America, such as Peru. classroom, or they may choose to celebrate Chinese New Year *Available until December 9th - Students will enjoy making It emphasizes the importance of the storyteller, the listener, with 2011 being year of the rabbit or 2012 being year of the Christmas Tree Tea Light this standing sculpture, complete with wings and halo. This oral traditions and telling your own story. dragon. angel also clasps a small wax candle to light up the Christmas season. Northwest Coastal Inspired Masks - First Nations bands along the northwest coast of Canada, such as the Kwakiutl, Elephant World - Elephants are fascinating animals and have played an important role in many cultures. Students create a Clay: Grades 6 - 12 Cultural - Art and used highly stylized designs to fashion traditional ceremonial masks. Contemporary masks can also be found today. side view of their elephant using a high relief method. Teachers may specify Asian or African. Social Studies Curriculum Students create masks that incorporate animal, human Many of the projects found under younger grade and supernatural traits, using bold, flowing lines and ovoid categories can be modified to challenge the Alberta Flag - The Alberta provincial flag depicts the shapes. Creative Expression – Art Curriculum provincial shield with St. George’s Cross, blue sky, snow- abilities of older students. Tunisian Camel - In Tunisia, camels are the main source of capped mountains, green hills, prairie fields, and wheat Rose for Mom – This beautiful rose will never fade! Students transportation across the hot, sandy desert. What type of sheaves. Students design the shield on a slab of clay that learn to fashion a rose with lovely petals, leaves and even a little camel is native to this region? Learn to tell the difference resembles a flag waving in the wind. bud. It’s the perfect Mother’s Day gift. Holidays - Art and Religion between the Dromedary (Arabian) camel with its single Alberta Rose & Pines - This is a popular workshop that hump and the Bactrian (Asian) camel with its two humps. Curriculum celebrates Alberta. Students cut a slab of clay into the shape • Complements the St. Albert and Tunisia program Family Plaque - This delightful wall plaque captures each at the Museum student’s family in clay relief sculpture. A favourite with older Christmas Tree Tea Light - of the province and design a wild rose and lodge pole pines, students who love to portray their family members in great *Available until December 9th - In this advanced symbols of Alberta. Tunisian Doors - Tunisia is well known for its beautifully detail, including the family pet! workshop, students learn to roll, attach and join coils to decorated doors. Wooden doors are adorned with nail head build a hollow form. Their Christmas tree can then be designs and symbols meant to represent the owner’s beliefs. embellished with all the trimmings, including decorative Doors are most often painted a vivid blue to represent blue holes for light to shine through once a tea light has been sky and good fortune. placed inside. It makes the perfect Christmas gift for older • Complements the St. Albert and Tunisia program students! at the Museum

Tipi Scene - Using a range of hand building techniques, Standing Angel or Figure - shapes and details, students make a three dimensional *Available until December 9th - As well as the angel scene. for Grade 4 and 5 listed above, older students can make a • Complements the Tipi As Home program standing angel. It’s a wonderful piece they can display each at the Museum. season.

Husk Face Inspired Mask - Description on page 16. My Family Plaque

(Art Gallery of St. Albert) is worth the trip to St. Albert – excellent program Tunisian Door 14 with an excellent end product. 15 Cultural - Art and Favourites - Art and Math Curriculum Multimedia: Grades K - 12 Social Studies Curriculum Easter Island Sculpture - Students create a sculpture inspired by the giant stone monoliths, known as Moai, that dot the Cultural - Art and Social Glass Fusing Ornament (Grade 3+) - Design a dazzling Turtle Shell Rattle - In the Iroquois tradition, the turtle coastline of the Easter Islands. These sculptures are perfect Studies Curriculum glass ornament using cut glass, chips, fusing stringers, is a symbol of creation and life. Rattles were made from to hold eyeglasses and will use the students understanding confetti glass and rods. These are assembled on a three inch snapping turtle shells and used in healing ceremonies. of geometry to cut clay slabs into useful sections for their Christmas Around the World I (Grades K - 4) - square piece of clear glass and fired in a kiln. With a wide Students make a rattle shaped like a turtle shell with a turtle sculpture. *Available December 12th - 23rd - Each student assortment of colours, students are inspired to create their shaped head and neck for a handle. This project really completes three art projects and learns about stories and own fused glass masterpiece for Christmas, Mother’s Day or rattles after firing! Creative Expression - traditions celebrated in other countries: the Story of Tinsel Father’s Day. A small faux gold-leaf hanger is included.

from the Ukraine, the Poinsettia from Mexico and the Husk Face Masks (Grade 5+) - With designs inspired by Art Curriculum Paper Arts (Grade 4+) - Discover the amazing world of Pomander from England and the United States. traditional braided corn husk masks of the Iroquois, students paper! Students explore paper folding, punching, and use coil techniques to create a wall mask, adding texture Terra Cotta Warriors – Ancient Chinese emperors built embossing on different paper types, including a variety Christmas Around the World II (Grades 4+) - and detail with special clay tools. complex tombs filled with treasure, which were guarded by of handmade papers. They will also be introduced to a *Available December 12th - 23rd - Stories of angels or terra cotta statues of horses and soldiers. Students fashion their variety of supplies such as unique embellishments and messengers spreading news of love and peace are found in Greek Frieze or Vase - Using high relief techniques on own terra cotta warriors based on the statues found in Xi’an, decorative paper punches. Students make unique cards and many different cultures. Make your very own tassel angel a slab of clay, students can choose to make an urn on a China. An impressive art project for older students! bookmarks, designed to engage their creativity! decoration and discover the universal tradition of card plaque or Greek frieze imagery. A variety of designs are making and gift giving. provided to inspire unique pieces of art! Lucky Dragon - This magnificent dragon’s head holds a special pearl in its mouth. According to Chinese legend, anyone who Needle Felting Owl in 3D (Grade 5+) - Felting is one of Storytellers - This workshop is based on contemporary and is brave enough to rub this pearl is sure to have good luck. The Worry Dolls of South America (Grade 3+) - These small the oldest fiber crafts, dating back to 6300 BC. It predates traditional clay figurines made by potters in New Mexico perfect project to celebrate Chinese New Year! and colourful dolls are traditionally made in South American spinning, weaving and knitting. Needle felting is now a and parts of South America, such as Peru. It emphasizes the cultures, such as those in Peru and Guatemala. According to popular fiber arts craft conducted without the use of water. importance of the storyteller, the listener, oral traditions and legend, if you tell your worries to a doll before going to bed Students use special barbed felting needles as sculpting telling your own story. at night and put it under your pillow, you will wake up the tools. The barbs catch the scales on the wool fibers and next morning and your worries will be gone. Students learn push them through the layers of wool, tangling them and Aztec Feathered Serpent - The Aztec civilization to make a worry doll with colourful wire and embroidery binding them together. Fine details can be achieved using spanned 3000 years in its entirety. At the height of its thread. They then decorate a small wooden box in which to this technique. power in 1521, the Aztec empire fell to the Spanish army keep their doll safe. under the leadership of Hernán Cortés. Motecuhzoma II had welcomed the Spanish as messengers of the god Huichol Yarn Painting (Grade 3+) - Small agricultural Quetzalcoatl or the Feathered Serpent. settlements of Indigenous people known as the Huichol (pronounced Whettchol) live in the Sierra Madre mountains of northwest Mexico. The Huichol people have an oral tradition and document their ancient wisdom through their artwork. Students will use bright, contrasting colours of yarn to express meaning through traditional symbols such as people, animals and nature. Symmetry, balance and geometric elements will be explored.

Creative Expressiong - Art Curriculum

Window Clings (Grade 3+) - Create jewel-like designs that look like stained glass. Using their own drawings, students use synthetic leading to make an outline on a thick piece of plastic. Coloured glass stains are then used to fill in these areas. After drying, the window clings can be peeled off the Needle Felting Owl in 3D Huichol Yarn Painting Lucky Dragon plastic and will adhere to glass surfaces.

Aztec Feathered Serpent 16 17 Early Arts Outreach Programs Preschool and Kindergarten Curriculum Links: Art, Math, and Science Workshops take place at your school. An art room with Developmental Skills: Fine & Gross Motor Skills Outreach Programs access to water is ideal but workshops can also be held My Shapes and Sizes Book - Children learn how shapes in a classroom, library, stage or gymnasium. If there is can be used to form people, places and things. They will more than one class on the same day, please assign one create their own special felt book with felt shapes and tell a room for all workshops to take place in so that supplies story about it. The concepts of shape, form, space and size do not have to be moved two or three times. will be introduced. Early Arts Outreach: Outreach: Grade 5+ Class Preparation: Curriculum Links: Art, Math, Science, and Social Studies My Masterpieces - Children explore colour, shape and Preschool and Kindergarten Please cover desks and tables with paper before the Abstract Art 21 texture with paint, collage and a variety of fun techniques. Curriculum Links: Creative & Cultural Expression, instructor arrives. Kraft paper is best for clay and messy Linoleum Printing 21 Inspired by the works of celebrated artists, they create Fine & Gross Motor Skills, Math and Science workshops. A large central table is needed for some Mixed-Media Watercolour 21 their own great masterpieces. The number of activities will My Shapes and Sizes Book 19 workshops, such as Decorative Eggs, Inuit Inspired depend on the children’s age and class size. My Masterpieces 19 Printmaking, and Linoleum Printing. Access to water is Rainbow Fish and Very Hungry Caterpillar 19 Last Day for Projects essential for cleanup whether it be a sink in the classroom, Rainbow Fish and Very Hungry Caterpillar - Based on Very Messy Art Making 19 bathrooms, or a large bucket filled with water. Remember these familiar books, children explore collage techniques Marvelous Monoprints 19 If a project is required for a certain occasion, please note the last to wear nametags and remember to dress for art! day for workshops. Consider booking workshops earlier in the year to create colourful fish, very hungry caterpillars and beautiful butterflies. Reading of the stories and number of and have students finish projects closer to the special day. Visual arts workshops enhance school curricula in social Outreach: Grades 1 - 3 activities will depend on the children’s age and class size. In • Christmas - December 23 studies, language arts, science, religion and math, as well Curriculum Links: Art, Math, Science, and Social Studies preparation, read and discuss stories, if possible. • Mother’s Day - May 4 as art. Professional artist facilitators encourage students Basic Batik 20 Required: A parent volunteer or teacher who will cut out the • Father’s Day - June 8 to express themselves visually. Hands on workshops offer Marvelous Monoprints 20 butterfly wings when dry and attach the body. students unique opportunities to explore a variety of Very Messy Art Making 20 materials, equipment and techniques not often available in Outreach Clay Space: The Final Frontier - Where in the universe are regular school programs. Outreach: Grade 2+ we? What is this planet called Earth? Learn about the sun, If your school has a kiln and someone who can fire it, most Studio moon, stars and planets through art. Each student creates Inspirational artist-led demonstrations provide technical Curriculum Links: Art, Math, Science, and Social Studies Program clay workshops are possible, using H435 clay. Three a brilliantly coloured poster and explores concepts of space, instruction and guidance. An art history perspective Inuit-Inspired Printmaking 20 workshops can be scheduled on the same day, with the instructor distance and light with a variety of specialty paints and enriches programs where applicable. The highest priority is Inuksuk 20 remaining in one specified room. stamping techniques. Self Portraits 20 to stimulate each student’s imagination and creativity. Wonderful Watercolours 20 Artist in Residence Very Messy Art Making - Roll up your sleeves and get Check out our new website (www.artgalleryofstalbert.com) ready to get messy! Children explore different mediums and for a full listing of workshops with images and descriptions. Outreach: Grade 3+ Schools may book multiple workshops in the Outreach Program. create three works of art: a watercolour painting on artist- Students and teachers work with our Outreach instructor over a grade paper, an acrylic painting and a pinch pot using air-dry Curriculum Links: Art, Math, Science, and Social Studies period of days, weeks or months. Another alterative may be a clay. Students work in groups of four or more to share Decorative Easter Eggs 20 program designed for the entire school to take part in, such as all supplies. Don’t forget to cover desks and tables for a mess! Masks and Peru 20 students creating a clay tile, which can later be assembled together Pastel Pictures 21 on a feature wall. Marvelous Monoprints (Kindergarten) - This workshop is Window Clings 21 * Special rates apply for Artist in Residence bookings at your school. a great way to introduce children to printmaking techniques. Outreach: Grade 4+ They explore line, pattern, texture and colour, and make Special Request Workshops one-of-a-kind prints. Monoprints are made on paper, using Curriculum Links: Art, Math, Science, and Social Studies tempera paints. Required: large table covered with kraft Pen and Wash 21 As areas of the curriculum change, instructors welcome the paper (for printing station), desks covered with paper, access Sketchapalooza 21 challenge of developing new workshop ideas for individual classes. to water and drying space! Nature on Canvas 21 Please feel free to discuss your new idea or theme with Registration if you do not see it listed in our program guide. We will always do our very best to accommodate your special request!

Stella was wonderful. She was patient My Shapes and Sizes Book and polite with the children and very knowledgeable. She encouraged the 18 19 children to be unique in their creations Grades 1 - 3 Wonderful Watercolours - Students learn the basics Pastel Pictures - Pastel is a unique media that can be used to Grades 5+ Curriculum Links: Art, Science of working with colour through watercolour paints. The express a wide range of moods. Traditional images can include Curriculum Links: Art and Science instructor will lead students through a series of techniques landscapes, seascapes and plants. Students learn the basics of Basic Batik - Batik is a kind of fiber art using wax and dyes or to create colorful paintings of animals, plants or landscapes. working with these smooth, rich crayons that put thick, intense Abstract Art – With abstract painting, students move paint. Wax is applied to fabric in a design. The wax serves as a Please choose a theme and indicate at registration. colour on the paper. Please choose a theme and indicate away from formal representation. In this exciting workshop, resist, preventing the paint from reaching the fabric where it is at registration: flowers, under the sea, Alberta landscapes, students look at abstract art from its beginnings in the applied. This technique can be applied in layers with different cityscapes or any special request. 20th century. They experiment with colour and different colours. Students create a wax resist on cotton fabric using wax applications of acrylic paint on art paper. Wear art-proof blocks. Window Clings - Discover the fascinating history of stained clothing! glass. Synthetic leading and a variety of glass stains are used Marvelous Monoprints - This workshop is a great way to to make beautiful jewel-like designs. Students work on a thick Linoleum Printing – A fantastic printmaking workshop! introduce children to printmaking techniques. They explore plastic surface. After the product dries at school for a few Using professional linoleum cutting tools, students carve line, pattern, texture and colour, and make one-of-a-kind days, the images are peeled off the plastic and will adhere to their own designs into Safety-Cut linoleum blocks. These prints. Monoprints are made on paper, using tempera paints. windows, mirrors or other glass surfaces. You may choose a blocks are then inked and transferred onto specialty paper. Required: large table covered with kraft paper (for printing theme and indicate at registration. An information sheet will Students are shown techniques for printing without a press station), desks covered with paper and set in groups of four, be sent before the workshop. to create some stunning imagery! access to water and lots of drying space! Mixed-Media Watercolour – Using a combination of wax, Very Messy Art Making - Roll up your sleeves and get ready Grades 4+ watercolour and salt, students create a winter forest scene, to get messy! Children explore different mediums and create Curriculum Links: Art, Social Studies, underwater scene or flowers in a vase. This mixed-media three works of art: a watercolour painting on artist-grade Language Arts and Science workshop uses both drawing and painting on watercolour paper, an acrylic painting and a pinch pot using air-dry clay. Wonderful Watercolours paper. Makes a unique gift! Students work in groups of four or more to share supplies. Pen and Wash - Pen and Wash is a classic technique used Don’t forget to cover desks and tables for a mess! with both pen and watercolour. The combination of finely Grades 3+ drawn lines and delicate watercolour washes evokes great Curriculum Links: Art, Math, Science, and Social Studies visual beauty, whatever the chosen subject. A workshop with great results! Grades 2+ Decorative Easter Eggs - In many cultures the egg Curriculum Links: Art, Social Studies, and Science represents new life and creation. Traditionally made during Sketchapalooza – Sketchbook journals are a valuable tool of Inuit-Inspired Printmaking - Inuit printmaking began with the time of Easter, the colourful and intricate art of pysanka discovery for artists of all ages. Students learn that sketchbooks the people of Nunavut, then known as Kinngait, about 55 uses patterns, colours and symbols to celebrate spring. are a place where observations, imagination and memory come years ago. Walrus tusks or rocks were carved and then inked Pysanka is derived from the Ukrainian word pysaty meaning together. They are a place for writing, drawing, watercolour and printed onto paper. Artworks are based on traditional Inuit to write. Designs are drawn on an egg with melted and acrylic painting, pen and wash, printmaking and collage. stories and everyday scenes of life. Students use scratch-foam beeswax using an instrument known as a kystka and the This is a resource for both students and teachers in learning to create prints inspired by Inuit images. Required: large table egg is dyed a number of times using traditional colours. about process-driven discovery. covered with kraft paper (for printing station), desks covered After the workshop, the wax is removed to reveal the whole with paper, access to water and a large drying space (prints dry design, bringing it to life. Required: large table covered Nature on Canvas – Nature scenes offer excellent quickly, could use hallway). with kraft paper (for egg dye station), an oven and a parent opportunities to introduce detail and texture into artwork. volunteer or teacher who will melt wax from eggs after the Students may choose specific animals where the focus is on fur, Inuksuk - An Inuksuk is a structure to mark or guide the way of workshop. skin and feathers, or they may choose to explore plants, trees, travelers in the North. This program looks at the traditional life forests or landscapes. Using mixed media on canvas, students and art of the Inuit people. Students create their own structure Masks and Peru - Students explore connections between will learn to create some spectacular images found in nature. with air-dry clay. Firing is not required. cultures by looking at the significance of mask making. They create an image, inspired by ancient cultures of Peru, on a Self Portraits - Students explore self-portraits by looking at slab of clay. Choose air-dry clay or studio H435 clay (if you examples of artists such as Marc Chagall, Leonardo da Vinci and will be firing projects in a kiln). Required: cover desks with Frida Kahlo. Students explore aspects of self-identity and create kraft paper. their own self-portrait using pen and watercolour crayons. • Complements the Peru and The Aboriginal People With a touch of a paintbrush, the crayon markings instantly of Canada program with Museum Outreach. change into a lively watercolour painting of themselves!

Window Clings This was a wonderful learning experience for the students. Our instructor was superb! She gave clear step-by-step 20 instructions and was very pleasant. 21 Pen and Wash St. Albert Heritage Sites

Little White School

Grade 1 - An “Olde Time” Classroom 24 Grade 2 - My School - Past and Present 24 Grade 4 + - Francophone History in St. Albert 24 Grade 5 + - A History Lesson at the Little White School 24 St. Albert Grain Elevator Park Programs at a Glance Grade 1 - Landmarks 25 Grade 2 - Work and Play 25 Preschool Winter Animals Museum 28 Grade 3 - Traders, Trappers and Coureurs des Bois 25 Spring Along the River Museum 28 Grade 4 + - Communities That Grow 25 Kindergarten Bears Museum 31 Grade 5 + - Boom and Bust 25 I Belong Museum 29 Grade 1 An “Olde Time” Classroom Little White School 24 Father Lacombe Chapel Landmarks Grain Elevator Park 25 An Early Métis Community Museum 29 Grades 1 - 3 - Living Long Ago 26 Grades 1 - 3 Living Long Ago Father Lacombe Chapel 26 Grades 2 - 3 - This Little White Chapel 26 This Little White Chapel Father Lacombe Chapel 26 Grades 4 + - The Fur Trade Game 26 Grades 4 + - Mission Hill Tours 26 Grade 2 My School - Past and Present Little White School 24 Work and Play St. Albert Grain Elevator Park 25 The Inuit Museum 29 Grade 3 Peru and the Aboriginal People of Canada Museum 29 St. Albert and Tunisia Museum 31 Arts and Heritage would like to thank Rocks and Minerals Museum 31 Traders, Trappers and Coureurs de Bois St. Albert Grain Elevator Park 25

Grade 4 Francophone History in St. Albert Little White School 24 Communities that Grow St. Albert Grain Elevator Park 25 Grade 4 - 12 The Fur Trade Game Father Lacombe Chapel 26 Mission Hill Tours Father Lacombe Chapel 26 for their generous support of our The Tipi as Home Museum 29 school programs Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Museum 31 Grade 5 A History Lesson Little White School 24 Boom and Bust St. Albert Grain Elevator Park 25 Grade 5 - 12 First Nations, Métis and Inuit Museum 30 Grade 6 The History of Local Government Museum 31 Grade 6 - 12 St. Albert Street Names Museum 32 Junior High Collective Rights Museum 30 All Ages Historic St. Albert Tours Museum 30 NEW for 2011 - 2012!

With the opening of the Founder’s Walk in St. Albert in 2011, we can now incorporate this walk through history into our education programs and walking tours. For more information, 22 please contact [email protected]. 23 Little White School Grain Elevator Park

Join us at the Little White School for programs YEAR The St. Albert Grain Elevator Park is located on Meadowview ROUND! When you walk into the two-roomed school, Drive and includes a train station and two grain elevators, built first opened in 1948, it is like stepping back in time. in 1906 and 1929. Our programs encourage historical thinking You and your students will enjoy learning how school through hands-on activities and tours of the elevators. This is an has changed over the years as an interpreter leads you outdoor historic site, students need to dress for the weather and through old fashioned school lessons and tells you wear appropriate footwear (no sandals). Programs are available more about the rules that children had to follow at Tuesday through Friday, beginning in late April each year until school over 60 years ago. early fall.

An “Olde Time” Classroom A History Lesson Landmarks Communities that Grow Grade 1 | My Community Grade 5+ | Stories of Canada, Historical Grade 1 | Landmarks Grade 4+ | Agriculture and Community, Visit our historic school and let our interpreter guide you Information, Historic Ways of Life Your students will have the opportunity to create a colourful Historic Sites around! Mixing fun with the rules of the past, your younger The Little White School is a landmark in St. Albert and a landmark of their own to take home, make a postcard The St. Albert grain elevators tell a story about agriculture students will compare and contrast their modern classroom great place to learn about the way things “used to be”. telling someone special about their day at the grain elevator and change over time in the community. We want to share with the historic one at the Little White School. Included in Walk into the building, up the wooden stairs and feel the park and play a game. When time and weather permit that story with you and your students in an interactive this program is a craft activity for your students to take back past all around you as you find a seat at an old wooden we will take a short walk over to see the inside of one of way. Working in smaller groups we tour through the to school. desk. Our teacher guides students through lessons that the elevators. The landmarks program is designed as an elevators and discover how they worked, plant seeds in the This program is intended as an introduction for include history, poetry, recitation, elocution and penmanship, introduction for younger students to a heritage site. garden and make a take-home craft as well. This program younger students to a heritage building and an using pen and ink. is designed to give students access to an historic site and interpretive setting. historic objects as they experience a little piece of history up Work and Play close on this site. Teach your own Class at Grade 2 | Life in a Prairie Town, Community My School - Past and Present the Little White School At the St. Albert Grain Elevator Park children will experience Grade 2 | Historic daily life what it was like to be a child many years ago. Each child will Boom and Bust School was different sixty to seventy years ago, at the Little Looking for a historic location to teach a social studies make a toy to take home, do a little baking, help around the Grade 5+ | The Great Depression, Economic lesson? Or perhaps you are searching for a unique place White School children have the opportunity to experience site by doing chores and then play some traditional games. Changes Over Time, Changing Ways of Life the past. Our classroom teacher will greet you at the to celebrate student achievements or demonstrate learning in Canada door and prepare your students to enter the school in an to parents. The Little White School is the perfect location! Using the historic grain elevators as our backdrop as well “appropriate manner”. Once everyone finds a seat, at a Initial greetings and introductions will be made by our very Traders, Trappers and Coureurs as pictures and stories from the depression era, students wooden desk in the classroom, instruction begins and the own school principal who will turn the classroom over to learn how farming areas like St. Albert were affected by teacher will guide students through a series of lessons as you for general instruction or presentations. For more des Bois the depression. A timeline and photos set the stage for they learn about the past and have a whole lot of fun along information, contact [email protected]. Grade 3+ our onsite activities which include writing with pen and ink, the way. Many early settlers of the St. Albert region participated in playing a game called Boom and Bust and visiting the 1929 the fur trade in ways you never imagined! Sign up to be grain elevator. Dress to be outdoors for part of this a voyageur and discover the kind of work you would be program! Francophone History in St. Albert expected to do, participate in the trap line scavenger hunt Grade 4+ | Francophone Presence in Western as students are challenged to think about what it was like to Canada, Local and Regional History, Stories live during the fur trade era. * Complements the Fur Trade Game program The Little White School is a unique place to step back in and the Francophone History program time and discover the Francophone heritage of St. Albert and central Alberta. In the historic classroom your class will explore the impact early Francophone families had in the DID YOU KNOW? region. Students learn to recognize Francophone influences in their local communities. Using their creativity along with photographs, maps, stories and historic posters your After an extensive restoration process, the students will create “headline news” as they design front- St. Albert Grain Elevator Park reopened in page of a newspaper. Summer 2011. The 1906 Brackman Ker Elevator and the 1929 Alberta Wheat Pool An “Olde Time” Classroom Elevator are two of Alberta’s provincially designated grain elevators. For more information on the restoration, future work and programs, please visit 24 www.museeheritage.com. 25 Students complete a fur trade activity in Traders, Trappers and Coureurs des Bois Father Lacombe Chapel

In 1861, Father Albert Lacombe and the Métis constructed a log building to serve the new St. Albert Roman Catholic Mission. This simple chapel, Alberta’s oldest building, became the center Musée Héritage of the thriving French speaking Métis settlement of St. Albert. Today the chapel has been restored to look much as it did in the early 1860’s. Come to the chapel and let the Historical Interpreters take you back to an earlier time. • Programs available May 15 – Labour Day Museum • All programs and tours available in French and English

Museum Programs Mission Statement Living Long Ago The Fur Trade Game Preschool Programs The Musée Héritage Museum is the keeper of the Grade 1-3 | My Community, Community in the Grade 4-7 | Fur Trade, Stories about Alberta: Preschool - Winter Animals 28 history, traditions and heritage of the St. Albert region. Past, Changes Over Time Land, Culture and People, Aboriginal Peoples Preschool - Spring Along the River 28 Together with the community, we build knowledge, What was it like to live long ago? What did people wear and When Father Lacombe came to Alberta in the 1800’s, the explore our relationship with the natural environment, eat? Join us at the Father Lacombe Chapel to discover the Métis, natives and trappers had one thing on their minds: Aboriginal Programs and celebrate historic diversity. answers to these questions and more. Children will have the trading. Join us at the chapel as we learn history by playing Kindergarten - I Belong 29 opportunity to help prepare bannock, create a take-home craft a game about the fur trade in Alberta. Your students will Grade 1 - An Early Métis Community 29 and share objects related to living life long ago. take on different roles as they deal their way through the Grade 2 - The Inuit 29 fur trade learning about the mission of St. Albert and the Grade 3 - Peru and the Aboriginal People of Canada 29 Exhibitions surrounding region along the way. Trade us an hour and a Grades 4-7 - The Tipi as Home 29 • The Mission Makers: Archbishop Taché, OMI Little White Chapel half of time for a field trip of fun and learning! Grades 5-12 - First Nations, Métis and Inuit (ENMI) 30 and Father Lacombe, OMI Grade 1-3 | Communities Working Together, Junior High / Highschool - Collective Rights 30 June – November 2011

People in the Community Mission Hill Tours • Take Your Best Shot! Have you ever heard the phrase, “If these walls could talk?” Individualized Programs November 22, 2011 – January 29, 2012 Well it definitely applies when you discover the Father Grade 5 - 12 | Alberta, Métis, First Nations, All Ages - Historic St. Albert Tours 30 Lacombe Chapel on Mission Hill in St. Albert. The community Francophone Histories, Stories of Mission Hill Education Kits along the Sturgeon River has grown and changed since 1861, and St. Albert’s Beginnings History and St. Albert All in a Day’s Work (Pioneer kit) 32 but the Father Lacombe Chapel has been here all along. Over There are many facets of Alberta’s history that come Grades 4-8 - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 31 The Métis (2 kits - Lifestyle kit and Voyageur kit) 32 time the chapel has been moved and used in many different together on Mission Hill. St. Albert, the oldest continuously Grade 3 - St. Albert and Tunisia 31 The Bison 32 ways and has a unique story to share with students and inhabited, non-fortified, agricultural community in Alberta, Grade 6 - The History of Local Government 31 Education kits are $10.00 per week each teachers. Come inside the chapel and discover history as we has boasted great cultural diversity since its founding in Grades 7-12 - St. Albert Street Names (Archival Resource) 32 pass around objects and old pictures, create a craft and learn 1861. The history of this unique Prairie community has Resource Services at the Museum about living in Alberta more than 150 years ago! been shaped by the coming together of the Métis, the First Nations and the Francophone settlers and missionaries. Join Natural History Archives & Artifacts Collections 32 us on Mission Hill, the founding site of St. Albert, and tour Kindergarten - Grade 1 - Bears 31 Information Files and Pamphlets 32 the Father Lacombe Chapel, the crypt, the grotto and the Grade 3 - Rocks and Minerals 31 Heritage Inventory 32 cemetery. Learn how St. Albert’s different cultures played a Library 32 Métis Genealogy 32 role in developing the Mission into the city it is today. Tours Discovery Room can be modified to meet your class’s curriculum needs (i.e. Please watch the website (www.museeheritage.com), Alberta history, Métis, First Nations, Francophone), and can launching Fall 2011, for Discovery Room activity updates. accommodate various classroom sizes and time constraints.

The Musée Héritage Museum is located in St. Albert Place. Designed by world-renowned Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal, the building’s sculptural symmetry mimics the curves of the Sturgeon River that runs behind it. The building has 26 Students completing finger weaving projects Students participating in the Fur Trade Game 27 no corners, only curves. Preschool Programs I Belong Peru and the Aboriginal Kindergarten - Working together People of Canada Winter Animals An introductory program designed for younger children. Grade 3 - Comparing Cultures This program introduces children to the Aboriginal Preschool Program (winter) - Introduction to a This is a program that compares the history and culture at community by using a talking stick, sharing stories, creating museum setting Indigenous Peru and Aboriginal Canada. There is a lot to a craft, and participating in a drumming circle. We begin What do animals do in the winter? Come to the museum learn in this fast paced program that includes stories, games, with introductions, story telling and learning about traditions and find out! This program is designed for three and four crafts and sharing our objects from Peru and Alberta. This as your students think about our communities and how we year olds and encourages creativity as the children move program assists us to recognize the many things that are belong in them. This program works best in a museum through centers filled with hands-on activities. different about our cultures but also discover the many setting. things that are the similar in our culture and histories. • There is the option of a bannock snack with this Spring Along the River • Complements the Masks and Peru workshop program; please let the registrar know if you would at the Studios. Preschool Program (spring) - Introduction to a like to include the snack with your program. museum setting

Join us for songs, stories, and games as we celebrate the The Tipi as Home return of spring along the Sturgeon River! Learn the names An Early Métis Community for baby animals and make age appropriate crafts as we Grade 4+ - Aboriginal life Grade 1 - Aboriginal Contribution in focus on matching and creativity. The Tipi is a home that moves around but maintains a strong • Aboriginal preschoolers will be exposed to some our Community foundation. We begin by building a tipi as we learn about Cree language Our program begins in a circle for introductions and a the people, their traditions and values, why the poles were sharing of the things we know about a community. Oral so important and the value associated with each tipi pole. NOTE: Children must be toilet trained before attending tradition, objects and pictures are introduced as students To conclude we gather as a community to share. Preschool programs Students complete a beading project hear about the people who lived in the local area and how • Complements the Tipi workshop at the Studios. they contributed to the community. Your students will work together and plan a small community of their own before working on an individual project they can take back t school to share with friends and family. • This program works best in a museum setting.

Aboriginal Programs The Inuit

The Musée Héritage Museum has Aboriginal Programmers Grade 2 - Communities in Canada on staff who guide and participate in the development and Inuit culture and tradition are explored as we share objects delivery of the Aboriginal Programs. All of these programs and stories about the people who live in northern parts of are taught in a traditional way and include elements of oral Canada. Students have the opportunity to learn words in history, the importance of the circle and an awareness of the Inuktitut, discover historic and current ways in which the world around us. Emphasis in these programs is on respect, people survive in a challenging environment, and also work cooperation and patience. together in groups to tell a story about the north using creativity and symbols. Wisdom of the Elders, “Humility is probably the most • Complements the Inuit Inspired Mask workshop at difficult virtue to realize.” the Studios. - Elder Thomas Yellowtail

Planning an early Métis Community Students interacting with artifacts during the Peru Program

TIPI POLE VALUES I cannot believe how fortunate I am to be able to • Obedience • Respect • Humility • Happiness • Love • Faith integrate my social studies curriculum with the • Kinship • Cleanliness • Ultimate Protection 28 • Sharing • Strength • Good Child Rearing programs offered at the Musée Héritage Museum 29 • Hope • Thankfulness First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) History and St. Albert Grades 5-12 - Aboriginal Canada, Alberta History, Collective Rights St. Albert and Tunisia: A Who are these people? What language do they speak? Comparative Approach How did they live in the past, and how do they live today? Grade 3 - Comparing Cultures Why should we learn about aboriginal peoples? What Let’s take a closer look at the fascinating country of Tunisia does their experience have to do with me? Our Aboriginal and see if we have anything in common. Students have programmers would like to share the local and regional the opportunity to share what they already know at the history with you and your students. We will tailor the Students interacting with artifacts at a Museum program beginning of the program and then we build on that program to meet your curriculum needs. knowledge as we work through a variety of activities in a smaller group setting. Activities include elements of the We encourage questions and discussion relevant to the Individualized Programs geography, history, architecture and the religion of both

Aboriginal Peoples of Canada, both in the past and in the countries. We conclude the program with an art project These original programs are created to meet individual present. Sharing stories, considering different perspectives where students each create a picture that will become part classroom needs based on meeting the curriculum and recognizing the contributions of the aboriginal of another larger mural. St. Albert’s first town council, Musée Heritage Museum, community throughout the history of North America will standards and expectations, specifically in the areas of St. Albert Historical Society fonds. give students the additional tools they need to be well aboriginal and historic content. informed citizens. This program will include a hands-on Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow Grade 6 - Local Government activity for the students. The history of any local or municipal government reflects the Historic St. Albert Tours Grades 4-8 - My Community, Stories, Histories community it serves. In St. Albert there is a unique story of and People of Alberta, People of Canada, Ways local government dating back before Canada was a country All age groups of Life Over Time or Alberta was a province. After a brief introduction your Join us in St. Albert for a walking tour around town to see Children don white cotton gloves and work in small groups students have the opportunity to elect a city council (mayor Collective Rights the sites and hear the marvelous stories of our local people to solve “mysteries” as they look at a variety of objects and councillors) before they break into smaller groups to Junior High / High School program and their history! There are many things to see including or pictures up close and decipher how these items were prepare a short presentation about a municipal issue (parks, This program focuses on identity, citizenship, quality of life, St. Albert Place, the Little White School, Mission Hill used. Intuitive thinking is a key element of this program development, animal control, taxes, garbage pick up, and how the political process of the Canadian Government (which includes the crypt, grotto and cemetery) the Michif and students are encouraged to guess and hypothesize. recycling, etc.) to present at a mock council meeting later in impacted the people of Canada both past and present. Institute, and the St. Albert Grain Elevator Park. We share Ultimately students share their ideas and gain new insight the program. Discussion regarding some of these municipal Using historic documents and examples from St. Albert and the stories of the Métis, the Grey Nuns, Oblate priests, by identifying the objects and their uses as well as a better issues ahead of time is helpful but not required. We will other western communities, we touch on immigration, early Francophone families, politicians as well as farmers understanding of the past, present and future. move up to the city council chambers (as availability permits) the British North America Act, the Riel Resistance and the and business owners. Our tours can be tailored to meet to conduct a mock council meeting with your students. St. Albert Mounted Rifles. your curriculum requirements and students’ abilities—just let us know what you would like to see and we will create Local Government a tour that matches your requirements.

Natural History We just loved this presentation. Bears It matches precisely what we Kindergarten – Grade 1 - Needs of Animals Rocks and Minerals The Bears program starts in a large group setting, and your Grade 3 learn in Chapter 4 of the Grade students have the opportunity to share what they know with We begin by thinking about Earth from the “inside out” as your the programmer. After a visit with Albert (a puppet), we students share what they know about the Earth’s core, mantle 9 Social Studies (textbook). split into smaller groups and explore the Discovery Room, and crust. Our collection of rocks, minerals, and petrified wood play a game and create a take-home craft. This program is is available for examination as we discuss how they are formed. The presenters were of intended not only to learn about bears, but to expose The students are divided into smaller groups and rotate through younger students to a museum and the object in it that stations where we make a volcano, learn how to classify rocks excellent quality. Passion could they can discover and explore. and find out more about minerals. be seen, heard and felt…

Students working in small groups during the Early Métis Community program

30 31 Exhibitions The Bison (The General Store of the Plains) Locations & Contact Information Mission Makers: Father Lacombe and Curriculum Links: Canada’s Dynamic Communities, Bishop Taché Stories and People of Alberta, Changing Ways of Life For all general inquiries, please call Registration at 780-459-1163 Is it buffalo or bison? Have your students become aware of the June – November 2011 history behind this question. Your class will have the opportunity to 150 years ago, two men stood at the top of what became Heritage Sites Office Little White School, 2 Madonna Drive look closely at bones, fur, projectile points and other items included Mission Hill in St. Albert. Then Bishop Taché was 38 and Father in the kit as they learn how and why the Aboriginal people depended Lacombe only 33. They had both already worked for many years on the buffalo for their livelihood. to establish Catholic missions in western Canada and in the Little White School 2 Madonna Drive, St. Albert process had become friends. This exhibit explores their ambitions, accomplishments and friendship. For further details, please visit Resource Services at the Museum Father Lacombe Chapel St. Vital Avenue (open May-Sept) our website: www.museeheritage.com.

Archives and Artifact Collections: The Musée Héritage Museum opened a new St. Albert History The Museum has a collection of objects related to St. Albert’s history, St. Albert Grain Elevator Park 4A Meadowview Drive (open May-Sept) Gallery in 2011. Explore this exhibit and discover St. Albert’s story many of which are not on display, but are digitally photographed. that began over 5,000 years ago with the first people that came Additionally, the museum acquires archives pertaining to St. Albert’s to this valley. history including personal papers, municipal records, manuscripts, organizational records and photographs which are in the process Musée Héritage Museum St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street of being digitized. Both the artifact collection and the archives are available for viewing by researchers and the general public on-site. Musée Héritage Outreach Takes place at schools Education Kits The museum is working to make the collection available digitally.

Call and reserve the kit you are interested in and we can be sure it is available when you need it in your classroom. Archive Resources - St. Albert Street Names Art Gallery of St. Albert 19 Perron Street, St. Albert Contact the Musée Héritage Museum Program Coordinator at 459-1528, or [email protected] Grades 6 – 12 Many of St. Albert’s street names have been named after people Art Explorers 19 Perron Street, St. Albert who were and are significant to the development of St. Albert. This

All in a Day’s Work program allows students to research the stories behind St. Albert’s Curriculum links: A Community in the Past, Alberta street names using our reference library and archives. Students Studios St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street History, Ways of life in Canada will be given an introduction to archives and have the opportunity to conduct archival research, giving them experience with research There are chores that always need to be done but the way we Youth Gallery Arden Theatre lobby, 5 St. Anne Street do them and the tools we use have changed over time. Explore outside of Internet search engines. The program also includes a tour the artifacts in this kit and find out how the pioneers did their of the Musée Héritage Museum archives and artifact storage room. chores before electricity existed! This kit includes objects, books, Outreach and Early Arts Takes place at schools old-fashioned games and information regarding the social roles of boys and girls who lived in the pioneer days. Information Files:

These files contain newspaper clippings, pamphlets, brochures, and Arts and Heritage Financial Services, #200, 20 Perron Street, St. Albert The Métis: Lifestyle and the Voyageur other materials relating to past and present individuals, organizations, and institutions from St. Albert and area. 780-459-1194 Curriculum Links: Canada’s Dynamic Communities, Library: Stories and People of Alberta, Changing Ways of Life The Musée Héritage Museum boasts an in-house library with a range Métis people played important roles in the opening up and of publications available for viewing in the museum. Subjects include development of Western Canada. As voyageurs, guides, St. Albert and Alberta History, Natural History, Métis and First Nations interpreters, freemen, farmers and fur trade employees moved Culture, and Museum Studies. west they helped establish and settle many communities. This kit contains objects and resource materials that can be used to Heritage Inventory: introduce a new unit, provide an overview or be used as a resource In 2010, an updated inventory of St. Albert’s heritage buildings when using a lesson plan to share the stories about what life was was conducted. The inventory includes a Places of Interest List and like back then. evaluations on many of the significant heritage buildings in the community. The inventory is available to the public at the museum. Métis Genealogy: This database contains a listing of over 70,000 individuals is available through the public access computer.

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