Comic Jam! Harmonica Dance!

More photos from last week to come.

Making videos with Joe, picture book, and T.B. bike excursion

Last week, we visited OZ Studio again and made videos with Joe on a special device he invented, consisting of an iPhone and lots more. Most of us enjoyed it a whole lot!

Playing with glasses taken from old camera lenses! 

Also, after making zines individually or as a pair, we're now onto making one large picture book all together!

On Friday, we did some cycling-specific stretches and biked all around Trinity Bellwoods, visiting all corners of the park through every trail.

Kung Fu: In the style of 詠春 (Wing Chun)

Guest teacher Bryan came to show and teach us Kung Fu on Friday! He brought special headbands that gave us extra power, all of us were able to break special purple Kung Fu paper with our newly learned punches and kicks!

Cherry Blossom Festival A.K.A. 桜まつり (Sakura Matsuri)

Last week, we paid a visit to High Park and had a picnic under a cherry blossom tree in full bloom. Angel told us about how snacking, picnicking with your friends and families during the cheery blossom season, which often lasts for only one week, is a very important tradition in East Asia and particularly in Japan.

We had lemonade instead of tea, also, dried mangoes, rice crackers and a bunch of dips!

Running up and down the hill

Typical!

Trying to catch falling cherry petals... to eat!

Record-breaking 30 seconds headstand!!!

Preparing surprises for our moms

Some of us made cards... 

some of us made cookies...

most of us did both!

We finally went to Joe's studio/gallery space

Joe is a good friend of Maylee's who runs a studio/gallery space on Ossington called Oz Studio. We'll sure be checking out more exhibits that are part of the CONTACT photography festival and learning to take photos ourselves! 

Discussing which artwork is the most scary. 

Storytime with Maylee, our favourite! 

Cycling little giants

We have been learning about bikes in the past few weeks. We've been talking about the importance and benefits of bicycles in a city like Toronto, we've talked about what bicycle advocates do to make biking safer and more fun in the city, we've also been learning about traffic laws and signalings that are important to cyclists. This month, we'll continue on this theme; we will spend a day learning about bike parts, another day doing bike maintenance, and maybe, just maybe, we will get to help put a bike together from scratch for one of our teachers!

Now that the weather is nice,
we're going to use the bicycle to get to places whenever we can.

Bike gang!

Suped up bikes!

Zines and chapter books

We've been working hard on making some books lately:

Some of us chose to work alone...

... others learned the beauty of collaboration.

Sharing the fruits of our hard work!

While we wait for the girls...

... sometimes we learn math through preparing snack;

sometimes we practice cutting;

and, sometime we play a game and have snack in advance out in the 'hood!