Two NYC workers during a snowstorm

Image credit: Mr Ian

We have a hybrid topic this week as we continue to show winter art—drawings, paintings, sketches, photos, and other aesthetic displays highlighting Winter.

Part Two is an Introduction to News Literacy—we will define it, read some educational literature on it, and browse the 2023 Library of Congress Literacy Awards (United States) co-winner, the News Literacy Project.

Please share your photos, sketches, line drawings, and paintings with us! I look forward to exploring more Winter Art submissions with the group. I will share some winter photos I have taken over recent years that highlight some exceptional snowscapes—during and after a large snow storm.

We will practice online oral reading skills as we enter the introduction to News Literacy.

I look forward to seeing everyone at 22:00 on January 10 at our customary Google Meet link.

Ian Gardiner

AI Drawing with Prompts, Pictures, Stories, Winter, Writing, Dreaming Big for 2026, Winter Art, Christmas Art, Painting, Drawing

Lanifah Quynh Dao and Kathryn Nguyen with ice skates on. Toronto, Canada December 21, 2025.

Image credit: Kathryn Nguyen

We are now in our 2025-2026 Winter Session and will celebrate the month of December with Winter Art—our theme for December 2025 centers around your appreciation of Winter Art.

Our final week of the Winter Art session is dedicated to Winter Art itself. If you want to share a photograph of how your neighborhood looks at this time of year, that will be great!

You may also write or draw about what dreaming big for 2026 means to you! For example, you might dream big about winning a competition, about writing an epic tale or composing a hit song; or about you painting or drawing a masterpiece!

We will look at several examples of winter art that are online, and I will be looking at depictions of winter in nature around where I live, but I also expect students to share their own paintings or drawings of Winter Art with the class.

If Christmas Art appeals to you, then please share it with the class!

You can look at my small Christmas Art and Winter Art Photo album here .

I am NOT an artist, but I will use AI to help me turn one of my photos from my recent trip to Canada into a Winter Art scene.

That’s it! We are focused on Art for all of December, 2025.

If you want me to put your creation on the screen for everyone to see (because I use a PC and not a smaller phone screen), then email your work to my secondary email address: igee2016@gmail.com

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Jan 10 January 10: Winter Art and Introduction to News Literacy

Dec 27 December 6-27, 2025: Winter Art, Christmas Art. Dreaming Big for 2026!

We will look at several examples of winter art that are online, and I will be looking at depictions of winter in nature around where I live, but I also expect students to share their own paintings or drawings of Winter Art with the class.