Wednesday, January 22, 2014

I spent the morning in skype sessions with our mentors, the Cadwells of Cadwell Collaborative, and teachers, discussing and exploring the ideas they had for their block areas.

118- The "Navy Seal" boys came in and continued to color their drawings.  I think we may have enough to photograph them and create the photo book now.

101 and 103 continued to work on the springtime mural.  Some things I noticed:

Two girls in 101 were coloring and telling a story at the same time.  One girl was drawing a heart while the other was drawing clouds and a rainbow.  "Give the heart feet," the second girl said, "that way it can climb up on the clouds!"  This group is doing a pretty good job of coloring things realistic colors and attempting to color in the lines.

103 had a few students who struggled with the idea of coloring within the lines.  One boy kept making scribbles in a circle.  I showed him and explained to him what we were doing, but he insisted on this scribbling motion.  The other kids were becoming upset that he was "ruining" their artwork, but then one girl suggested that his scribble could be a spider web. She drew a big black spider on the web and saved the day.

The left side shows the rainbow and "heart with feet"
and the right side shows the scribble saved by
the addition of a giant black spider!