Thursday, February 13, 2014

116- We brought group one in to finish their asymmetric paper sculptures.  We critiqued Nancy Rubins' sculpture at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

I recorded this dialogue about the Nancy Rubins' piece:
 Yair- I've seen that!

Jornand- Me, too!

Teacher- What is this?

Jornand- it's boats!

Teacher- It is boats! It's canoes. Do you think we could make something like this?

Jornand- No. We'd need ropes.

Nataniel- And these things.

Jornand- These are wires. And a truck to move the boats.

Teacher- I wonder if we could make a sculpture that is like the Nancy Rubins sculpture, but uses our paper rolls instead.

They all agree that we can definitely do that.

 They begin to build and they really get into it.  Everyone seems pretty excited as the sculptures take on forms of their own.

Yair makes what Isaac calls a three-legged giraffe.

Isaac- Mine is balanced!

Gloriana has created a sculpture that looks like a horse.

Luis says that her sculpture looks like a big gun, but others disagree.

Daniel- it looks like wood. Or a ball machine. The ball is in here and comes out here.

Issac- mine looks like an airplane. Yours looks like an animal.

Jornand- A zebra.

Glorian-  I think mine looks like a dog.

Jornand- It's not balancing no more.

Issac- Because you took it apart.

Daniel- it's not balancing because it had nothing standing down.

Gloriana finishes hers and offers to help Justyn, who was absent on the first day and slightly behind the others.

Issac- Tomorrow, we get candy.

Jornand, sings- Candy, Candy, Balancing, Balancing

Daniel takes the envelope we were using to store the pieces and decides to add that to his sculpture.

Issac- Luis' sculpture looks like a spider that was putting the legs down.

He makes a gesture with his hands like spider legs.

118- We had another group of students come in to do the "What is Balance?" provocation. They were really silly and funny today. 

"It's a sad Cyclops!"

We can balance our mustaches under our noses!

G created this and said, "It's showing balance because the side that's up
has nothing on it and the side that's down has two beads."

A's work

108- I brought the students in who are working on the habitats.

Our beautiful watercolors in progress.

112- The group came in and worked on designing bridges with wood. 

101- The students needed practice with sorting, so we sorted beautiful stuff.  I asked them to sort it and they chose to sort by color.  They will now use one color per letter and write their names with the pieces.

104- The other half of the class worked with my student teacher on drawing animals that hibernate.  These will be used to decorate the bear cave they made, like cave art.