Thursday, March 6, 2014

116- The students are exploring flags and preparing a display for Multicultural week. The country they chose to study is Canada. They came to the studio today to create a door-sized Canadian flag.  One student did the drawing for the Maple leaf.  We critiqued it and he fixed his mistakes, creating a pretty-close-to-perfect copy on the second try.

I have maple leaf garland hanging around the atelier door and the students noticed it.  I offered it to them for Multicultural week and they were really happy about borrowing it. We started talking about maple trees and maple sap.  Jesus knew how maple syrup comes from the trees and he explained it to his friends.

At this point in the day, we went to the Burchfield-Penney with the first graders.  Here is a piece of dialogue:

J- Look at what I drew.
Student Teacher- What is it?
J- It's the lines for the water in that piece right there.
ST- Which piece?
J- The one with the water.
ST- This one?
J- No, the one with the melted water.
ST- Do you like this?
J- Yes, I like this.
ST- What do you like about this?
J- I like being here. It's open and I like seeing everything, but not touching. I like the paintings.  I really like that we came here.

We returned in time for our two kindergarten classes at the end of the day.

102- We printed photos of the students' houses so they could draw the correct amount and include the correct placement of windows and doors.  The students finished any painting that needed to be completed on the houses and we glued the pieces of houses together to complete the house.  Some of the students completed the final step of writing their house number on the houses.

104- The student critiqued and curated the hibernating animal observational drawings and added them to their bear caves. They'll be playing with the stuffed toy animals and letting their animals hibernate in the cave.