We began our morning in the high
school working with students once again on their studio art pieces, giving them
suggestions and talking them through their projects. Some of the students were
beginning to throw on the wheel, which I was pretty excited about considering I
am in ceramics class right now. I felt like I didn’t get very good instruction
on throwing when I was in high school, so it felt good to show some of these
students some ways to throw on the wheel.
After the high school class we went
over to the Public Library where Mrs. L. and her coworkers had
set up a show exemplifying work from the elementary, middle, and high school. She
was able to involve the community with the art program and show a wide variety
of projects and students’ works.
Next we went to the middle school
where we helped fifth graders finish work on and finish up their symmetrical
fall cut out pieces, using six layers of folded, cut, snowflake inspired,
pieces of different size paper together.
Sixth graders were working on drawing their shoes; seventh graders were
working beginning to learn about Frank Stella. The students chose an instrument
to draw that day to use as a stencil to cut out later.
Finally we taught our eighth grade
class the final day of our lesson. This day was very chaotic since we were
trying to fit a ton into it making our three-day lesson a success. It began
with Teri doing a demo of how to print their fish or turtles. The students
learned how to roll out the ink and put the correct amount of ink on their
first test sheet. Next we got the
students together again and Teri gave a demo the next step: cutting their
stamps in two and then rolling out five prints on a piece of cloth,
collaborating with their table mates. The students worked really hard on these,
and although they were in a hurry they really worked well together. At the end
of class we gave them reflection sheets to answer a couple questions about how
they thought the project went.
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