7th grade Maker Space and Art Minor collaborated on the Art Cart. Check back in the fall to see our progress.
Class of 2015 Art Minors explored their creativity by planning a mural as a group. Together as a class they decided to focus on different parts of the mural that would describe our school: Field Trips, Minors & Electives, Education, and Positive Quotes. The following photos document the time spent planning and painting the mural as well as our field trip to Philly. #don'tmesswithmyvacationI planned my first field trip and it was a blast. I think the best thing about this trip was that I got to know my kids and my kids got to know me. We started the day by boarding the bus at 7:00 and arrived in Philly around 9:30. On the bus I told them that they needed to find us a breakfast spot, perferably a diner. They ended up finding Reading Terminal Market, which ended up being such a great start to our morning. Several kids joined Ms. Burt and I at the diner while others stayed together in groups and found their breakfast. Philly Cheesesteaks at 9AM... sure why not. Once we finished breakfast we met up with Mural Arts Program. It was a wonderful tour filled with amazing visual stories of the history of the city. I will say it was a lot of walking. We ended up booking two tours that day and didn't make it to the second, Magic Gardens. We did however get to view the amazing art from the outside. This was actually a perfect ending to our trip because it left my students wanting to see what was inside. Best way to end a less... wanting more.
Before I begin to tell you about this wonderful project I need to thank Mr. Consroe, the Social Studies teacher and Ms. Smith, the Math teacher who have been such asset to this unit. The 6th grade studied Egypt in Social Studies so Mr. Consroe and I decided to create a LARGE Arts Integration lesson on Pyramids. At the beginning of the unit I asked Ms. Smith to teach us about equilateral triangles ( I am no math genius). The students created triangles and then used the templates to trace onto cardboard. One pyramid was created out of 32 triangles. Lots and lots of cutting... Next year Parent Volunteers are welcome to join in the fun. Then the students started to tape the triangles making pyramids to create the larger pyramid. After all the taping was done it was time to paper mache and then work on our designs. My 6th grade minors worked really hard. So excited to have these in the Showcase!!! It has been a long journey and finally they are complete. My 7th graders were so determined to finish these letters. This assignment began as an idea to create graffiti and turned into a 3D project with great success. Each team thought of a word and then each student created a letter out of cardboard. When all letters were complete they were paper-mached and painted. I am so proud of my 7th graders. |
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