We hope that the students had as much fun this week as we did! This week, we focused on learning centers. In learning centers, the students are able to choose what they want to work on, and when they want to move to the next center. We had three centers that the students were able to work at.
At the first center, we focused on artists Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. Students were able to splatter paint as Pollock did with his work with tubes of paint, and used printing techniques (only with flyswatters!) as Warhol did with some of his work.
At the second center, students worked with toilet paper/paper towel rolls in order to create a collaborative sculpture to make a 'home' for a bug. We showed images of different recycled sculptures that other artists have used in the past. Students were instructed to cut the rolls and add something to make it their own. They had sequence, buttons, decorated paper, pipe cleaners and colored duct tape to experiment with. Teachers were able to help students with the hot glue gun to glue all the students' pieces together to make one form.
At the third learning center, we inspired the students with work done by artist Pablo Picasso. We talked about how Picasso made art that didn't always necessarily look like a real image; rather, his images were fragmented and looked distorted. Therefore, in this center, students were able to cut up images of bugs in order to make a new monster bug. We were really excited about the outcomes of all the students work in this center. They are all very talented! Students also created stories about their bugs and a few presented at the end of class.
Enjoy the photos this week!
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