Placement: Brook Thompson
Location: Lake Country School
Grade(s)/ Year(s): 1-3
Tuesday, Feb 18 (1.5 hours)
On Tuesday, I met with Brook to discuss my lesson plan. For each placement, we have to develop a lesson plan to teach to the class. For my lesson, I’m going to have the students create their own mini animations that illustrate growth. Spring is the season of growth, so I think that it would be a good opportunity for them to mimic this aspect through their own booklet of drawings. Students can show the process of growth by taking a shape and gradually increasing the size as if it’s blooming. If students want more of an advance or literal interpretation of growth, they will have the option to animate the life cycle of either a flower or tree. From a seed in the ground to blooming petals, it will be a fun challenge for them to not only improve their drawing skills, but their science knowledge as well. I’m already looking forward to seeing how students will interpret this project. Whether the students choose to grow shapes or flowers, this will be a great opportunity for them to get excited for Spring and their upcoming break.
Wednesday, Feb 19 (3 hours)
For this class, students learned about how art can express ideas, feelings, and meanings to the viewer. To explore this aspect even further, the students in each of their table groups were assigned to write down possible feelings, ideas, and meanings that can be conveyed through art. For the most part, the class had fun trying to come to with their own solutions for each prompt. After writing down their own solutions, the students shared their ideas to the class and wrote them down on three giant sheets of paper, with each paper representing one of the prompts. Overall, while some of them did struggle with trying to answer the prompts, I thought that this activity was a great way for students to think more deeply about artwork. Not only should they carefully analyze and interpret professional art pieces, but students should also keep these prompts in mind when creating artwork of their own.
