Carey School enjoyed a very successful experience with this project. Listen to the students feedback in the voice thread above.
This is a video of the students as they worked on their project.
Our Arts Powered Schools Residency at Carey School was a
great success. We were fortunate to have
Amy Nack from Wingtip press back again this year. This time we chose to focus on our 4th
grade students. The 4th grade
classroom teacher, Jan Morey, allowed us to take her students for some extra
time so we could complete our project.
The students came for a total of 5 hours spread over two
days to the art room. We continued
working on our project after the initial printing. We spent one 50 min. class period discussing
the history of the structures. The
students were very interested and engaged in this discussion because of the
connection they felt to the building they had created. The students were surprised to learn that one
of the homes a friend in another grade lives in had once been a hospital, and
that their bus driver was born there.
These kinds of connections spurred their curiosity about the place we
live. Another interesting topic that was
discussed was the many relationships between families that exist in our small
town, and the numbers of students that have no family relations in the
town. It was a “light bulb” moment for
those few students who thought they were the only kids in the class not related
to someone in the town, to realize they weren’t alone.
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