3rd grade project with Keith Haring went well! It was much better to see the kids working together. I think it helped to have larger paper for them to work with. One group asked if they could do one drawing together and make it take up the entire space with a saw as the head. I told them they could and was really glad to see them brainstorming together. They worked together to create one piece, each person created their own part of the whole. The table that agreed to make UFO's got upset with each other for having one person go over the other's motion lines by adding more. I tried explaining to the boy who was upset that that is what its like to work collaboratively, that ideas get bounced off one another, that you see something someone does and you get inspired and it goes back and forth like that. They said they wanted to work on it for another day at the end of class so that was good to see that the ideas built in the project took off. It was good to see they enjoyed it and got the concept behind it.
K finished up their lesson. The colored pencils kept breaking so I spent a majority of the period sharpening them. Some people had them break like five times. I tried to tell them to go softly with them but it didn't seem to change the outcome. I had the kids use colored pencil to color in their background once they outlined their drawings with markers. I took a group picture of the kids at the end of the class with them holding up their final pieces and thanked them for having me in their class and said goodbye to them.
Mary Lynn does a Judy Chicago dinner party event at the school where the kids create plates that represent a woman in history they've researched by creating symbols that represent them. It's an event that happens in a few weeks. I see that she does a lot of things that are outside of the school day that go above and beyond. The kids seem to really appreciate that. If they don't I think down the line they will.
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