Our Classroom Project
Our Project has started and I am quite excited about it. I am going to work with St.Patrick’s Boys School and especially with 2nd and 3rd class, 23 boys altogether.
Caitriona Mc Manus is the boy’s teacher and enjoys teaching art herself. Both of us are looking forward to work together, to share ideas and experience with other teachers, artists and craft workers and the students of course.
We hope that the idea of “artist in residence” will be beneficial for the school, teachers and students and also to me for the development of further projects.
We have not given the project a tittle yet to leave room for development and input from the children but the frame work is set.
Within the visual arts curriculum we are going to develop a fabric made bear sculpture that is showing the effect that global warming has on polar bears. It will be a fully jointed bear standing on an ice floe.
Our aim is to use a lot of recycled materials, for instant bits and pieces of old clothing the boys bring in from home.
We are going to work mainly with fabric and fibre but construction, drawing and clay sculpture will be part of our project. We aim to learn also about related subjects like environment, history, geography, poetry and creative writing.
Part of the documentation process will be that the boys are going to take photographs, video snaps and also develop their own blog.
Today we were watching a film about the 8 different bear species and started to learn about habitat, location, diet & features of the bears as well as their relation ship with people.
To help to understand size and weight and how it relates in constructing a sculpture I brought in Bruno our life size brown bear.
Then every boy made a bear sculpture in clay.
