Saturday’s lesson was based off the lesson that we did last week. Students had the opportunity to create their villains out of modeling clay. There was a question whether students will grasp the concept of creating 2D drawing that they made last week and turn it into a 3D object. Although some students had trouble with connecting the pieces of clay together, I believe that the students got the concept very well, and the villains turned out better than expected. This coming Saturday, the students will be painting their clay villains.
This past Saturday we decided not to build the fort. I think this was beneficial to the class because it was not a distraction like last class. The students spent a large amount of time working on their clay villains and did not give up on them to play just to play in the fort. At the end of class, some students asked for more clay to play with. We had a table in the back of the room were the fort was last week which held the logo shirts, and some of the girls took their clay and went underneath to play with the clay. Some of the boys sat inside the podium in the front of the room. I think this worked out well because they weren’t yelling and fighting like last time.
I think the best thing that happened in our class last Saturday was a student who made two new friends. This little girl the past weeks was very quiet, sat in her seat, only drew a few things in her sketchbook, didn’t want to decorate her alter ego, and would just observe the class. She did not have anyone that she would group together with at the end of class to play and talk. This past Saturday, close to the end of class, she was talking to the two girls sitting next to her as well as drawing on the table together. Chelsea and I were so happy that she was finally getting comfortable with the students within the class. We will be definitely sitting them together next week.
Sounds like the day went well, and students were able to really engage with the medium and the challenge of creating villians in three dimensions. Can't wait to see what the children did with this. What kind of clay did you use?
ReplyDeleteCould it be that the naturally-occurring private spaces in the classroom simply work better as spaces to be along (or alone together) than ones that teachers create?