I started another class on choice last week. This class has got to be one of my favorite classes- it's a second grade class and at the beginning of the year, I was a little scared they would be a little crazy- but their teacher is amazing, and the kids are awesome. They are very creative and supportive and just wow.
Anyway-
They've had drawing and painting open for two weeks now. The first week, I explained what they would be working on, and they basically got to it. I had given them sketchbooks a week or two ago, and they were ready. When I had them for week two, yesterday, I did a mini lesson on Kwanzaa and Kente cloth. Their teacher had told me that she looks at holidays around the world during the month of December, and I pulled some ideas, ran them by her and we actually coordinated really well. For our mini lesson, we looked at pictures of Kente cloth, talked about Kwanzaa and the colors. I have a little sample of Kente cloth that I made in one of my weaving classes in undergrad that I shared with them. We made paper warps- I had one student who started weaving on his own during week one, so he was my helper with the demo and helping other kids who had a hard time with the "over, under" thing during studio time.
We will also be looking at advent calendars for the UK, poinsettas for Mexico and gingerbread people/chains for Germany
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