Domestic and manual art club

ERASMUS+ KA2 THINK AND CREATE YOUR OWN HOBBIES 2020-2021 SECOND TERM MANUAL AND DOMESTIC ARTS CLUB NTRA. SRA. DE LA VICTORIA - SPAIN –

ERASMUS+ KA2 THINK AND CREATE YOUR OWN HOBBIES 2020-2021 FIRST TERM MANUAL AND DOMESTIC ART CLUB NTRA. SRA. DE LA VICTORIA - SPAIN -

Hello Friends!

Here I come back to inform you that during this second term our students have worked on wonderful Art projects, promoting their creativity and decication into details with different techniques, such as tracing, copying, drawing, colouring… using varied Art styles, like realism or abstract art, comics, etcétera. What is more, they are developing many artistic skills by using a big range of materials: pencils, crayons, markers, pastels, tempera, card, pictures…These techniques have been linked with other contents we had planned for all the subjects and also the school projects.

As you know, we are changing our school, creating new areas and making it more colourful and fun. Here you can see how sixth graders are changing our corridors, painting the bricks with different colours. This is an activity which promotes cooperation too.

In Prehistory fifth graders learned that language did not exist so their traditions and culture have been transmitted by pictures, statues and structures made by these old humans.

After learning about Paleolithic, Neolithic and Metal Ages, students in 5th grade had to reproduce some artistic prehistorical works using their fingers and hands. The objective was to discriminate the main type of representations owned to each period. For Paleolithic, they had to reproduce a rocky Venus using charcoal. For Neolithic they had to draw Altamira´s Bison using mustard, Ketchupt, chocolate, etc. Finally, in Metal Ages, students had to build a menhir or dolmen.

During this term, fourth graders were working on the Sgraffito technique. This is a very simple technique that we can carry out even Young learners. The Sgraffito technique consists of taking a blank sheet and painting it in different colours until the entire sheet is filled. Then, it is painted over with a black wax and with the help of a toothpich the wax is scraped, making the drawing that we like the most.

Talking about third graders, in the Arts and Crafts subject, we were working on the simmetry. Moreover, after working with Primary Colours during first term, this second term was time to work on Secondary Colours.

Also, both groups of this level prepared their fancy dresses for Carnival in Arts and Crafts subject. The topic for the Carnival was The Science, and the school prepared a special day in which teachers became scientists and students had to participate in different workshops in which the activities were related to Science. Each tutor had chosen to be a scientis and their pupils had to dress up as the invention or discovery they had got.

Thus, since third graders A tutor was Albert Einsten, the group had to prepare a lightbulb as fancy dress and B group had to prepare a Wi-Fi fancy dress as the tutor had chosen to be Hedy Lamarr.

In this line, and part of the Erasmus Project too, they did clothing painting as you can see.

Moreover, and as part of the Social Science subject, third grade students prepared their own Solar System. One of the students prefered to créate the Milky Way, and that was her masterpiece. We made a huge display with all their works.

Focusing now on Second Grade, they created living things (animals) art works by the tracing technique applied on our classroom Windows. Also, they used pastels to colour them.

Second graders also decorated shamrocks for St. Patrick’s Day. We used makers and crayons to combine a beaufitul colouring technique.

Let us continue now with First Graders. They also linked their Erasmus+ KA2 project contribution to their Natural Science Subject. While learning about living things-animals this second term, they prepared fantastic presentations about a chosen animal that later they shew to their

classmates and also left in a display area in the school hall so that the rest of students could learn too about these animals.

Infants also did their part for the Erasmus Project. Each group worked on different activities linked with their level projects and daily work in the classroom.

Here we can admire the final Arts and Crafts Project they individually created in Infants five years after working for a long period about the Space.

These two groups of five years old also started a new Project in which they are going to learn about Egypt. They started decoding a message and later, they had to look for objects related to the Egyptian culture.

In Infants 4 years level students worked the Monkey Puzzle story in the English subject with different activities, such as number practice by feeding the monkey. They later prepared their own monkey

This level also worked on a Project about Dinosaurs. They learned all about their lives, they learned the names of different dinosaurs and also about the natural aspects about that era. Some of the artistic designs are the following:

Our Mixed group of four and three year-old students follow a double syllabus design,worked with The Smartest Giant in Town book in the English subject. They love doing Arts and Crafts projects and they squeeze the story so much. They painted the giant and the giraffe in huge size, practising the colours they had learned; they painted a their pairs of socks that did not match, and also, they designed their ties. Can you see how elegant they look?

Athenea, the teacher of this group, also prepared the little ones of this group an uncommon whiteboard on the top of a cupboard. They really enjoy drawing on this surface! These are some of their drawings while learning about their physical appearance “How do I look?”.

Three years old levels have worked on a Project about the Circus, and so, they have done many arts and crafts activities related to this topic, such as the following:

In this line, the Mixed group have decorated the ground floor corridor with this theme. Students also have a photocall in which they took many pictures as parto f the Project. Moreover, in this Project teachers, students and families took part, being this a formo f cooperation among the Educative Community.

Three years levels also learned in English the colours, working later on worksheets in which they had to use those colours.

In the same subject, English, they have learned numbers up to number 5, and they were interiorisating them by doing some arts and crafts too. For this, they used different techniques in which they had to “colour” the numbers.

All levels of Infants worked on the Easter festivity before our break, and they designed their Easter Eggs.

Within the school, we have some special artists, such as Valeria, a third grade student who painted this Starry Night on her own. She gave it as a present to her tutor. Also, she painted another picture related to numbers, which was a present for her cotutor, her Maths teacher.

We also celebrated International Women’s day on the 8th of March in the school, preparing different activities and visits in which students refuted job gender stereotypes. The town police collaborated with the activities, and two female police officers did some speeches at all educational levels. The students could see the participation of women in the workplace.

In addition, the 6th graders had a Red Cross workshop in which they worked on the stereotypes of society and we were marked by them.

The school prepared a video with some volunteers (men and women) in different work environments, in which they spoke about their experiences they carry out.

To sum up, the classes carried out activities and awareness workshops dealing with International Women’s day from an inclusive point of view.

And this is some of the results we got ….teachers did it not so bad, didn’t we?

The last week befour our Easter Break we celebrate the Cultural Week, and as the topic for carnaval was The Science, it was for the cultural week too. We organised different workshops in wich students put into practice varied experiments and learned about people who has a place in Science. Teachers dressed up as these important people in order to make the situations more real.

One of the important people they learned about was Jane Goodall, the ethologist who studied the chimpanzees for more tan 60 years. After the explanation of Jane Goodall’s life using Power points and videos in Spanish and English, our Jane asked students had to draw a monkey, that she knew it is not an ape and so the students after learning about them, but they enjoyed the activity so much.

WE CHALLENGE YOU TO DO THE SAME

Also, during the Cultural Week, all levels went to the playground in which they coloured a mural that we could not finish the last year and that one of our language assistants, Ben Westley Clarke painted.

And this is the final result. We send a picture to Ben and he was very happy we could finish his masterpiece. He wanted to continue working with us in the school, but the Administration just offered him to work with a different school in the Community of Madrid. Anyways, we can continue admiring his works as he is an artist.

I hope you liked all we worked during this second long term. We had some difficult days in which our village was confined because of Covid, but we continued coming to school. Our students enjoyed all the activities the teachers prepared and I hope you do too.

See you son Friends Victorita