Week 3: Narrative Drawings

This week the kids finished up on their miniature collage boxes by making miniature sculptures to place inside them based on the theme that they chose. They also finished up on the small detail work of the boxes themselves and if they were done with that, they were given the opportunity to create an "environment" inside their boxes to enhance their sculptures. One of the kid's themes was "Space" and she had made a telescope for her box and then decorated the "roof" of the inside of the box to look like a night sky. This week they also shocked me with how tiny their sculptures actually were. They really seemed to get into seeing how small the sculptures could be. This lesson ended up taking a bit more time than I had thought it would because it ended up spanning three lessons but the kids really wanted to work on the boxes and I think that they turned out great! They really responded well to the artists that were shown and the presentations this week too. I was relieved that I had no technical difficulties this week compared to last week with sound quality, PowerPoints, and videos. Everything seemed to work pretty well and they also enjoyed the video clip that was shown during snack.
Since some were behind on their projects of the boxes I gave the kids the option before snack time to either stay and finish up on them or move on to the narrative drawings that were planned next. This seemed to work out well and alleviated the kids feeling rushed to finish but still gave the others a chance to move on to something else. After I gave my presentation for the narrative drawings the kids split up into two groups. The project was that the kids had to imagine themselves as either one inch tall or as big as a building and then think about the things that they would see around them and how they would interact with those things. I based my examples that I showed them off of the poem I used for the presentation---"One Inch Tall" by Shel Silverstein.The kids really seemed to have fun coming up with what they would look like and how their environment might look and they came up with some really imaginative stuff. I think this project was a great compliment to Jill's size stacker drawings that we did in the first week also.

I think that overall this week went really well. We also managed to get some great documentation and video footage of the class also. The kids really seemed to have alot of fun and I didn't wind up having any technical difficulties like I did last week so as a whole, I think it went great!