This week, our lesson was on printmaking. It was a really fun class and I feel like the students really enjoyed themselves. There were many opportunities for students to explore the process of printmaking through demonstrations, PowerPoint slides and discussion, and playing in the centers. The class was also very crowded with extra visitors including a film crew and several art education students observing and lending a hand. Although it was crowded and a little distracting, we still managed to stay focused on the lesson.
The big activity lesson for the day was led by Lacey. She did a great job reeling in the students into discussion by asking them very fun questions like “what ‘s a machine?” and “how does a machine dance?” Once student, Daniel, demonstrated to the class how a machine dances by actually doing the robot dance. Lacey also did a good job with her demonstration of printmaking by using the counting method to get students involved in the demo. And at the end of the lesson, she encouraged students to do a train dance which turned out absolutely great. We had a few technical problems but we had back up plans (such as the radio for our end of the day dance party).
Both Lacey and I spent a lot more time communicating with the students during center play. I got a chance to talk to Daniel and Jackson while they were drawing their dancing machine in the drawing center. Jackson was making a robot that had similar traits to Santa Claus and Daniel was making a robot that had a pogo stick and a map of North America.
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