ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: City/Village Collages The South Egremont School is thinking about what makes a city, or in our neighborhood, a village, work. Children are reading books about urban neighborhoods and thinking about all the interconnecting jobs that help a community to function. The books we are reading are helping children notice the details of the world around them—features like farms, fields, houses, mailboxes, traffic lights, garbage collection, important village buildings— and the people who do jobs that make our town work. This week we looked closely at illustrations of towns and cities in our books created with collage and learned about some amazing collage artists like Roamer Bearden, Ekua Holmes and Mark Bradford. Children began working on their own collaged cityscapes. They tore, cut, arranged, organized and adhered interesting shapes and textures to create amazing cities and neighborhoods at night. As a result of instruction, students will be able to: • demonstrate initiative, self -direction, and independence. • create representations of experiences or stories and explain them to others. • with guidance and support, use a combination of drawing, building with blocks or other materials, or dictating to construct maps and other representations of familiar places. Observations: Ms. Didi and I noticed how incredibly focused and engaged the entire class was as they "shopped" for materials, tried things out and built multi-layered images of homes and neighborhoods where many people lived. It was interesting to hear ideas and stories shared as they worked - about restaurants, traffic lights, playgrounds, schools and post offices! "We can put some stars in later, because this is the city at night!" "I'm going to make a person walking." "Mine has a horse because a horse can pull a carriage there." MA Standards: APL1., APL4., SL.PK.5 , PK.T2.3 EDUCATING OUR EAGLES 12
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