This year is just flying by – we are nearly half way through November and our second Unit of Inquiry is unfortunately going to go over time – but only by two days and I will still finish all three by Christmas. The main reason being report cards and parent teacher interviews.
We are finishing our geometry mathematics unit too which I taught mainly through art. This was really effective and the kids really loved it. I am going to write up a reflection and documentation on the lessons and put together a board. We have one very long bulletin board in the elementary hallway that is ours – it still has work from our first unit on it so I will have to share this work on it soon… Its just so good I don’t want it to leave the classroom.
Here is a few points about our inquiry into geometric shapes;
- Students looked at a Paul Klee painting of a castle with the sun behind it. We created our own version and spoke about the shapes we included inspired by this famous work.
- Students looked at Kandinsky’s Circle in a circle work and created their own.
- Student did free water colour art on A3 paper that was then cut up and folded and sticky taped into 3D shapes.
This was such a joy to teach and the students really loved it. More info to come… probably over the summer.