This is our first remote learning lesson on pattern and design. Below are examples of some of the amazing student artwork . These pictures are visual memories of special moments in their lives that they remember before the virus happened. The visual memories were centered around the idea of gratitude for what we have experienced and what we still have today.
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Coaster Fundraiser for the Inspirational Scholarship Fund 2020 The students from various private and public high schools came to volunteer their time to create these beautiful coasters that will be sold to raise money for our future scholarship fund. This is our third fund raiser project which was created from recycled lids and donations of art materials. I want to thank all the students from McKean High School, Padua High School, Cab Calloway High School, Salesianum High School and St. Mark's High School for their artistic talents and generous spirit of giving to others. This is our second year doing an art project for service. The students and I have collected door stops to sell in order to raise money for a future scholarship fund that will help support graduates of Baltz Elementary School in their dreams of studying art in college. This year we had many volunteers from local high schools and middle schools devote service hours to this project. It has been a great pleasure to work with the outstanding students of Salesianum, Padua, Cab Calloway, and A.I. middle school as we pursue this endeavor. Without the help of Delcastle High School, this year's project would not have been possible. The high school donated 100 door stops for us to paint. Beyond just a support for their futures, having these students involved has provided great role models for my students and shown them just how much people care. Respect, Responsibility and Readiness is the foundation of our school's positive behavior support program. Through this behavior program we teach our students that their actions effect not only themselves but also their fellow students and the world around them. This program inspired me to collaborate with our school counselor to create a school-wide project to help our students realize this motto through their artwork. During this project the student's each painted a rock with a symbol that represented how they wanted to be seen by the world. I encouraged my students as they were working to think about how they want to be remembered and who they want to become as a person. To motivate their artwork we connected the project back to the use of symbols in cave-art and petroglyphs . Cave men and women painted things that were important to them and their survival. They believed that if they could capture the essence of the animals that they hunted in their paintings they would have more success out on the hunt. Just like the cave-men my students were searching for their futures and trying to capture the essence of who they are and who they want to be in their artwork. At the end of the project the rocks will be on display as an installation in the Baltz Elementary School Art Show on May 21st from 5:30-8:30. Another initiative the counseling program has is "Fill Your Bucket," which encourages the students to do random acts of kindness to make other people's days better. We connected this concept to the You Rock Kindness Project through a schoolwide classroom school counseling lesson based on the book, Each Kindness by E.B. Lewis. It is a beautifully written story about bullying/exclusion, missed opportunities to be kind to others, the power of kindness, and the far reaching effects of kindness. After reading and discussing the story with each class, each class was given a You Rock Kindness rock. Each week students and teachers will discuss acts of kindness that they witnessed during the week. One person will be recognized for his/her act of kindness and will get to proudly display the You Rock on their desk throughout the week. Discussions about how the classroom was a better place because of the kind act will then follow. Students will begin to see the kindness ripples that happen from just one act of kindness. As an outreach project we are making additional rocks to place on the desks of teachers and administrators. I hope through this project to make a lasting impact on both my students and the community that will show them how to do what's right, think of others, and be the person they want to be one day. We all need to hold onto our own "rocks" always. |
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