Week 5- Intro to Vis Arts

Welcome to Visual Arts!!!!

In the first tutorial for Visual Arts we looked at names (because everybody has one!)

Here are some examples of our work:

But a great example of an activity is the 

Name Montage!

(Montage)

The idea is to get the children to describe themselves, using their name and different art techniques (as each letter of their name has to use a different style/technique). 

It is a great activity for a teacher to do. Not only does it allow the teacher to come to a better understanding of his/her students (as they get a peek into the likes, dislikes, background and personality) but also introduces children to the idea of using a wide variety of art forms in one piece (if they haven't already)

But overall it is just great fun!

As an example here is the one I completed for class:

Can you guess what each letter means?

Week 4- Drama & Literature

Drama and Literature have an amazing relationship. One of our assignments is based on this connection. But why is ring so true?

"Whether it is a picture book, poem, novel or piece of creative writing, 

quality literature can be successfully used to stimulate children's imagination and creativity."

Literature provides a basis for children to spring from. Creativity comes in all forums, some humans can  produce creative works from nothing. However others (myself included) can become creative when working off something, a stimuli. 

Activities that could extend from this idea includes re-telling stories- such as the Selkie Story. 

During the lecture Victoria told us the story of the Man and the Selkie (Seal Women)

A Selkie

Then  we had to retell the story to the person sitting next to us. However they could interrupt with 2 instructions. Detail, in which the story teller would stop and provide more of a description, or advance, and the story would continue.  

As we were telling the story we would make it our own- hence creating our own version of the story. even though we hadn't created something from scratch, we had created our own version as the children could. accommodating for those who's creativity needs stimuli.

And for the fun of it  ( and another activity idea!) our version of the Ning Nang Nong:

Week 3- Elements of Drama

The focus of this week has been the elements of drama, Which are

Role ,Focus,Tension,Symbol,Mood,Time and Contrast.  These are great fun to explore!

One activity we undertook during the tutorial was as a group create our own wild thing, using repeated body movements.

There in itself- a simple activity- we have explored role, tension, mood, symbol and focus, all in a meaningful task that relates back to a loveable text!