MEMORY POP-UP BOOK PROJECT for FAMILIES With PS22Q.3


MEMORY POP-UP BOOK PROJECT for FAMILIES

With PS22Q 

Wednesday May 11, 2021 Blog 3

Mr. Joe McDonald, who teaches grade 6 and Ms. Thea Cusumano, who teaches some of our students, joined us today as our support classroom volunteers. Thank you to both of them.

The theme for today’s lesson is “What’s behind the door? and What can I see through my window?” so we started with a game of hide and seek - virtual style! Gatik volunteered to be “in” and hide somewhere in his room. The rest of us turned our back to the camera and I counted to 20, to give him time to hide. When we turned back, Gatik's camera revealed his entire room but where was he? Students took it in turn to guess but no-one was able to find him - Gatik successfully hid beside the table.

As an example of what the students would make in class, I screen shared my door and a window page. Students volunteered ideas of what they might see or would like to see outside their door and through their window. They suggested the realistic, flowers, a bird, trash, a cat to the imaginary, a monster, a unicorn. They are quick to share their creative ideas. 

After checking they have all the materials needed Spica reminded them how to fold the base page then demonstrated how to make the door. The reveal mechanism is a “flap” which became the day’s vocabulary. Using white paper cut to size, students drew and colored the object behind the door. Gatik drew a car, while Sophie drew a unicorn. Aaryan drew a monster, Stephanie painted a beautiful sunset and Jamie glued the wrapping paper from a Herschey’s chocolate bar. Yunxi drew herself with a cat. Finally, they glued their door onto the base page and decorated the outside with a doorknob and some added their apartment number. 

Students chose a complementary colored page for their window and folded it hotdog style and then cut it in half. This created another flap but one that opened vertically rather than horizontally. Next, they used white paper, folded and cut to size to create four window panes, two of which they glued on the front of the window and two inside it. On the window panes inside the flap, students drew what they could see through their window or what they imagined. Martha and Yunxi drew birds and flowers, Flora colored a rainbow and added the sun and flowers. 

Quick to pick up skills, we were thrilled to see Sophie had used the technique she learned in last week’s class and made an accordion fold to create a pop-out from her large cat drawing. We are excited to see the children develop their motor skills and decision making and are thrilled with their inventiveness. Art offers them all this and more.




 

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