Visual Diary project @ HCS Bensonhurst Senior Center.2
VISUAL DIARY Project Blog 2 5/06/2021
Karen initiated the warmup today with her own arm exercise routine which everyone followed. As each student then took it in turn to lead the class with their own routine, we learnt new exercises for our face, head, waist, legs, and hands.
Our seniors are wonderful students who eagerly embrace homework, in fact they request it! We shared their Daily Activity drawings, completed after last weeks’ lesson in which they documented some everyday occurrences. So Sim drew her neighbor’s cat on the roof and a second drawing of relaxing while listening to music with a cup of tea and a snack. Susanna, who is unable to join our class due to her grandmotherly duties, always watches the video and completes the tasks. She drew a series of sketches showing her as a girl playing sports, such as badminton, bicycling, skiing and dancing. She told us that she was a very active child especially with four brothers. Her daily activity is shopping so she drew herself pushing a trolley noting the COVID mandate of 6 feet distance. Ru Ping also exercises regularly and drew herself with clouds beneath her and lines suggesting energy above. Her second drawing was in her yard.
Stella drew two views of watering her vegetable patch with a very long hose. Julisa created a dialogue in her drawings, depicting the message of love she sent to her brother who received it in his hospital bed. He is drawn holding a giant cell phone on which Julisa has written the message.
Sook Fong drew a cat on the fence and another of her walking in her yard, getting exercise. Jing Wei’s drawings showed her listening to music and walking by the seaside with gulls flying in the background. Pun documented the heavy winds last night which knocked the pears from the trees, so there will be “no pears to eat this year”. Her second drawing is from her imagination, relaxing in a hammock strung between two palm trees.
Hui Fen documented her morning routine, drawing herself in bed, the clock set at 8am when she gets up and what she eats for breakfast. Lao Yu drew herself watering the garden adding, “in Spring the flowers in our small garden begin to sprout and grow”. She imagined what they will look like when they bloom.
The students cut out a puppet template and put its joints together using brass fasteners. They used this puppet as a model to sketch poses, practicing in the back of their sketch book. Thinking of the exercises shared at the beginning of class they created a 1-2-3 routine with the puppet, which they drew. Finally, they thought of a movement they wished they could do but that the puppet could. They are encouraged to complete this drawing for homework and to add a simple graphic image along with a few descriptive words.
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