Term 1 was filled with lots and lots of excitement as the students and I became familiar with each other and our new classroom!
Preschool Pre-3 students were motivated by the colors red, orange, yellow, and green; creating red people and ladybird wings, orange playdough and cats, yellow duck masks, and green crocodiles and paper mache cacti. Pre-4 students were motivated by landscapes, self-awareness, and learning about animals; creating sunflower paintings, photo portraits, house watercolors, elephant paintings, crab collages, animal masks, parade flags, and a giant jellyfish. Pre-5 students were motivated by the world around them as they learned about collaboration, layering, and animals; creating giant puzzle pieces, layered popsicles, giraffe paintings and a monster chalk drawing.
Grade 1 – 3 Grade 1 students were motivated by drawing, costuming, play acting, and public spaces; creating crowns, masks, preliminary drawings for costumes, set pieces for their National Day performance, and a collaborative woven sculpture based on Katara Cultural Village. Grade 2 students were motivated by spaces (imagined and real) and both 2D and 3D techniques; creating imagined house drawings, cardboard houses, watercolor robots, and beginning animations of their robots. Grade 3 students were motivated by kings and queens from around the globe and studying Tiny Circus animations; creating large watercolor king and queen self-portraits and beginning collaborative stop-motion animation projects.
Grade 4 and 5 Grade 4 students were motivated by architecture and ancient civilizations; creating beautiful Islamic architecture watercolors and preliminary drawings of Egyptian masks. Grade 5 students were motivated by identity, migration, and geometry; creating identity birds, boat sculptures, and geometric box drawings.
It was a fun and active first term! Hooray!