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This semester I began an internship at the Spiva Center for the Arts in Joplin, MO. During my initial two-hour training session, I was told we (the interns/volunteers) would be doing two projects with the many third-graders that would be attending on separate days. In the first, the students would trace and cut out a mason jar template to which they would be creating their very own world inside. This lesson focused on landscape, so we were asked to teach or remind them of the concepts of foreground, middle ground, and background, and instruct them to use them in their drawings. The coordinator, Karalee, then had us make our own mason worlds to use as examples.
The second project was a collaborative project in *whispered* secret room. For it, students would be drawing pictures, realistic or not, on different colored circles based of the school they attended. Once they had finished that, they would use a handy piece of double-sided sticky tape to attach them to the large, black pieces of paper we had covered the walls with. We, as the volunteers, were then asked to paint giant white trees on the paper so, in the end, it would look like an awesome, colorful forest! Let me just be honest, it was rad!
With all the potential I saw in these projects, I was so excited to start my first day!
The second project was a collaborative project in *whispered* secret room. For it, students would be drawing pictures, realistic or not, on different colored circles based of the school they attended. Once they had finished that, they would use a handy piece of double-sided sticky tape to attach them to the large, black pieces of paper we had covered the walls with. We, as the volunteers, were then asked to paint giant white trees on the paper so, in the end, it would look like an awesome, colorful forest! Let me just be honest, it was rad!
With all the potential I saw in these projects, I was so excited to start my first day!