Week 5

This week we spent time in Writer’s Workshop making the final edits to our poems and then having a special 2 hour long publishing session where the poems of their choice were turned into visual art. Most Eagles chose canvas and watercolors or paint to publish their poems this session. Some wrote the whole poem down on the canvas, some wrote pieces, and some just captured the spirit of the poem on their canvas.

We continued with art this week doing a relief of the Coroca Valley which is home to the Quindio Wax Palm, Colombia’s national tree. These are the tallest palms in the world and can grow up to 197 feet! In this project, air dry clay is used to form a relief (a type of sculpture that is carved into a semi-flat surface or wall). We used tiny twigs to form the steep mountains and the soaring Wax Palms, and tempera paint to add the color of the landscape.

The most challenging part of our week was the multiple planning and preparation sessions for our very first Exhibition as well as hosting it. We had multiple committees, every Eagle had a job, and the Exhibition was ultimately executed well. We had a few hiccups, of course, like not all of our Eagle Panel committee getting to participate in the panel, but the Eagles did a great job coming together to show their parents all of the hard work they have done over the last 5 weeks.

My favorite parts of the Exhibition were showing our parents the LipDub video and the reading and signing of the Community Contract. Each Eagle selected a line that meant something to them, read that line of the contract, and shared what it meant to themselves and to the studio as a whole. That was some of our Eagles' first time speaking in front of a crowd and they all did an amazing job!

Next week we take a week off of school and then we come back together to focus on Entrepreneurship!