Pineda/Brooks
Neighborhood Scapes
Ms. Shenequa and Ms. Pineda collaborated with the students to put together their Chicago Neighborhood Scapes inspired by Jacob Lawerence's Cityscapes. Each students was given the prompt to do a drawing of their neighborhood and to change one thing that's positive that they would like to see in their neighborhood that does not exist.
The students started off with drawing and coloring in their neighborhood landscapes using pencils, markers, color pencils, and crayons. Below are images of the students work in progress neighborhood drawings. The image in the middle is Kayden Seip showing his neighborhood drawing.
After the students completed their drawings Ms. Pineda and Ms. Shenequa had the students translate their drawings onto cardboard and used oil pastels to color in their neighborhood scapes. They added accents of color using scrapes from cut-up magazines. See below how the students drawings were translated onto the cardboard.
Then Ms. Shenequa arranged the students work into a Cityscape that was installed in the schools cafeteria for the school to see.
Roll A Basquiat
Ms. Shenequa and Ms. Pineda collaborated with the students to try again the Roll A Basquiat project where the students had a die and a worksheet with instructions of which image to draw for the face, head, and body based on the number they rolled. This time we had the students use watercolor (which they never used before) with oil pastel.
Ms. Pineda laminated each of the students Roll A Basquiat paintings and Ms. Shenequa installed in the cafeteria next to their Chicago Neighborhood Scapes.
Summa Fun
Ms. Shenequa and Pineda realized after completed the Neighborhood Scapes and Roll A Basquiat projects that the students just wanted to have fun and play with various games Ms. Pineda had in the room. Building rings, homes or objects using legos, putting together a crown using magnets, and so on. They had a blast and looking forward to coming back next summer!
Ms. Pineda and Ms. Shenequa had a challenge of how to interact with the older kids because they were not as engaged as the younger kids, but when Ms. Shenequa had conversation with them and realized they wanted to play in the gym or do more physical activities we compromised. Overall, this summer was a lot of fun and the students admire and will share with one another their works in the cafeteria which makes Ms. Shenequa and Ms. Pineda excited!
Thank you! Until next summer.