Community Class:
Visual Arts
(English and Art Without of Barries)
Rachel Stempel, Teacher
Victoria Mendoza, Teaching Artist
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Rachel Stempel & Victoria Mendoza,
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Class Information: English and Art Without of Barriers.
Grade Levels: Parent Program
Class Schedule (days/times): Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00PM to 3:00 PM
Academic content:
Art forms: Visual Art and Fiber Art
Big Idea:
We began this term with a new governing idea. This time we wanted to make art with “found” objects. Without funds for materials we collected things found in nature or items thrown away; leaves, sticks, seeds, or shells. We loved our creations as much as we would have loved art made from precious stones. Leaves, pistachio shells, and sunflower seeds became garden scenes, animals, flowers and an evening dress!
Inquiry Question:
As the Spring Session progressed we found we were helping each other: students became teachers and teachers were learners. Perhaps it was because learning to use the punch needle was so challenging. It took a lot of patience to learn how hard to "punch." A wrong move and the whole project could unravel. Finally one by one we learned from each other. Now a few weeks later that same experience has made its way to English lessons too. Teaching someone else something helps to "cement" knowledge. We have been practicing verbs for years. There are verbs that add "ed" and others that become different words (is-was). So it was absolutely rewarding to watch student A explaining verb tenses to student B. She approached the concept like a Professional!
Botanical Art / Arte Botanico
Botanical Art / Arte Botanico
Botanical art consists of using dry tree leaves, flowers, seeds, and everything that nature offers us, to use our creativity, whether forming people, animals, landscapes, and countless forms, this is left to your imagination and creativity.
Guadalupe Luna
Rachel Stempel
Patricia Hernandez
Victoria Mendoza
Punch needle embroidery is a form of embroidery that's also related to rug hooking. This technique goes back hundreds or maybe even thousands of years, but it has remained popular and takes on looks from primitive to modern, and there are so many patterns and kits to choose from. Instead of stitching through the fabric, punch needle pushes thread or yarn into the fabric, while keeping the needle on the surface.
The result of punch needle embroidering is a highly textured design made of loops that shows off its connection to rug making. Like any craft, punch needle takes some practice to get the best results. But after finding the right movements and rhythm, it goes quickly so you can fill a large area in a jiffy!
We decided to make the CAPE acronym in the punch needle technique and what it represents for our students, and they decided to donate their project to CAPE. In gratitude for the program they bring to the parent community.
Decidimos hacer las siglas de CAPE en la tecnica punch needle y lo que representa para nuestras estudiantes, y decidieron donar su proyecto a CAPE. En agradecimiento por el programa que traen para la comunidad de los padres.
We had a trip to the CAPE'S Gallery on April 15th and we had a lot of fun, plus we liked seeing all the art made by the children from different schools and the parents too. The parents of the Waters School made some figures with clay and we had fun doing it together with the children.
Tuvimos un viaje a la Galeria de CAPE el dia 15 de Abril y nos divertimos mucho, ademas nos gusto ver todo el arte que hacen los niños de diferentes escuelas y los padres tambien. Los padre de la Escuela Waters hicieron unas figuras con plastilina y nos divertimos haciendolo junto con los niños.
We had a much anticipated visit to the Chicago Botanic Garden's Orchid Show on March 23 rd. Fifteen class and family members gathered in the parking lot and marched in together. From the first display that looked like a giant orchid but was made from hundreds of individual orchids to several rooms of orchids in every color, we tried to capture the beauty of the flowers and the inventiveness or the flower arrangers. Hoping to preserve the moment, we took many photos knowing we'd be recreating the orchids in some fashion as our next art work. See our punch needle orchids!
El 23 de marzo tuvimos una visita muy esperada al Espectáculo de Orquídeas del Jardín Botánico de Chicago. Quince miembros de la clase y de la familia se reunieron en el estacionamiento y marcharon juntos. Desde la primera exhibición que parecía una orquídea gigante pero estaba hecha con cientos de orquídeas individuales hasta varias salas de orquídeas en todos los colores, tratamos de capturar la belleza de las flores y la inventiva de los arreglos florales. Con la esperanza de preservar el momento, tomamos muchas fotos sabiendo que estaríamos recreando las orquídeas de alguna manera como nuestra próxima obra de arte. ¡Vea nuestras orquídeas punzonadas!
A paragraph on our favorite lesson Our favorite English class this term because we laughed a lot was the class titled, "onomatopoeia," words that sound like what they mean; achoo, bang, crash, tweet, and woof. The list is endless and including them in our writing where appropriate adds color to our prose. It was fun to compare them to the Spanish word. A dog says " bow-wow" in English and ----- in Spanish gouf - gouf.
Un párrafo sobre nuestra lección favorita Nuestra clase de inglés favorita este trimestre porque nos reímos mucho fue la clase titulada "onomatopeya", palabras que suenan como lo que significan; achoo, bang, crash, tweet y guau. La lista es interminable e incluirlos en nuestra escritura cuando corresponda agrega color a nuestra prosa. Fue divertido compararlos con la palabra española. Un perro dice "bow-wow" en inglés y en español guof -guof.
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