February 19

Today we started our "Life Mapping" section of Storytelling. Each student thought about all of the important things that have happened to them throughout their lives such as favorite vacations, the birth of siblings, winning sports tournaments, etc. Then they created their own timeline. Next week we will be putting these events together in our Creative Teams to create a group timeline. At the end of Artspace we went outside to play Bird, Beast, Fish. A team building activity where using charades the students acted out different animals. This was a lot of fun, and a way to gain points for their creative teams.

February 17th

Artspace is back at Sunnyslope after a week of Parent-Teacher Conferences. We welcomed some new faces into Artspace. We started off the session by creating Creative Teams. We wanted to get to know each other a little better so we broke away from our usual "clicks" to meet new friends in our Creative Teams. We created names for each Creative Team. Welcoming the Eagles, the 3 Homies, the Anialaters, and The Arizona Artists. We started by creating our team banners, after each team agreed on their name of course. Then we went outside to play Ships and Sailors, a fun team building game in which each creative team had the opportunity to gain points.

Making the Pholot Collages!

February 3 & 5

This week we finished working on our Photo Collages. The kids had a lot of fun searching for photos in magazines that really told the story of who they are and what they like. A lot of kids even brought actual photos in from home. After they finished hunting down all the photos they glued them together in a nice collage. Then it was time to add glitter and fare. What a fun decorative way to express who we are!

January 29

Continuing on with our theme of Storytelling today we began working on collages. The students brought in pictures and images from home that they felt best described them. We then spent the class searching through magazines and newspapers to find other images that help tell their story. This is a project that the kids really seem to enjoy and they are having a lot of fun learning about each other. Next week we will continue these collages as we put them together and make them look FANCY!!!

January 27

Today was taught by the two Becki's (Becky and Bekki). We started off the day by each student presenting and explaining their name poem. Once that was finished we moved outside to begin a creative movement exercise. (A great idea since both instructors today are dance instructors). Since the students just finished telling the story of their name with words, they now started using creative movement to tell their story. The students made each letter of their name with their body. Then they developed a transition from one letter to the next, for example by doing a karate kick or a spin. Once they were finished they put each movement together and Voila...the story of each student told through the context of their bodies.