Project Paint aLive
Members:
Jiang Wensen
Wang Kaiyuan
Wong Qi Han
Yang Yuxin
Zhu Dao Yuan
You Siang Lin
Special Thanks to:
Teacher Mentor
Mr Robert Tan, Wengsoon Private Limited
Mr Anderson Tan, En Community Services
Teacher John, SCAS
Teacher Loo Yean Kwan, SCAS
Zunaidah bte Shahul Hamid, Principal, SCAS
SCAS
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
For the past couple of weeks, we have been trying with many different things to do in our lesson. We abandoned the use of brushes and instead, we turned to paper prints, to leaf prints and to blow art. This week, we once again tried a new medium of art known as "Marbling art".
To create a marbling art, we have to fill a bucket with water to a height of around 2-3cm. We put a few piece of floaters (a type of paper that floats) onto the surface of the water and then add a few drops of paint onto the floater and allow the paint to spread over the water surface. The children will press pieces of drawing block onto the water surface to create unique patterns.
In this lesson, we noticed that some of the children took up more initiative, especially Shalih who add the drop of paints onto the floater by himself and he managed to drop them precisely onto the floaters. This is no easy feat because for many of them, it is very hard to complete tasks which ask for precision.
As this lesson could not be taught through demonstrations on the white board (unlike the other lessons where we can stick the painting onto the board), we have to teach the children individually. This method of teaching is slower because we have to repeat ourselves various time, therefore it was unwise to do the same for the other lessons. Also, as the children have always paid attention to us, individual teaching do not actually affect their level of enthusiasm of attentiveness.
The children however did find this lesson the most intriguing and asked for more even as time ran out.
Next week, we will return with mosaic art and we hope that they would find it equally interesting.
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