We created handmade paper together with our students. We cut used paper in small pieces, we added water, we mixed the pulp with flower petals and small leaves from our garden … and we created a very special, artistic, handmade paper!
On 12th of November, 23 pupils aged 2 ½ and 3 years old went to the park Jean Vitold close to our school. They gathered pine cones, pieces of wood, feathers, moss, leaves, branches… It was the very first time we all went outside therefore many parents came with us to look after children and enjoy the time spend together.
First of all they experienced to look at the park. They looked with frames to isolate few elements such as leaves, moss… they had look with magnifient glasses and mirrors to enlarge their own view.
When they went back to school they organized the natural elements in order to create an artistic personal creation.
Like land art we wanted to have memories of these ephemeral creations so we took photographs in order to organize an exhibition in our kiosque.
On day we shall tell the “Red Riding Hood” Story at kids of nursery near our school … Here how are getting ready!
Our garden is our set: we are good actors! (photo story)
With the robot: how many steps will the wolf made to eat the Red Riding Hood?
The labyrinth in the wood
We drew the story and we made a plastic
The story’s box: into there are the clothes to disguise
At the beginning of autumn we went to Galleana’s Park. It has been a wonderful day because we got lost in the wood. We walked on the paths, we jumped the trunks, we passed under the branches of trees, we made a quick descents …
We have been very adventurous children!
It was a great pleasure for all of us at school to make Christmas decorative crafts inspired by the mother of a student. She proposed the idea to make Christmas ornaments by using pine cones and she has also offered to work with all of our students! She brought all the necessary material and we all enjoyed creating shiny crafts in our Erasmus+ Corner!
Making paper was an awesome experience! All the students and the teachers had the chance to follow the whole procedure of tranforming used sheets of paper to new ones! The activity was led by the artist Giannis Papadopoulos -a well known painter and sculptor- specialising in making paper and creating art with it. Parents were able to watch our recycled paper drying and they were enthousiastic with their kids’ creations.
The 17th of November is the National celebration of Democracy and for that reason we prepared a special decoration in our Erasmus+ corner. Kids painted a big wall paper using the most happy colors and …words of a famous song. They also made few pieces of art combining various tools such as oil pastels, markers and pencils. Our pupils enjoy living in a democratic country
We had an amazing experience this morning at school working with Elena Giuliani, expert of ancient art with natural materials! She is the president of the cooperative ARCHEOTRAVO which is an Archaeological Parc of Travo -open air Museum- near our school and she wrote a short text about this special installation of Land Art.
The reduced forest
Land art experience for installation in the school garden
Themes
– Birth, social motivation and conceptuality of Land art; meaning and places of land art; symbols and meanings
– The concept of nature in Prehistory; art and ritual for the Earth in Prehistory; the Paleolithic “Venuses”; natural materials for art
– Landscape as a canvas of art:
a) the work created on and in the place with the materials it offers, adapting the technique to the materials available
b) inclusion in the natural place of conceptual forms, creations that for purposes must return to the state of nature that generated them, following the life cycle foreseen for all the elements (caducity and non-permanence of the work of art)
Experience
Branches of recovery from a plant destroyed by intense atmospheric events, destined for disposal, which are reused by the pupils. The colors, recalling the colors of the natural elements, cover the stems of the trees of the Forest. The definition of a graphic symbol will be the plan on the garden level where the reduced trees will be installed. The choice of the symbol will take place by voting within the class group.
We are very happy to announce you the installation of our outside Erasmus+ corner !
On 5th of November, 23 students aged 2 1/2 and 3 years old were proud to be the first ones to use it!
They were very happy to stay outside and listen to the instructions for the activities outside. Our outside corner is large enough to welcome one class later they will draw, listen to stories and even organize art exhibitions and all sort of outdoor activities.
On 5th of November 23 pupils aged 2 ½ and 3 years old explored our court yard with magnifying glasses and insects box. They try to find « gendarmes » but as autumn is all ready there, most of the insects were hidden in their house. They started to hibernate.
The door of their house has been open by our assistant to reveal to the pupils a comfortable nest made with dead earwigs, feathers, earth all sort of things necessary for the gendarmes for a long winter.
Pupils were very interested in this activity.