HOW IS QUARTER THREE ALREADY OVER?! It's spring break! This year is flying by! Despite rain and conferences, our final week was a packed one! Sixth graders finished out the week with a math test, and submitted their archeological dig group's site plans and artifacts! There are some amazingly intricate ones, but I'm not going to post here quite yet for fear of giving it away ;) Friday included a field trip to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's program on Greco-Roman art at the Ridley Tree Education Center. First, students observed pieces from various civilizations in slideshow form, starting with ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian works, works from Ancient India and Pakistan, and finally those of Greece and Rome. Topics of conversation included how clothing and expressions were stylized, how the materials were used, and how body positions in sculpture changed through time--from the rigid Frontalism of Egyptian work to the contrapposto of Greek and Roman pieces. Second, students had the opportunity to touch and hold small, real bronze and marble sculptures from ancient Rome! They tried their hand at chiseling stone, using a tool to measure the dimensions of the face, handling different kinds of stone and learning how the wax-mold process enabled bronze work. Finally, students enjoyed creating their own pieces. They began by pressing their clay into a mold of a face, and embellished each piece to their own liking. It was an enriching field trip!
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patricia
3/25/2018 09:32:56 am
cool!
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