Project Log
| Date | Hours | Activity | Total Hours |
| 10/3 | 2 | Researching crafts that link to learning from the environment, as well as any stories that may correlate with this project or the setting that this activity will draw the group into. | 2 |
| 10/8 | 1 | Visited Lincoln Elementary and spoke with Karen (parent volunteer and garden coordinator) about possible projects with students and exchanged contact information to communicate about a future meeting with the entire group. | 3
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| 10/19 | 2 | Met again with Karen and fellow parent volunteer Suzie, as well as with groupmates to discuss future activites and work at Lincoln Elementary. Received a tour of the school and garden and made tentative plans to meet again next week to work. | 5 |
| 10/21 | 1 | Borrowed a boom box from the media center and downloaded/compiled music to bring to and play at the Sunday art class with Mylee and Jamie. | 6 |
| 10/23 | 4 | Attended the Sunday art class and played dj as well as assisting with the instruction and engaging in the acitivites of the class. | 10 |
| 10/26 | 3 | Helped Karen at Lincoln elementary with minor weeding and trimming, then went into the Project Room with some gourds to carve and devise an art based project that the students in one class would be able to participate in involving the use of this leftover harvest. Spoke with the school's music teacher Michael, and another Evergreen student and volunteer at the school named Alex about a possible collaboration in this project. I concluded this visit by posting a two paged note on the wetboard in the teachers lounge describing this project and asking if any teachers were interested in having me teach this art lesson in their class. | 13 |
| 10/30 | 8 | Spent four hours buying groceries and making cookies ("Mexican Wedding Cakes" and a cream cheese oreo kind) for the art class I would help teach later in the day, which was themed for Halloween. We went on a nature walk and jumped in the leaves, then later worked in the nature journals, ate the snacks (some of which I had provided), and the kids made clay pots out of air drying clay. | 21 |
| 10/28 | 2 | I attended the open mic hosted by The Writer's Guild blended with the Written Word workshop. | 23 |
| 11/6 | 4 | Assisted with teaching the art class with Mylee and Jamie, where those who had made clay pots each arranged dirt and planted seeds inside of their pot, and we went out on a nature walk. (I provided music) | 27
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| 11/13 | 6 | I went with Mylee, Jamie and the kids from our Sunday art program to the Written Word workshop. Later, Jamie and I went to the computer center and researched methods of using paper mache' and making sculptures out of recycled garbage, so that we may teach a lesson on this at the next Sunday art class (in two weeks). |
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| 11/15 | 1 | I finally received a call from two interested parties at Lincoln, in the same day. I spoke with Susan, of the early release program at Lincoln Elementary, explained the project and made a time to meet the next day. Later I recieved a call from a 5th grade teacher at Lincoln named Marti, who was also very interested, and who I made a time to meet with before I met with Susan on the following day. |
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| 11/16 | 6 | I spent this morning making my own gourd chimes/mobile using a gourd I had cut, dug out and made holes in and which Karen had dried in her dehydrator for me. When I was finished, I went to Lincoln Elementary and met with Marti and showed her my work as well as discussed the probabbility of maing this a two part workshop with her class and made tentative plans to complete this project in the first week of December. I then met with Susan and brainstormed for the newsletter that would be sent out to parents of the schools' students explaining the workshops offered for the early release program, and agreed to teach the chime making class with gourds on December 9th. I also selected ten gourds from the greenhouse and took them home to prepare to be dried in Karen's dehydrator so that they would be ready for the kids in the early release program to work with in the one part program. |
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| 11/16-11/17 | 6 | I spent both of these nights cutting the tops off of ten gourds, spooning and scraping out the insides, and digging carefully thought out holes along the rims of these hollowed out areas so that they may be strung with different objects that the attendees of the Early Release Program decide upon. |
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| 11/18 | 3 | I collected the ten gourds off of my bedroom heater, packed them up and took them to the greenhouse at Lincoln Elementary for Karen to pick up and put in her dehydrator. Later this night I mixed a flour paste and made a small paper mache sculpture using an empty can in the recycling bin, along with newspapers and branches from my front yard, to better understand what the lesson plan with Jamie would entail. |
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| 11/26 | 2 | I spent this time shopping for items Jamie and I would need to teach the art class the next day, including scissors, paint, flour, glue, string, and snacks. | 51 |
| 11/27 | 7 | I prepared all of the odds and ends I had collected for this lesson from around the house where I live, and picked through our recycling bin. I arrived early at the classroom where the art class takes place, and set up the room with Jamie, as well as setting up the music to play on my laptop. We began the class by taking everyone on a nature walk, passed out snack and explained the project. I showed everyone how to make the flower paste mixture and had everyone stick their hands in a bowl of it and get a feel for how thick the mixture should be. Then we had everyone just go at it and create their sculptures. Later, when everyone left, we cleaned up all the remaining goop, paint and dirt that had collected on the chairs and floor. | 58 |
| 11/28 | 2 | I spent these two hours in the computer center updating this website. | 60 |
